Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

One more thing about my electricity and magnetism class session last Monday: I heard some of students saying that plan to exploit my policy of making the highest score of the class as the basis of one hundred percent.

Theoretically, if they all only write down the given for each problem and get low, then that means they will all have relatively the same high grade. Not that I will just blindly accept that kind of mass “failure” in my exam though. And I also doubt if everyone will agree to that, particularly since there are some students (including my cousin) who have more or less mastered certain aspects of the topics included in the exam’s coverage.

I guess I’ll find out when I get around to checking their papers from yesterday’s test. I’ll talk about what happened during that class when my narrative reaches that point.

For now, I’m on Tuesday’s Trigonometry class. We just had a graded recitation, which doubled as their review for their exam later. I’m glad that there seem to be more students willing to try out their answers on the board, whether or not they solved it in their seats first.

That is, of course, with the exception Deiv, who, for all his high marks, gets a zero for board work. Not that I called him officially though, it was just Dudley volunteering him.

And there seem to be only a handful of students who handed in their assignments (in both classes), although majority passed their test booklets. I really have to think of a penalty for those students who did not give their blank booklets at the time specified. An additional bonus? I’ll think about it.

As for the second class, besides the usual time I gave them at the start to copy some of the examples already written on the board (I just erased the solutions but kept the problems), the willing participants in the recitation were the same.

There were also some students who would ask me to check their solutions while their classmates were still writing on the board. I told them that I could not verify their answers since there was a possibility they would dictate the answers to those reciting.

Although I did not prevent their classmates from giving them suggestions as long as they did not consult me first. There still lurked the possibility that the others’ help would be wrong, and it was the risk they may or may not take. Not that their teacher is infallible.

The only difference was that I did not finish checking their papers from the last quiz before the class started, so I just promised to leave their envelopes with the secretary at 4pm of that day, along with the formula for them to compute their current standing and what scores they needed in the exam and in the finals for them to pass the course.

It seems there was only one student who was eager to get his grade though, because the other groups have not gotten their envelopes from the table at the entrance of the faculty room. From the reaction of some of the students I talked to yesterday afternoon, they were in fact, dreading having to look at their most recent scores. Not really a healthy attitude to take, but I couldn’t force them otherwise.

I'll continue tomorrow. I could hear the other students already in the hall. If there are no more questions, everyone may go.