I was having serious difficulty in a university math class, having taken a test while considerably under the weather (and it not being a class I was doing well in anyway)… and I told the prof that I had to know it was POSSIBLE for me to get at least a B, else I had to drop before the deadline. He promised me that if I was willing to do some extra credit work, he would guarantee it. I then got a low grade on the NEXT midterm. But he made good on his promise and handed twenty questions to the class, explaining that they were pure extra credit. I put my heart and soul into it and managed to finish 14 of the 20, (one of them, only by assuming a prior one was proven, which I could not do). He gave me an ‘A’… and told me that the work of making and then grading the test was enough to make him swear off giving extra credit forever after.
I’m pretty sure that it was enough to make me swear off taking them, too.
I think my Geometry teacher felt sorry for me and that’s why he gave me a C. The only C I’d ever gotten in any class. And I graduated on the Honor Roll.
Sometimes when my students would ask for “extra credit”, what they were really asking for was (what I called) “instead-of credit” – instead of doing what they should have done in the first place.
I had a professor tell us that only God could earn an A in his classes and the best we could reasonably expect was a C. Since this was a remote program that our company had arranged with the college and we were all working adults attending this night school, we weren’t afraid to speak up. He held fast to his position and we had the dean send us a different professor.
Had lots of students like that lad. Some really good minds were content with average grades. But also some of average intelligence, [whatever the heck that means], but who became outstanding performers. Frustrating to understand the former but loved the latter.
I remember one particular class in grad school – the prof wasn’t one I learned well from and there were different pieces of the content that I struggled with including software not working, etc. which made the class somewhat frustrating. We got to the end of the class and the last homework was one of those ill defined time sink sort of things that I really, really had no interest in doing. The prof posted our grades early because he was going to be teaching somewhere in Europe over the summer and I discovered I was going to get a B. He told me I could improve my grade if I did the last homework … and I respectfully declined, took my B and went back to my day job.
The only “extra credits” I remember was an English teacher who gave them out, for memorizing passages from Shakespeare’s plays. I didn’t need them, but I liked the plays and did the passages I liked the best.
Concretionist about 3 years ago
I was having serious difficulty in a university math class, having taken a test while considerably under the weather (and it not being a class I was doing well in anyway)… and I told the prof that I had to know it was POSSIBLE for me to get at least a B, else I had to drop before the deadline. He promised me that if I was willing to do some extra credit work, he would guarantee it. I then got a low grade on the NEXT midterm. But he made good on his promise and handed twenty questions to the class, explaining that they were pure extra credit. I put my heart and soul into it and managed to finish 14 of the 20, (one of them, only by assuming a prior one was proven, which I could not do). He gave me an ‘A’… and told me that the work of making and then grading the test was enough to make him swear off giving extra credit forever after.
I’m pretty sure that it was enough to make me swear off taking them, too.
Bilan about 3 years ago
He’s not going to pass if he doesn’t do something about those red eyes.
rekam Premium Member about 3 years ago
I think my Geometry teacher felt sorry for me and that’s why he gave me a C. The only C I’d ever gotten in any class. And I graduated on the Honor Roll.
whahoppened about 3 years ago
AW, he couldn’t think of a quick come-back!
Doug K about 3 years ago
Sometimes when my students would ask for “extra credit”, what they were really asking for was (what I called) “instead-of credit” – instead of doing what they should have done in the first place.
Bill The Nuke about 3 years ago
I had a professor tell us that only God could earn an A in his classes and the best we could reasonably expect was a C. Since this was a remote program that our company had arranged with the college and we were all working adults attending this night school, we weren’t afraid to speak up. He held fast to his position and we had the dean send us a different professor.
sandpiper about 3 years ago
Had lots of students like that lad. Some really good minds were content with average grades. But also some of average intelligence, [whatever the heck that means], but who became outstanding performers. Frustrating to understand the former but loved the latter.
ERBEN2 about 3 years ago
The rolling eyes in panel three are precious .
Thinkingblade about 3 years ago
I remember one particular class in grad school – the prof wasn’t one I learned well from and there were different pieces of the content that I struggled with including software not working, etc. which made the class somewhat frustrating. We got to the end of the class and the last homework was one of those ill defined time sink sort of things that I really, really had no interest in doing. The prof posted our grades early because he was going to be teaching somewhere in Europe over the summer and I discovered I was going to get a B. He told me I could improve my grade if I did the last homework … and I respectfully declined, took my B and went back to my day job.
COL Crash about 3 years ago
Back in College we used to say “You can’t spell credit without a D”.
christelisbetty about 3 years ago
The only “extra credits” I remember was an English teacher who gave them out, for memorizing passages from Shakespeare’s plays. I didn’t need them, but I liked the plays and did the passages I liked the best.
B.D. about 3 years ago
There are only two types of student who ask for extra credit, those that don’t need it and those that won’t do it.