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The engineering department at my school is notorious for bastard professors.
My frosh year in Physics II, we had this guy that gave us a pretty damn difficult exam. The class average was around a 70, and I actually got an 86, so I'm feeling damn good about the course, right? Well, he proceeds to tell us that he was too easy on us, so he puts 100% trick questions on the next exam. Every question had something that we'd been doing, but changed a few words that completely changed the problem, so of course we all did bad..the class average was now where he preferred it, at a 30...I got a 24! So now in 2 exams, my grand total is 100 pts, and we're all just bewildered that he did this to us, at which point he reemphasizes to us that there is no curve! He ended up doing the extra credit route, but regardless, his next tests were along the same line as the 2nd, but fortunately we anticipated it, so we did much better, but I ended up with a B, which was solid in a course like that, but damn after that first exam, I thought the course was in the bag.
A second professor for Linear Algebra last year was miserable as well. Not a single person learned one thing from him, and the only reason anyone passed is because he realized he wasn't cut out to teach this particular course, and aided us greatly. We had 12 quizes. On the 1st one, everyone but one person got a zero. On the next three, out of 20 points, the class averages were around 3 or 4. He proceeds to tell us, "Sorry, I really am the worst teacher, hopefully, that you'll ever have." Can you believe that? He said that in class! It was funny, but lord....so true.
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