<p>I started this on another thread, but nobody understood what I was trying to say.</p>
<p>The grading police for one of my classes is if you miss one of the three exams (not counting the final), the final exam grade will replace that grade. The part that doesn't make sense is that the lowest exam grade will not be replaced by the final.</p>
<p>Exam 1:0 (It is replaced by an 80)
Exam 2:80
Exam 3:80
Final:80
FINAL GRADE: 80%</p>
<p>The point I am trying to make is that it is better to just skip the exam if you're not confident enought to take it, than to just take it and see how you do. Does anybody else think that the policy doesn't make sense?</p>
<p>Does anybody else agree or does anyone disagree with me?</p>
<p>Well most finals are usually more comprehensive and therefore more difficult to make a good grade on. So as you have no way of knowing how well you would do in the final in general I would say it is rather risky to skip a non final exam. </p>
<p>Using your figures but switching them a bit</p>
<p>Yeah it does make sense to just skip it. But that puts an undue amount of pressure to do well on the final which will be much harder than that test due to it having material you never completely learned from the test you skipped, and everything else. If you do bad your more ****ed than before. But its your choice on what to do.</p>
<p>Ugh, seriously stop posting about this if you are never going to listen to what people say!!</p>
<p>You don't know that you will do good on the final. Your counting your chickens before they hatch AND your putting all your eggs in one basket at the same time.</p>
<p>i've seen situations like this in several of my classes. but usually they don't explicitly say it. usually it's:</p>
<p>a) no make up exams
b) BUT if you have to miss an exam for some reason (sickness, family emergency, pre-planned event, etc), the next exam or the final will double count for the one you missed (i.e. that test grade is copied over in place of your missed test)</p>
<p>and generally speaking, if you don't have a reason other than those listed above, you don't qualify to have a test double counted...i dont know what's exactly the case with your professor or if a gamble like that is cool with him/her, but i would generally say just take the test...</p>
<p>I've heard of policies where you can drop your lowest exam grade and replace it with the final (so if you miss one then that's your lowest, e.g. 0) but never this strange situation where if you take it the score sticks but if you skip then you can replace it later... that doesn't make any sense to me.</p>
<p>well one time a German Shepherd Police dog bit an interviewer because he leaned too close to his officer. The police man said its POLICY for the dog to bite if you lean in like that....the dog was not scolded because it was not against his POLICY...however the interviewer tried suing claiming the dog was disobeying racial POLICIES because he was African American. The 25$k German Shepherd was then put down due to a racial relations infraction POLICY..the court found out he had snapped at a black Labrador in the past, proving the dog disobeyed racial POLICIES.</p>
<p>If the point of this policy was to provide a possible grade boost to people who'd had a bad exam, then no, it wouldn't make sense. But that isn't the point. It's just protocol for missing an exam. You're reading too much into it. If you want to gamble with your grade, then do so, but know that that's what you'll be doing. </p>
<p>People in your last thread did seem to understand your argument, they just didn't agree that the professor had a responsibility to change the policy.</p>
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well one time a German Shepherd Police dog bit an interviewer because he leaned too close to his officer. The police man said its POLICY for the dog to bite if you lean in like that....the dog was not scolded because it was not against his POLICY...however the interviewer tried suing claiming the dog was disobeying racial POLICIES because he was African American. The 25$k German Shepherd was then put down due to a racial relations infraction POLICY..the court found out he had snapped at a black Labrador in the past, proving the dog disobeyed racial POLICIES.