I know some Post Secondary insutitions grade on a stupid system, where it depends on how stupid the rest of your class is, you can get 96% on the test but if everyone else got 97% and higher you fail, you get last, which sucks, but it really is nice if no one knows there crap then a fiar chance, and even if you never passed the test you still get good marks cause you are better then the rest of the class, could be that system, i hate it, personally i think its a stupid way to do things



Prôdigy

 

I had a class called "Values in the Workplace". I had to take it as part of my Computer Science cirriculum.

The teacher was an idiot. Never tested on things he taught, and didn't do a very good job of teaching things. Needless to say, at mid-terms all but one person was failing the class in a major way. I had a 40% (which on the Quebec side is really bad since a "pass" is 60%, not 50 like it is everywhere else).

The students in my class who were in Business Administration almost lost their ability to go out on co-op at the end of the semester because their program's rules state that in order to be eligible for the co-op, you have to be passing (60+%) EVERY class at mid-terms.

Because of this a stink was raised with the administration, since the entire second year Business Admin group was about to be denied co-op due to the teacher's stupidness.

The marks were bell curved. The people who grasped the little amount the teacher properly taught/tested on were able to get passing marks, and the people who said "who gives a ****, nobody's passing this class anyway" ended up with lower marks. I passed the class with a respectable 75%, up from my 40%, because I worked my *** off to try and understand what was going on.

Bell Curving is a good way to even out marks for groups larger than 25 people because there is so little chance of "everybody getting 97 but you". There will always be a few who don't give a crap and a few who work their *** off to give you upper and lower bounds for the curve, and everybody else who falls in the middle will be given an equivalent type of mark.

Thankfully, in situations like that (where marks are bell curved) the "pass/fail" line is blurred. At my school 60% is a pass, but nobody is allowed to be issued a mark between 55-59. Any marks which are calculated to fall within that range are reviewed by the teacher and the program co-ordinator to determine if the person should be bumped "up" to a 60% pass or "down" to a 54% fail. This is based on quality of work, not content of work, and other un-gradeable attributes like overall effort shown by the student, attendance, etc...

If you got 96% and *everybody* else got 97+, it probably means that the test was unfairly easy, but you have to stop and think that if 30 or more other people managed to get 97%, then what did you miss?

I've seen teachers nail students who play "hookie" too often by testing an entire class of students on an extremely amusing personal story they recounted last class. In that case, when I was sick, I talked to the teacher, he gave me a pass because I wasn't usually absent and I actually bothered to take the time to voice my concern to him. The students who didn't give a **** failed because they didn't give a ****.

Jon

 

That actually sounds useful. I wish I was a bit better on the assembly so I don't have to use the BASIC Stamp instead of much cheaper chips.

I'm the only one who works on my car. Look for another thread very soon with lots of goodies.

I've been told that the pain of kidney stones is comparable to giving birth. And lucky me, I'm still experiencing a considerable amount of it. I wonder if there's a way to trade this pain for getting kicked in the nuts a few times?


Mine! I don't see what the big deal about the GSL-SE is. Sure, it has the 13B. But I'm not even going to use that engine...

 

I don't want the 13b anyways - I just like the interior and bolt pattern
there will be a 13B going into it when I find one - but it won't be n/a

 

I much prefer the interior of the older 1st gens, but this one is maroon, so yay.

This one won't be turbo, that's for sure. People are going to either love it or hate it, with the majority probably hating it. I'm about (well, when I actually start working on it) to violate the sanctity of the GSL-SE.

 

i passed! haha.
actually i ended up with 78/100, quite a ways off from the fail that i thought i may have got...guess i did decent AND they bell curved it, heh.

so if i got that lucky, then your kidney stones are going to be fine and won't hurt at all .


Mr. Cake your engine choice sounds suspicious...almost sounds like something non-rotary....V8. *gasp*

 

I'm with Terrh - GSL-SEs are only good for their:

- Easier to accomodate bolt pattern
- Limited Slip Differential
- Vented Rear Disc Brakes
- Better Gear Ratio (fifth and diff I believe)
- Re-styled interior (also available on all 84-85 models, such as my GS)
- Sunroof (also available on some other models, my GS has one)


And not really the engine. The FI 13b in the -SE is not really my fav engine.... now 12a, *there*'s an engine

Why do I get the feeling Aaron that your GSL-SE's engine is going to look like the enging that Maxthe7man built?

Jon

Jon

 

The engine won't be a V8, but it won't be a 13B either.

 

20b?!?!

 

If I know how crazy aaron is from when I had co-op at his work, it'll be a 26B :P

 

He's mentioned it in another thread...

 

He's gonna take the engine from his prius! Genius! lol. But seriously, tell us what it is. =)

 

It's not a 20B since Tina will get a 20B two engines from now (next engine is a full bridge 13B, then the 20B).

The GSL-SE will have a PP 12A. I just happen to have the 12A from my old '78 beater sitting on the workbench right now. Probably sometime in Feb. I'll pull it apart and then send the housings out to the machine shop...It's going to be a "down and dirty", very fun car.

 

prius? wtf?

I thought you had an insight...

you better still have an insight.

 

Insight.

 

Second that. My first year in university, I was sure I had failed one of my first semester math finals - I was one of the last to leave after 3 hours, most had left after the 2hr mark when you were allowed to leave the exam hall. I had only completed not quite 50% of the questions, and left convinced I had failed a core course that I had gone into the exam with a good mark in my first semester at U. Came back a few days later to check my mark, and found I had gotten a B+! Obviously, the results had been curved because the exam was ridiculously hard -and that all those people leaving ahead of me were just people who had given up! Glad to hear you actually passed Coldfire.

 

BTW, getting the thread at least peripherally back to Aaron's original topic, pardon the pun, why in particular is a PP violating the sanctity of a GSL-SE? It's still a rotary, and no more a violation than turboing a 12a, at least to my mind. Or is it just a matter of it no longer being stock?