Exam Advanced Statistical Mechanics: results
I’ve finished checking the exam papers today. Good news is everybody has passed (the examination). Though a minority had to struggle for this. The distribution of the marks is pretty standard (otherwise). The fact the students made presentations was undoubtedly helpful.
However, I was dissapointed with the following. There were three groups of students: some obviously prtefer the lectures, some attended the problem-solving sessions only, some tried to combine both. Each of the three groups have exhibited distinct weak points in course of examination… While this is natural for the first two groups, and has a very straightforward workaround, I’m puzzled with the third group. The results of those were good but can easily be better.
Another point of dissapointment are the marks the students gave to our course (there is a questionaire to fill after the examination, a remedy for post-examination stress). It’s 7 in average, could be better giving amount of energy I gave..
