"do" is how YOU should have written it. you fail your comment.
Professors do that because as undergraduates they had exams that were too easy (seems counter-intuitive?). If you think about it, easy exams are worse, because if you make a stupid mistake (which I do often), like addition problems or something, you will really lose a lot for nothing. With hard exams, you have an edge over anyone who doesn't understand the material by default. Instead of there being a plateau of scores and then a drop off for those who made stupid mistakes, there is a true gradient based on how much you can (hopefully) learn over the course of a semester. Then the curve can shift that gradient around the grade suited to the professor (hopefully a B). Some exams are just not meant to be finished.
Having said that, however, professors can definitely overdo the difficulty of an exam. This was one of those cases. He practically made us memorize the first 30 chapters of the book.
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why to professors make tests like that?
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Professors do that because as undergraduates they had exams that were too easy (seems counter-intuitive?). If you think about it, easy exams are worse, because if you make a stupid mistake (which I do often), like addition problems or something, you will really lose a lot for nothing. With hard exams, you have an edge over anyone who doesn't understand the material by default. Instead of there being a plateau of scores and then a drop off for those who made stupid mistakes, there is a true gradient based on how much you can (hopefully) learn over the course of a semester. Then the curve can shift that gradient around the grade suited to the professor (hopefully a B). Some exams are just not meant to be finished.
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