Eleven students failed to show up for class because a baseball game kept them away.
This really hurt my feelings.
I hope their stupid team loses.
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Eleven students failed to show up for class because a baseball game kept them away.
This really hurt my feelings.
I hope their stupid team loses.
Clarissa's Blog 
I know, and it wasn’t even soccer…;)
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Exactly! Or at least hockey.
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I know, the Cardinals came back by a big margin to win a playoff spot and I bet everyone’s really excited about that 😀 Speaking of hockey, I hope this damn lockout is over soon so I’ll have something to watch when the baseball playoffs end 😦
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Yes, “Cardinals” was the word they kept using! At first, I thought they were trying to start a discussion about the Spanish Inquisition but then I discovered that it was all wishful thinking on my part.
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No offense but the memory of the playoff game will sit longer in their head and heart.
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We will see how well that memory will compete with that of a terror experinced during a final exam. 🙂
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lol
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Wow, talk about a big cultural divide. Here collage classes usually don’t have an attendance of more than around 50%. 7 people failing to show up is nothing compared to that.
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Participation in my classes is never less than 20% of the final grade, so being absent a lot is a huge mistake. What kind of education is it if not showing up makes no difference?
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Lectures aren’t mandatory in norwegian universities. Grades are only based on exams and or projects. The thought is that as long as you learn what you’re supposed to it doesn’t matter how you do it.
Norwegian universities are deathly afraid of anything school like, it used to be there weren’t even mandatory assignments other than the exams in most courses. Now there are usually two per semester per course, more in some subjects.
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“Grades are only based on exams and or projects. ”
– Just like in the Soviet Union. 🙂 I was the best student who didn’t even know how profs are like.
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Also the size of courses vary very much. Some of the beginning courses can have several hundred students. I’m currently attending a course with more than 500 participants. 80 to 100 is a more common number for beginner courses. It’s impossible to keep track of the participation of that many people.
Later courses which have lower attendence make it possible again, but by that point I don’t think anyone sees a point to it. While you can attend lectures or not as you please people who don’t rarely do very well on the exams.
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I’m not a huge believer in exams. Why should a 2-hour-long occasion where one might be sick, tired, distracted, etc count for more than 4 months of intensive work? I’d never have exams at all but my university forces me to hold them.
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Exams here are longer than that. 3 hours is a short exam, 4 is the most common, 5 is not uncommon either. I can’t imagine what a two hour exam would be like. 3 hour exams were abolished at my department because of students lobbying against them. Even at three hours you can’t cover nearly the breadth of the curriculum so luck plays a big role in whether you get questions you know well or not so well.
Home exams are also common here, but usually only for mid terms (20% to 30%). Unlike what I’ve heard about american home exams you can spend as much time on them as you like during the week or so you have them so they are intended not to be time constrained at all.
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oh and you think one exam covering four months is bad you should have seen the old Norwegian law school system. From what I’ve heard (it was reformd years ago, for good reason) you had one exam covering 4 years.
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