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[quote=Anonymous]Students don't like it because they will never have breathing room.  There's never a time until maybe the last couple of weeks of the semester where they think they can let up on the gas.

This is particularly pronounced when kids have a bunch of different tough classes in quarters 1 and 3 and and they'd like to let up the gas on one to focus on another course.  But if they do that, they could potentially lower their percentage score on the course they let up on, and it could now come back to haunt them in the semester grade.

Also, the issue isn't so much in the reality of how many times this will actually lead to a lower semester grade.  It's in the anxiety that such a thing COULD happen, so they can never let up on any course until the see the light of the end of the semester on the horizon.

Whether you interpret this as a good thing (it keeps kids on task all semester) or a bad thing (it keeps kids stressed and overdoing it out of fear of next quarter's grading) is a matter of perspective.[/quote]

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