This seriously happened to me in college. I studied for a test and aced it. Nobody else in the class passed the test. The professor announced he was tossing out my test and curving the grade for everyone else. All the other students were sure I must have cheated and didn't believe that I studied.
Some upperclassmen assholes in multivariable made fun of my diction when I went north to college as a freshman. I have never worked as hard in a math class as I did in that class just to fuck up the curve.
lol same, revenge is the best motivation. Studied continuously for two years because someone called me stupid when I was 16. Waved my results in his face two years later. One of the best days of my life
LIkewise, it was community college and I was studying web design back in 98-99, so the very early days. Took a test on html coding and they announced that not only did someone ace it, but they found an additional mistake the teacher hadn't even meant to put into the code we analyzed. I still can't believe I'm the only one that caught that #TG904Y (or whatever) wasn't a real color. Except in my case, the teacher announced that I was the reason there would be no curve. I found it very difficult to make friends in that class after that.
My proudest moment in my school life was scoring 104% on an exam I finished first out of 150 students; I scored the extra 4% for pointing out a mistake on the test but answering the question the way I thought it was intended to be asked. A misspelled variable in the return of the function or something, but I 'fixed' it and continued on.
That was my experience in a high school biology class. I eventually started to get a couple questions wrong so the rest of the class could get the curve
I had exactly one experience like this, one of those greatest day of college moments. We had a hard mid-semester exam. Everyone is complaining about how hard it was the next class. One of those tests where I had no clue how well I did. Professor lightly berates the class for scores as he's handing them back, and says something like "I can tell one person gets it." He mentioned the distribution, I think it was something like one A, one B, everyone else Cs and below. People are getting their tests and rather loudly complaining about their grades.
I'm thinking "oh damn!" guy next to me I see got a 70ish and making his grievances know to those around him. I got a 95% on the test lol
This reminds me of a similar story a professor of mine told about when he was a student.
His class had a really tough professor who would give an exam by writing a problem on the chalk board for everyone to solve. There was no official printed exam. So, the students came up with an idea. The entire class would work on and solve the same problem before hand and solve that one during the exam, regardless of what the professor actually wrote on the chalk board. The idea was he'd forget what problem he actually wrote and assume that the problem the entire class handed in must be the one he wrote down.
It worked too. Except for that one student who wasn't in on the plot. He solved the actual problem the professor wrote on the chalk board, but the professor thought he was the one trying to cheat because how could everyone else in the entire class solve the "correct" problem...
Once, I was the only one in a class of about 30 to pass a test. Highest score by a good 30%. The teacher asked for my paper test back so he could show it to the dean as proof the other kids were idiots.
we had a situation where everyone failed including me. I was the top of the class. the only person who passed and aced it was the only kid who learned music since he was very young. It was a music class. Principal tossed out the grades, and assumed we were all taught wrong by the music teacher.
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u/TaxLawKingGA 1d ago
“It’s not fair, she cheated. She studied!