<p>ok, so in Spanish we had this project. My partner (a girl who had already taken the class earlier in the year but failed, so she was taking it again) said she would take it home and finish it. I said to myself, "she'll do it right, shes already done it once"....wrong....</p>
<p>When we got it back we got an 76 on it. She didnt spell words right, no accents at all and she didnt even follow the directions!</p>
<p>So from now on....ill do the work that I know will be good and not leave it to someone else...thanks to her, I have an 89 in that class now..</p>
<p>Always leave yourself enough time to review it yourself when you are turning something in for a grade....you are putting your fate into someone else's hands.</p>
<p>I always choose a partner I know I can trust, and then we split the work evenly. We usually do it together or split an even share and each of us takes our part home.</p>
<p>If it's assigned, I usually give my partner something trivial to work on and I'll try to control-freak (yes, I used a noun as a verb) the whole thing.</p>
<p>I do most if not all of the work myself so that no problems will arise with the project; most of the time, they are easily doable by one person.</p>
<p>This is why I end up doing the biology / chemistry / physics labs by myself. I don't mind the extra work, actually, because the test covers this, so it's good practice. Sometimes, I split it with trustable lab buddies and they e-mail everything to me, so I get to compile and edit answers.</p>
<p>yeah next time choose people who u can definitely rely on. and dont let one person do all the work because its so unfair. for me, i choose people whom i know i can trust and who will do the work and we get the A's</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm a paranoid control freak when it comes to group projects. Unless I know the people in my group can be trusted to get work done on time, I usually end up splitting the work so that I get the bulk of the work. Or I make everyone give their stuff to me so that I can review it all.</p>
<p>Last year in APUSH, we had to make a group newspaper on one chapter. There were two other people in my group, and one of them did good work. But the other one I was worried about, so I asked him to email me the articles that he was supposed to write. I emailed him with specific instructions on the appearance of the article, since I wanted everything to be coordinated.</p>
<p>So, he emailed me his article, and I was floored. Not only did he not follow the email that I sent (which he had most certainly got), but his article was poorly written and riddled with grammar mistakes. The information was poorly put together, and it was a disaster. So I "edited" his articles, essentially rewriting them but trying to make them look like his work.</p>
<p>Not every group project is like that, but I usually do end up doing the majority of the work. I guess I bring it upon myself, being the type of person that I am.</p>
<p>Well if you go to my school, you'll want to do the assignments yourself for your own sake. Just give them simple instructions like: buy construction paper by tomorrow, or your share of the material cost is $8.</p>
<p>haha. unless my group members are people I know who are as competent as I am, I really wouldn't let them too much. I assign jobs to group members based on how much I know they can do.</p>
<p>and they end up trusting me enough to take the project home to finish -- mainly because I have a good track record of not letting my (and thus, their) grades sink.</p>
<p>Teachers always get ****ed at me because when they say pick groups, I say I am alone....they nag me about it sometimes because its more for them to grade, but I hate when they put us in groups...like for bio, my group member haven't even taken any temperature or pH etc measures and thats part of what the whole project is while I've done most of the rest of the parts.....I always insist on collating the material though...so I can see it...most people like to put the minimum thought into their answers...like a question with a Yes-No answer, they just put Yes. or No. without any explanation, pictures, etc and it ticks me off</p>
<p>I'm in a CP Spanish class (bummer..it was because my last year span. teacher didn't know what she was talking about regarding classes) and the majority of the class dosen't care at all about their grades so when we have to do group activites, 99% of them just talk and wing the assignment. When we work in groups, I usually end up doing most of the stuff since a) they usually don't do anything b) even if they do, I tell them I'm doing it, no matter what. My grade > whether they get to do anything.</p>
<p>I hate group work. Even when I get to pick my group or partner, and I pick the seemingly most realible person (or people), someone always screws up. And I have yet to partake in a group project where I didn't end up doing the bulk of the work, it's so frustrating.
Good advice on not letting someone take a project home. If work needs to be done out of school, I usually insist that we work on it after school, or at someone's house, so that you don't rest you're whole grade on incompetant people.
Personally, I think that group work is so ridiculous. I mean I'm okay working with other people, but I think that everyone should get individual grades. In my Spanish class pretty much everything is done with partners; oral quizzes, projects (that count as test grades). Sometimes you get lucky with a good partner, but that happens quite rarely.</p>