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Hermel
on Aug 12, 2015
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The pressure to achieve academically is a crime ag...
A much better fix would be: don't count the two worst tests towards the average. This would allow you to screw up every now and then.
redcalx
on Aug 12, 2015
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The logical extreme version is to take the median score.
jsharpe
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You don't want a scheme where you know your course mark before the final, because then you have no incentive to try, and median allows this. If your marks are 75, 80, 80, 90, then regardless of what you get on the final, your mark will be 80.
juliangregorian
on Aug 12, 2015
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Presuming that "trying" on the final is necessarily a good thing of itself.
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