Still waiting

Feedback is pretty important to a college student. Timely feedback even more so. For the most part the educational/administrative cogs grind fairly smoothly and we get results within a reasonable cycle.

But I'm still awaiting grades on two of the three mid-terms I took more than a week ago. It's very frustrating... not knowing.

We've been told that everyone did very poorly on the accounting exam - so poorly they're still trying to figure out what to do about it. It's bad enough that a curve wouldn't even help most people. I heard a rumor that only three students out of 1200 got an A! Don't know how true that is. Applying my profound knowledge of probabilities from stats class, the likelihood of me being one of those possibly fictional three is... ummm... slim! Heck, at this point a B appears to be a wonderful grade.

Evidently (rumor again), last year someone stole the exam they used for several years in Accounting 200, so they had to invent a new one. The stolen test was one of those scantron thingies (remember those where you use a #2 pencil to color in the circle?) that could be graded by machine. I far prefer the kind we took which was a combination of multiple choice and worksheet. Given 20 categories and amounts of a fictional account, we had to create a trial balance, income statement, retained earnings, and balance sheet. Tons more practical than any scantron answer, but it means each test had to be graded by hand, which takes a lot longer. Ten days should be enough time.

...Still waiting!