[dunham]

I was one of many TAs for a large math class in college (pre-calc - think high school math for college students). For uniformity, the prof had the partial credit down to a science - specifying points for getting certain aspects of the problem. For the finals, a few TAs would be assigned to a given page, for uniformity.

The fascinating thing was that the distribution of grades was about the same every year.

And I had a math prof for analysis who would give negative points for BS answers. You could say “I need X but don’t know how to prove it” in the middle of a proof, but if you made up something that was incorrect, you’d get negative points.

[hilux]

Oh, that brings back memories! "For every epsilon, there is a delta ..."