/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1921279]

>yay my exam went better than expected
>walk outside, what a beautiful day!
>overhear classmates talking about test
>"did you remember to use sheperd's correction on that last one?"

>mfw ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Anonymous No.1921297]

>Prof posts the stats for tests
>mean was 68 out of 93
>get a 77
>beat the average but still fucking suck with an 82%
>my animooted face when

[Anonymous No.1921310]

Ahh... haven't we all been there... forgetting to use sheperd's correction on that last one. Good times, brings me back to my youth.

This thread is going places, I can tell.

[Samefag No.1921314]

>My class is graded on percentile - if you do better than 80% of the rest of the students, you get an 80%. If you get 98% of the test right but 75% of the students got 99 or better, you have a 25% in the class.
>Look around
>Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Asian Nigger Asian Asian Asian
>mwf first in the class

[Anonymous No.1921339]

>>1921314

retarded grading scheme.

[Anonymous No.1921342]

>Chem Prof posts test stats, only one 100
>mfw

[Anonymous No.1921353]

>>1921342
>Prof will probably catch shit from school admin if the average is too low
>Posts average: 4.6/20
>200 people took course
>Note: Papers that got 0 were not included in the average
>Number of 0s: 60

[Anonymous No.1921354]

>>1921314
You can't be serious, so if everybody got a 9/10 or higher, the person with a 9 would still fail?

[Anonymous No.1921372]

i can haz...?

[Anonymous No.1921398]

>>1921353

what course lol?

[Anonymous No.1921400]

>>1921279

lol fucken sheppard...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SheppardsCorrection.html