saxman
Well-Known Member
Well now finishing flying on-time is part of your grade. If you finish flying late and don't meet some of the other critera listed on the "flight template" then the highest grade you can get in most of the courses is a 90% and finishing flying on time is the other 10%.
Which is total crap because as you said a lot of times it is pure luck and the University also needs to understand that some of us also work full time jobs to support ourselves while we go to school and we don't have every evening free to catch up on flying if the weather is bad for a couple of weeks or something.
Wow thats total crap. So much for my suggestions to the profs. If I were still a student there, I would seriously raise some hell about that. When I left UND, I went to Auburn U. to teach there. Now UND was way better in many regards, but the kicker was that the students stage checks were actually graded! A, B, C, D, or F was part of the oral and flight. Now it was still pass/fail as far as getting your certs, but part of that factored in to their final grade. Now, sometimes it might can cause problems with too much subjectiveness and how they were graded, but in general it was a good thing.
Now why can't UND do something like that. Thats really stupid for them failing you if you don't finish. I'm sorry that I had extra non-aviation activities, in which the faculty encouraged me to persue.