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    What could elementary school teachers do to better prepare students?

    Physics forums members have ranted how high-school did not prepare students for college. However, I think that elementary school is as equally as important as high-school. Members have should be ranting about elementary school teachers too. The willingness to do homework is a skill that students...
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    Other My teacher gave out pratice exams?

    I probably didn't understand the pre-calculus all that well as I should had because I relied on the practice exams.
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    Other My teacher gave out pratice exams?

    I can't remember the name of the colleges the math tutor said. My own math teacher doesn't even grade the homework himself.I am quite aware that there are teachers who give out practice problems which conveys a sense of what topics are high priority and what aren't. However, his practice exams...
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    Other My teacher gave out pratice exams?

    Allow me to elaborate further. I talked to a math tutor who also happens to be a math professor. I asked him if his class gives a study guide of some sort. He said," I don't give out practice exams. Some colleges forbid teachers from doing that. People will do the exam and not do the homework...
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    Other My teacher gave out pratice exams?

    Hello, I am taking pre-calculus in college. However, I am worried that my class has grade inflation in it. My teacher gave out practice exam which is the same as the exams except with the numbers switched. How worried should I be if he did this?
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    Failing students who are close to passing?

    What an interested thread. I am a student and I was curious how do teachers approach this problem. I never had a teacher had to bump my grade from a 67 to a 70 percent.
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    Failing students who are close to passing?

    It's very quite easy to fail students who has an F. But,however how do teachers deal with students who are close to passing? What if the student has a 67% as their grade? Do you bump their grade to a 70% or you let them make up work?
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