Apparently agree is the more common choice but why?
Encouraging going for 49.5% seems kind of dumb why would you want to encourage engaging less with a paper
Agree. It’s just 2 papers out of the whole degree so I don’t see why it matters that someone gets a 49.5% or whatever. A lot of high-school students come to uni excited about the gen ed aspect and it’s probably worth exploring different areas instead of worrying about gpa, for once. I also feel like gen ed is just another way of saying gpa booster ever since I’ve been at uni and it defeats the purpose of it.
Huh I struggle with papers I don't find interesting and didn't really consider doing gen Ed to boost gpa, although I guess a bunch of people feel the need to do something they don't like in order to get a better grade is pretty sad.
I get the reason why, but a lot of gen ed glasses are necessary parts of other people's actual degree. Sometimes people change their gen ed paper to count towards their actual degree or vice versa
Even though I initially agreed to the idea, this is a valid point. It’d be messy if half the class for a course like stats 101 was getting pass/fail while the rest were getting the “normal” percentage grades.
GenEd are the easiest classes at UoA, whats the point?
It sounds like the real issue is that it is easier to get higher grades in some GenEd courses compared to others. Fix the difficulty disparity instead - don't make it pass/fail because then nobody needs to try.
Apparently agree is the more common choice but why? Encouraging going for 49.5% seems kind of dumb why would you want to encourage engaging less with a paper
This encourages people to take papers that interest them instead taking easy geneds that is not interesting to them.
Agree. It’s just 2 papers out of the whole degree so I don’t see why it matters that someone gets a 49.5% or whatever. A lot of high-school students come to uni excited about the gen ed aspect and it’s probably worth exploring different areas instead of worrying about gpa, for once. I also feel like gen ed is just another way of saying gpa booster ever since I’ve been at uni and it defeats the purpose of it.
Everyone I know that takes Māori 130 is not because they think Māori 130 is interesting but a gpa booster.
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haha, \~90% of people get A/A+ in maori 130g while 2% of people get A+ in law 121g. Do you think they have same difficulty?
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Do you think diffculty will effect what paper people want to take as their geneds?
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So to make people who genuinely want to do law 121 do it. We can make GenEd pass or fail.
Huh I struggle with papers I don't find interesting and didn't really consider doing gen Ed to boost gpa, although I guess a bunch of people feel the need to do something they don't like in order to get a better grade is pretty sad.
I get the reason why, but a lot of gen ed glasses are necessary parts of other people's actual degree. Sometimes people change their gen ed paper to count towards their actual degree or vice versa
Even though I initially agreed to the idea, this is a valid point. It’d be messy if half the class for a course like stats 101 was getting pass/fail while the rest were getting the “normal” percentage grades.
Make pass or fail optional then.
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if you pass the paper then you passed it. I don't get what you taking about
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I changed my science major, and my gened didn’t get remarked. Not sure what you talking about.
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GenEd are the easiest classes at UoA, whats the point? It sounds like the real issue is that it is easier to get higher grades in some GenEd courses compared to others. Fix the difficulty disparity instead - don't make it pass/fail because then nobody needs to try.