Here is a list of the ways
professors here at the American
University grade their final exams:
DEPT
OF STATISTICS:
- All grades are plotted along the normal bell curve.
DEPT
OF PSYCHOLOGY:
- Students are asked to blot ink in their exam books, close
them
and turn them in. The professor opens the books and
assigns the first grade
that comes to mind.
DEPT
OF HISTORY:
- All students get the same grade they got last year.
DEPT
OF RELEGION:
- Grade is determined by God.
DEPT
OF PHILOSOPHY:
- What is a grade?
LAW
SCHOOL:
- Students are asked to defend their position of why they
should
receive an A.
DEPT
OF MATHEMATICS:
- Grades are variable.
DEPT
OF COMPUTER SCIENCE:
- If and only if the student is present for the final
and
the student has accumulated a passing grade then the student
will receive
an A else the student will not receive an A.
MUSIC
DEPARTMENT:
- Each student must figure out his grade by listening to the
instructor play the corresponding note (+ and - would be sharp
and flat respectively).
DEPT
OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
- Everybody gets an A.