Sunday, April 22, 2007

R ( I + P + A )

I don't like my progress report.

Progress report is quite a screwed up thing. Some subjects only count 1 or 2 pieces of work, so gg if you screw that up. And the "percentile" thing isn't very nice. Put them together and you have a molotov cocktail for unhappiness. Like chem the 1st TA i screwed up and got 17/25, that mark kena put in my progress report as a terrible-looking "test" mark even though it is only 5% of CA.

For RA subjects even worse. If they give percentile within RA class, class size < 15 how to draw bell curve and give percentiles? And besides some pple in RA class will get bottom 10%, which shouldn't be the case since those in RA class are already the top 10% of their batch for that subject. But if they compare RA marks to RP marks to report a percentile, it's quite unfair since RA subjects are harder and pple score lower.