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by jandrese 3264 days ago
My impression is that the article is about highschool students, where homework tends to be on the order of 75% of your grade simply because you get so much of it.

If someone were really serious about abusing the service they could pull out a C in the class even with hard failures of the tests.
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_jal 3264 days ago
> where homework tends to be on the order of 75% of your grade

I think I found the problem.

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jandrese 3264 days ago
It's hard to balance when you have an hour of homework assigned every day, but only get tested about once a month. So you have 20 hours of homework vs. a 30 minute test.

The difference in magnitude ends up being too much. Either each homework assignment is worth almost nothing or they outweigh tests.

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