tOSU: Cheaters Beware

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What have we come to that we allow ipods during a test! Good grief.

That is exactly what I said-why was the teacher in question such a moron-then again, knowing which teacher it was, I wasn't surprised.

 

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No one from Harvard MBA would probably say anything like that though. Grades are really downplayed in MBA school. At Columbia, we didnt even get traditional grades - they were "H" for honors, "HP" for high pass, "P" for pass, etc. Almost everyone got H or HP. The idea is that if they let you in, you are smart enough to do the work, ie, they couldnt have possibly made a mistake on you. To fail out of a top B-school, you'd have to really really try at it - like not show up to any classes or exams. In the end - B-school is all about getting a job and networking. Grades are somewhat of an afterthought.

I took some grad classes in history before switching to education, and it was pretty much the same way. I had a prof who if he didn't like your book review or paper, he would give you a B-, then tell you to re-do, and give you a B+ or A-, assuming you actually corrected the mistakes. Grad school really is about the information and networking, not nailing people w/ grades.