<p>Some professors don't give extra credit, and some do. What have your experiences been like? What are some strict/easy/weird policies you've encountered?</p>
<p>I’ve never gotten extra credit - ever. </p>
<p>Strictest = no curve, hard class, no extra credit :D</p>
<p>Never been offered an opprtunity for extra credit. Most professors explicity include in the syllabus ‘don’t ask me for EC.’</p>
<p>My current physics professor offers up 10% in extra credit for clicker participation. A previous ochem professor had extra credit problems on his tests. I wrote short essays for a psychology class for extra credit as well. You could also get extra credit for that class by participating in a research study.</p>
<p>Some of my son’s science courses had extra credit questions in the lectures. In some classes, they were questions from current events. In some classes, it was from knowledge later in the course (you could get it from reading ahead in the textbook). In some cases it was stuff from outside the course (one science professor asked questions about historical math and science people). One economic course that he took had EC for current events - he would ask what happened today and you’d have to give a tidbit from the news like First Times Unemployment Claims or the ISM number or some new stimulus program in China.</p>
<p>In an English class we had the opportunity to watch a movie related to something we were reading and write a 1-page paper connecting them (she told us the movie, it couldn’t just be anything.)</p>
<p>In another class we could go to some lectures from visiting speakers throughout the semester. I don’t remember if that was extra credit or just to make up assignments, though.</p>
<p>Oh and in a cinema class we could go downtown to watch a movie screening and write a short review (this was worth like 50 extra points out of 1000 which was amazing).</p>
<p>I’ve had one or two professors give extra credit by giving clicker quizzes, where selecting a correct answer on your clicker counts as either 1 or 2 points, depending on the professor, and a wrong answer ranges from 0.5-1.5 points for effort, again depending on the professor.</p>
<p>Interesting! I’ve had extra credit presented through attending lectures, watching movies for cinema class, and for winning little games in class. Never had a clicker quiz, though.</p>
<p>In my human anatomy and other kinesiology courses, you could get bonus by taking part in 5ks or other running events. For a chemistry class of mine, you could get bonus by going to an elementary or high school and teaching a chemistry lesson.</p>
<p>In my intro chem class last semester, my teacher would give a 4-6 % bump to our test grades if we did random things like attending a chemistry demonstration day that he was hosting. Another time, he had us bring in canned goods for a food drive for that same percentage bump on our tests. Blatant grade inflation, but I’ll take it. And yes, he allowed the grades to go over 100% if you aced the test and did what was needed for extra credit.</p>
<p>The only extra credit I have ever been offered were things like bonus questions on exams about the readings we had to do. Other than that there isn’t any. Most of my profs say don’t ask for it because they won’t give it. Personally I agree, I’m in upper level classes, if you can’t get a good grade if with opportunities you are given you need to look at what you are doing not ask for more points.</p>
<p>I’ve had professors occasionally put an extra credit on exams, not often though. And sometimes they give an extra hard question that gives a few points. </p>
<p>If you come the day before a break where most people skip, professors sometimes give hints at what is on the test. They also might be more lenient if they know you were there and have a borderline grade, sometimes.</p>
<p>The strictest would probably be intro psych, I hear it is curved down. (Never took it to confirm the rumor, just heard a lot of complaints.)</p>
<p>My Intro to IR professor last semester offered extra credit by having us write 2-3 page papers on articles and events we were ‘required’ to go to. My anthropology professor gave us extra credit by going to public events (i.e. school board meetings), writing papers on different cultures, and interviewing someone from a foreign country and writing about it.
My microecon prof this semester gives us extra credit on exams for writing what new album he’s gonna purchase (he tells us what album he’ll buy a few days before each exam).</p>
<p>My multivariable calculus professor used to include an extra credit questions at the end of each exam. It was always a proof and I don’t think anyone ever got full credit.</p>