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Old 12-23-2010 at 12:25 AM   #1
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Provost's Honour Roll
Can be found here (page 61):
http://www.mcmaster.ca/univsec/mtgdo..._UGC_MTG. pdf

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Old 12-23-2010 at 12:29 AM   #2
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Less health sci this year, very surprising!
Old 12-23-2010 at 02:00 AM   #3
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Less? Everyone else has like <10, humanities seems to have 0, and health sci has like 36ish. Man.

I guess it's cause they're so much smarter than the rest of us.

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EDIT: 3 Young's, all in eng, all with their second medal. That family must be insanely good at academia.

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Old 12-23-2010 at 10:17 AM   #4
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those health scis...so smart. There's no other explanation for their grades, of course.
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Less? Everyone else has like <10, humanities seems to have 0, and health sci has like 36ish. Man.

I guess it's cause they're so much smarter than the rest of us.

/s

EDIT: 3 Young's, all in eng, all with their second medal. That family must be insanely good at academia.
In previous years there's been more health sci. Also, the numbers in science are higher this year than in the past.

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humanities seems to have 0

Just goes to show what highly subjective and often arbitrary marking gets you.

Can't say its the faculty's or the professors faults or anything buts it not like they can magically make essays or projects easily quantifiable they way say Math might be but it just kinda sucks. Its painfully difficult to get a 12 in a lot of Humanities courses and forget a 12 average.
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Old 12-23-2010 at 10:34 AM   #7
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^ This is true.
Old 12-23-2010 at 10:35 AM   #8
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I am amazed by these people.

How they manage to do it... I will never know. Huge respect.
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^ This is true.
I just look more towards the Dean's Honour List for high achievements in the Humanities, a solid 9.5/10 + average is a much more reasonable expectation for the way the courses are graded.

Nothing against the people who are able to get 12 averages because they obviously work extremely hard to achieve those grades though. Just because its different doesn't mean either group puts any less effort into their work. Its just sad that you won't see even the hardest working Humanities students on the highest honour list at the University because of something out of their control.
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Wow.. that's just incredible. I'll never understand it either -_-
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What's an honour and why is it rolling

/will never be on the list with his paltry 9-10 avg
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Can't say its the faculty's or the professors faults or anything buts it not like they can magically make essays or projects easily quantifiable they way say Math might be but it just kinda sucks. Its painfully difficult to get a 12 in a lot of Humanities courses and forget a 12 average.
Well, the higher up you go in math, the more "subjective" marking can get. By that I mean - while you may get something like "x=6" or "x=c" in first-year and there's no two ways about it, by third year you'll be proving extensively. Proof-work is basically argument, so, just like in the humanities, you're being marked on your argument...
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Well, the higher up you go in math, the more "subjective" marking can get. By that I mean - while you may get something like "x=6" or "x=c" in first-year and there's no two ways about it, by third year you'll be proving extensively. Proof-work is basically argument, so, just like in the humanities, you're being marked on your argument...
Interesting. I didn't know math was like that, but obviously there's many, many types of math I know nothing of.
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Well, the higher up you go in math, the more "subjective" marking can get. By that I mean - while you may get something like "x=6" or "x=c" in first-year and there's no two ways about it, by third year you'll be proving extensively. Proof-work is basically argument, so, just like in the humanities, you're being marked on your argument...
<3 proofs

..kinda
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<3 proofs

..kinda
What math courses have you done proofs in? Did you take 2X or 2R, by any chance?

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Interesting. I didn't know math was like that, but obviously there's many, many types of math I know nothing of.
Yeah, I didn't either until last year, to be honest - the first year courses aren't really good indications of upper-year math. I was in History at the beginning of this year, and switched into math as I got more and more into the interesting stuff...
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