[knaik94]

I don't see how in a class of 30 students, having only 1 A and 1 B is a indicator of a good teacher. By definition the grades should reflect how well the students learn the material. Making your class artificially hard doesn't do anything to offset artificially easy courses. A class where 93% of students didn't properly master more than 80% of the material demonstrate a failure of the teacher not students. I am glad you gained something positive from that class, but I would say that is despite the professor, not because of them. Having good or bad grades is currently a poor reflection of how well a student will pickup new technologies exactly because of skewed grading methods like that of your professor. I am glad you gained something positive, but I wonder how many promising students were discouraged and pursued other interests over the years due to opaque testing standards. Tests are supposed to gauge how much information students are retaining from a teacher. In a high level class cross-listed for graduate students, the concern of lazy students shouldn't be an issue.