take home exam situation

[BradleyT]

Who honestly spends 8 hours completing a homework project?

[edtost]

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edtost,
where do u go and what's ur major?

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Princeton; Operations Research and Financial Engineering

[istewart]

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Any instructor who gives a take-home exam with a honor code time limit is an idiot.

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lots of profs at my school give these. then again, the entire graduating class manages a 4.0 .

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FYP

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Any instructor who gives a take-home exam with a honor code time limit is an idiot.

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lots of profs at my school give these. then again, the entire graduating class manages a 4.0 .

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FYP

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not quite. new regulations require a maximum of 35% A's in coursework and 50% A's in independant work per semester, for each department. that said, i remember reading an article a couple of years ago stating that a 3.0 average wouldd have put a student in the bottom 10% of that year's graduating class.

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Speaking as a former graduate student, academic honesty, especially in a graduate program, is very, very important. You could cheat and probably get away with it, but to quote the professor of a friend of mine, "you will never, ever feel good about it." As time goes by, the grade will be less and less important but the knowledge that you cheated will haunt you. And you can never tell anyone you did.

I honestly cannot imagine any of my former colleagues cheating on an exam like that. Not one of them.

[mmcd]

I love threads like this because they invariably bring the people that take life way too seriously out of the woodwork.

Hopefully, the poll results will serve to remind them how out of touch with reality they are.

[lastchance]

I made my answer before I saw the "It's a graduate class, so grades don't really matter." I need to start applying that concept (eh.. HS, multiple AP classes, getting 3.0 should be fine)

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I made my answer before I saw the "It's a graduate class, so grades don't really matter." I need to start applying that concept (eh.. HS, multiple AP classes, getting 3.0 should be fine)

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Uh, no. HS grades matter immensely. You should be busting your ass to get grades in HS. College grades also matter, but less so. Graduate school grades are meaningless.

[lastchance]

Ok, got it, slack off later. Still, I probably care way too much about my grades, just got to do all of my work correctly, and accept it.

[mmbt0ne]

Bump because I've got 2 of these right now. One that is pretty open, and one that is very obviously no collaboration. Some people in the no collaboration class had a meeting yesterday afternoon to work on the exam anyway, which I decided late not to go to because I was hanging out with my girlfriend. Today we got this e-mail.


It saddens me to say that several students have ignored my warning on
collaboration on the final exam.

I do have names for individuals who committed this breach of my trust
and the Georgia Tech Honor Code.

I will therefor give you a choice:

You can respond to this e-mail and admit to me that you collaborated,
and I will dock your exam grade by 40 points (out of 110).

or

I will turn your names over to your respective Departments and the Dean
of Students and, given that you have this choice, do my best to see you
dismissed from Georgia Tech.

You have until Wednesday at 5 PM to choose.


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