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

This morning I gave out the pre-final grades of my students in Digital Design lecture.

I was able to check their last exam in less than two hours, although at the expense of the lesser evil of not being able to correct their last exercise, so that was just given to them as a bonus, relatively small compared to compensating to make them wait longer to find out how well they have to do in the finals.

The type of exam I gave, with thirty-plus questions to be answered in one to three minutes each, was very effective in showing exactly what part of the basic concepts the students had already "mastered" and what parts they still didn't study on.

Although from the feedback of one of the underachievers in the Assembly Language class, he preferred the "takes thirty minutes per number" exam because he realized that's when he hacks up the partial points.

Well, sorry for him, I definitely prefer this type of exam now because of how much less it takes me to evaluate, even though I still believe when I give items that are five points each, I would still give partial points of about one to three for the answer depending on how near the value is to the actual solution.

And even though I didn't bring down the percentage of the term exams and bring up the percentage of the finals, I told those who computed to have more than a hundred percent needed in the finals to pass that even when they were my students in general science requirement mechanics, I never told anyone that even if they got perfect in the finals they couldn't pass the subject anymore.

So instead I told them I would be giving a hundred and fifty points over a hundred, a lot more than the hundred ten or twenty over a hundred I used to give in their previous exams.

I'm now actually in the midst of their practical exam, where all plans have benn thrown out the window in that what was supposedly twenty minutes allotted for making the circuit before defending has now stretched, for the first student scheduled and to enter the room, to two hours and thirty minutes and counting.

I definitely will have to revise the procedure of this next time.

Maybe have someone construct the circuits first, then they have to explain what it does. Analysis ought to take less time than making wire connections.

Session 2099 now has to toe the line between convenience and dedication, if that makes any sense. Class dismissed.