<p>So I've noticed that a lot of professors, especially the ones in upper division courses, don't really read my papers or final projects that get submitted by the end of class. I don't even get my grades for them back, and sometimes I've noticed that I've gotten high grades even when my final projects were extremely mediocre (although class performance was better in the quarter). </p>
<p>There are only a few days between the due date for final projects and the date they have to submit grades, and they have to do it for many students. So it's totally understandable. But has anyone else seemed to notice this a lot? Especially in the more informal classes? Sometimes the professors are so delayed in grading psets (especially when they don't have TAs) that they end up with lots of ungraded stuff at the end of class. Again though, this seems to apply mostly for the informal classes.</p>
<p>In my experience most professors don’t announce the grades for the final exams or projects. However, every time I asked they could tell me how I did, so I do think that professors usually grade end-of-semester assignments.</p>
<p>I only suspect a single instance of a professor not grading a significant part of our work. He returned assignments from weeks 2-3 of the semester on the very last day of classes, and he never recorded project grades from the second half of the semester online. He did grade the final exam though.</p>
<p>In my experience it is. had this one professor who made us write a 12 page research paper. Im sure he didnt read it for everyone in the class to get an A on it</p>
<p>I’ve had several professors/TA’s participate in this kind of behavior. One of my professors simply gave completion grades for all the essays he assigned, though he never specifically mentioned this policy in the syllabus. The class was large, well if you count 70 students as large, and I don’t think he wanted to be bothered. He wanted us to write, but he didn’t want to read. So he hedged. </p>
<p>I think this sort of problem (or convenience depending on how you look at it) usually occurs at large public schools.</p>
<p>I don’t think you need someone to look after you. If you knew you did mediocre- well, redo the work and make sure its up to par to your standards. Its easier said than done- there’s a lot of distractions.</p>
<p>In my business law class, the professor assigns problems from the book and expects us to hand them in, but all she does is give them next class with a check mark.</p>
<p>It happens, but I find such behavior to be rare.</p>
<p>Just an anecdote, but I worked hard on an English paper final, and went back after semester grades were posted to ask why it didn’t bring my grade up. Prof admitted that he hadn’t read the papers. Unfortunately, this was as a freshman, so my view of profs was unfairly and incorrectly tainted throughout college. He was young then, is still teaching at the same school 40 years later, rated 3.5 overall by ratemyprofessors.com.</p>
<p>i had that just happen to me also where the teachers just skims through the paper. Though, It worked out for me since I noticed major errors on it when i got it back. </p>
<p>Some teachers are more thorough.Others are not. Every teacher is different.</p>
<p>Only classes that seemed to happen for me was liberal arts classes. All of my engineering and science classes the graded exams would be sitting outside of their door by the time grades were due.</p>