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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most likely if he got an F he just didn't attend and/or didn't submit. If he's otherwise doing OK, my guess is he blew it off and misjudged the reprecussions. For example my program states that 4 absences for a course that meets weekly is automatic fauilure - some students test this.

Have a heart to heart with him about how serious he is about school. 
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Again, this is not always the case. I'm the poster above. My kid probably could have recovered from the failed tests if he had advocated and met with the professor and maybe wound up with a C- (as he did when he retook it), but for him it was indeed the content (a professor created-macro that broke down Excel every time you made a mistake, in the middle of in-class tests--nobody got As in the class and test averages were around 60%). Those of you whose kids haven't experienced professors like this have no idea what you're talking about.[/quote]

+1000

My kid had a prof (everyone hated them).  First, this prof will not let you take photos in class and won't post slides on line, yet fills the slides with about 300% more information than a slide should have (and it's engineering, so that's a lot of info).  They watched a video in the final 2 weeks of classes about 12+ ideas/concepts.  The questions on the final from this were about the ACtuAL names of each reaction/Chemical exchange.  My kid knew what each did and how to use them, but couldn't recall all the names (because read above, you cannot fully take notes in that class and nobody thought the names itself was important=-==they thought the facts and concepts were).  Nobody got an A in the course.  My kid got an A- and there were lots of Bs/Cs from really smart kids.  I mean who doesn't let you take notes properly and who at college level focuses on small details over the actual content/importatn items.  It's junior year of engineering not memorizing data for A&P1

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