Is anyone out there having trouble in this class (like me)? I just took the test and most surely failed it. Anyone interested in a possible study group for next test?

9/29/2006 11:06:54 AM

Took me 3 hours to do that damn test, and I read everything but finishing Kitcher, and went to all but 1 class, AND had a study group.

9/29/2006 3:04:47 PM

No matter what you do you'll get an A-.

9/29/2006 3:18:49 PM

Search. Hit that "Search button" and type "PHI340", "PHI 340", etc.

You'll find tons of threads. Have you looked at his scoring rubric? Like a 55 is a C. I took it credit only, failed everything, and got an "S" for Satisfactory.

Worked for me.

9/29/2006 3:56:00 PM

I am fully aware of the pre-curved rubric and his grade distributions. 76/A, yeah I can handle that.

Without it, I wouldn't be in that class.

9/29/2006 5:35:41 PM

What search button r u talking about?

I yeah I do understand the grading scale, but I still don't know if it's going to help, I went and talked with him, but he didn't seem to be much help (what a shock),

Where and when is the study group, what kinda studing would you do to prepare for this test??

And too bad, but I can' take the class for credit only...

9/29/2006 10:29:18 PM

http://brentroad.com/message_search.aspx?section=7 is the search link, you'll see in it the top-right corner if looking at ALL THREADS in Study Hall.

Here's a few results:

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=414064

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=402715

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=387323

Yeah, he's useless to talk to. I couldn't figure out how to study (I took it Distance Ed., all online, by the way). I just opened a test, read the question, and used Ctrl + F to sift through his website until I found something halfway relevant and tried to guess the best answer.

The real key is to do both those surveys, and get good grades on all the little "non-test" items. They'll help quite a bit.

9/29/2006 10:38:54 PM

Thanks so much for the help, I read another blog that was posted over the summer about this class and it seems that ALMOST everyone has the same opinion on this prof/class. After the first test, which took me four hours to decide through, my brain was FRIED!!!! I guess I will just have to read carefully and hope that I do well, again thanks for the advice

9/29/2006 10:44:03 PM

I can definitely related to the "fried" feelings after each of his tests...very true. But yeah, your only real hope is to do as well as possible on the non-tests, and just Ctrl + F through his website on tests.

9/29/2006 11:03:11 PM

A "study group" for this class is silly. Whenever you decide to take the test make sure that you allocate a lot of time (my experience... approx 6 hours). Enough of your questions will have a direct answer for you to do OK... most of the others you can eliminate a lot of the answers through the readings. Doing past exams can help get you in the right mind set... the test questions aren't the same... but have similar themes presented which helped me a lot. Also, I believe the final is optional? I dont really remember... but i do know that most of the questions on the final are directly from the other tests... so no problems there. Also, the distribution has been severely skewed in your favor. Put in a little effort and you'll be just fine.

9/30/2006 1:43:42 AM

i did all of my tests in an hour or less and got a B of some sort. we didnt have some crazy 55 = C curve though, he just built in some points of extra credit.

that said, if you are wasting 6 hours on these tests you either need to develop some reading comprehension or stop caring so damn much.

9/30/2006 10:18:49 AM

I got a 68 on the first exam, which is a B.


I was looking at his grade distributions for past semesters and it looks like usually about 40% get As and 30% get Bs, so I wouldn't really sweat this class too hard.


I didn't even really read any of it before the test, just spent 3 hours on the test looking at the sources.

10/2/2006 7:06:58 PM

I got an A+ in this class. I used to have the tests with the answers on my computer, but I recently deleted them when I graduated.

Good luck though, them tests are a bitch. I always did them in the evening and then woke up the next morning and checked over it again with a fresh brain.

10/3/2006 8:18:59 AM