Friday, April 22, 2005
"Honors"
I am very disappointed about all of the classes' performances today (especially E period which has sunk to a new all-time low).
Apparently, a QUIZ is not important enough for most people to care about. The next time that you think, "multiple choice, oh that's easy", guess again: multiple choice means NO partial credit, wrong units=wrong answer, wrong sign = wrong answer, missed a key word= wrong answer. Most people were so careless today that they couldn't even locate a Bronsted base (which requires minimal intelligence especially after the number of problems that we did in class and the multiple worksheets with answers on that one topic; the simple definition: an H+ acceptor).
Today's quiz results made it painfully obvious that MOST people blew off this test even though it covered a broad amount of important subtopics. The few people who did well were at extra help yesterday; one of them got a perfect score. An Honors student tries on every test or quiz, no matter how many points are involved.
Be prepared on Monday. Things are going to be very stern until performance improves.
One more thing that absolutely DISGUSTS me: I know some students who studied hard for today's quiz but their confidence was shot BEFORE THEY EVEN SAW THE QUIZ because some unthinking, ill-intentioned, incompetent "people" scared them by moaning about how "impossible" the test was. Newsflash: Each question tested a listed objective VERBATIM. The next time you can't handle a test for WHATEVER reason (especially if you didn't do EVERY hw assignment and you didn't take adequate notes in class because you were too busy daydreaming about how nice it is outside), KEEP YOUR FAILURE TO YOURSELF. Don't psyche out the rest of my classes with your miserable comments. If I find a student psyching out anyone in my class, that student is going to get detention for a WEEK and he better thank me for just giving him such a minor penance.
We have a new unit next week (redox); it is mostly unrelated to our last unit so resolve to master it before you find your final quarter average irreparable.
Apparently, a QUIZ is not important enough for most people to care about. The next time that you think, "multiple choice, oh that's easy", guess again: multiple choice means NO partial credit, wrong units=wrong answer, wrong sign = wrong answer, missed a key word= wrong answer. Most people were so careless today that they couldn't even locate a Bronsted base (which requires minimal intelligence especially after the number of problems that we did in class and the multiple worksheets with answers on that one topic; the simple definition: an H+ acceptor).
Today's quiz results made it painfully obvious that MOST people blew off this test even though it covered a broad amount of important subtopics. The few people who did well were at extra help yesterday; one of them got a perfect score. An Honors student tries on every test or quiz, no matter how many points are involved.
Be prepared on Monday. Things are going to be very stern until performance improves.
One more thing that absolutely DISGUSTS me: I know some students who studied hard for today's quiz but their confidence was shot BEFORE THEY EVEN SAW THE QUIZ because some unthinking, ill-intentioned, incompetent "people" scared them by moaning about how "impossible" the test was. Newsflash: Each question tested a listed objective VERBATIM. The next time you can't handle a test for WHATEVER reason (especially if you didn't do EVERY hw assignment and you didn't take adequate notes in class because you were too busy daydreaming about how nice it is outside), KEEP YOUR FAILURE TO YOURSELF. Don't psyche out the rest of my classes with your miserable comments. If I find a student psyching out anyone in my class, that student is going to get detention for a WEEK and he better thank me for just giving him such a minor penance.
We have a new unit next week (redox); it is mostly unrelated to our last unit so resolve to master it before you find your final quarter average irreparable.
# posted by C @ 8:13 PM 
