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tfw someone just steals feelings out of your brain and puts them to words (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It doesn't matter if you use mental math or not, you just need to write what you did in your head on the paper.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yes. Having been there, and done that, I would agree that it should count. My teacher disagreed.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What did you write then? I'm confused. You showed how to solve the problem and got it marked wrong?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I didn't list all the steps in the way they wanted the work shown. I showed the parts that allowed me to formulate the answer in a way that worked, but that was declared "insufficient."

    So giving an answer with partial work for the written section, in combination with my high score on the scantron = cheating, I guess?

    As you might surmise, the teacher was absolute shit, in retrospect.

    The Principal too, since he cosigned her demand that I retake the exam twice, including while in the Principal's office, while he lurked about.

    Makes my blood boil even now.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    SAME. This bullshit “show your work” principle cost me at least as many points as its companion “you wrote your name at the top of the LEFT SIDE of the paper instead of the RIGHT SIDE so that’ll be a C+ for you instead of an A+!”

    Sometimes I think the only reason I pushed myself to get advanced degrees was the need to prove that I wasn’t the idiot in those scenarios. The teachers and/or the pedagogy they were required to follow were idiotic. It’s kinda therapeutic having my own students now and taking a completely different approach.

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