- Mar 31, 2003
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I don't know if it is just Virginia Tech's teachers but Chem Lab is an absolute joke.
All we do is measure the temperatures and what not. I can deal with that, its freshman year, we aren't going to get anything really really interesting yet.
But then the Lab Reports are ridiculous. The guidlines are vague, and no on ever manages to get an A on them. The content is extremely circular (recovers everything talked about at least 3 times). But then you get a load of points off for every little thing. Sometimes 2x.
For instance, the page number we were supposed to use to find the graph was wrong. So I read through everything and inserted what i thought to be the logical choice. Well it was wrong, and the graph was in there twice. So instead of counting off once i got -10 (out of 100) 2x. And then i got -5 for organization on top of that!!!!!
All of this among other things. I haven't cracked a 'C+' yet!
But the worst part is that i KNOW if i only put in the stuff i was missing and left out the rest of the stuff the difference of the scores would not add up. For instance if I got a -25 for explanation, and -10 for significant figures, if I only corrected those and took out the rest of the content I am DAMN sure that i would not end up with a 35. Probably more like a 2.
-Kevin
All we do is measure the temperatures and what not. I can deal with that, its freshman year, we aren't going to get anything really really interesting yet.
But then the Lab Reports are ridiculous. The guidlines are vague, and no on ever manages to get an A on them. The content is extremely circular (recovers everything talked about at least 3 times). But then you get a load of points off for every little thing. Sometimes 2x.
For instance, the page number we were supposed to use to find the graph was wrong. So I read through everything and inserted what i thought to be the logical choice. Well it was wrong, and the graph was in there twice. So instead of counting off once i got -10 (out of 100) 2x. And then i got -5 for organization on top of that!!!!!
All of this among other things. I haven't cracked a 'C+' yet!
But the worst part is that i KNOW if i only put in the stuff i was missing and left out the rest of the stuff the difference of the scores would not add up. For instance if I got a -25 for explanation, and -10 for significant figures, if I only corrected those and took out the rest of the content I am DAMN sure that i would not end up with a 35. Probably more like a 2.
-Kevin