Grades vs Teaching?

[vettechtoRN]

Has anyone noticed that school is all about all the students receiving an A rather than teaching? An abnormal amount of kids in my CC have received an A in A and P 1. Why? because the tests were super easy and we had a ton of extra credit. We got out of A and P without knowing one muscle or bone!! I feel like these kids are going to have a rude awakening in nursing school. My micro class tests are challenging but he also gives a ton of extra credit. Same went for my human bio class. I just don't remember getting any extra credit my first time through school. The grade you earned was the grade you got.

[FutureRNMel]

Okay...............

[NurseGirl525, ASN, RN]

I took A&P a few years ago and was one of the only ones with an A, there was no extra credit offered (which is the way that I think it should be). It would really bother me if students came out of the class not even knowing A&P, yet ended up with an A! My class was VERY intense, and that is the way it should be. I don't care if 80 students started and only 20 finished, it does not say anything about the professor to me it tells me that 60 students didn't take the amount of time needed to study seriously. College level classes are mainly self taught- there is too much information to expect a professor to teach it to you.

Glad my school is not like that. I love my physiology lecture professor. I had her for A&P II also. She is a great lecturer and makes sure we understand the subject matter. We work hard in her class but she has a real passion for what she teaches and makes sure we know it. It is not self taught. That is how my sociology professor is and it is a miserable class. I am thinking of dropping it and taking a 200 level psych class because I hate it so much.