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re: LSU Construction Management
Posted on 12/3/17 at 10:51 pm to crazyLSUstudent
Posted on 12/3/17 at 10:51 pm to crazyLSUstudent
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If you can’t pass statics you’re either an idiot, lazy, or both
That didn't used to be the case, but it is now.
Only 1/3 of statics students used to pass it on the first try. Only 1/2 of the students in a given statics class would pass period.
They changed the way the class was taught and tested around 2011 in order to not weed out nearly as many students. It's not the gate-keeper it once was.
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Posted on 12/3/17 at 11:08 pm to kingbob
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Only 1/3 of statics students used to pass it on the first try. Only 1/2 of the students in a given statics class would pass period.
I don't believe that. I can agree it was hard and people failed, but theres no way 50% failed and just had to drop out or change their major. If that was the case LSU wouldn't be pumping out engineers and CAM majors at the rate they do.
This post was edited on 12/3/17 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 12/3/17 at 11:10 pm to kingbob
Correct on all accounts.
Posted on 12/3/17 at 11:39 pm to kingbob
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That didn't used to be the case, but it is now. Only 1/3 of statics students used to pass it on the first try. Only 1/2 of the students in a given statics class would pass period. They changed the way the class was taught and tested around 2011 in order to not weed out nearly as many students. It's not the gate-keeper it once was.
I’ve actually heard this statistic before. It just blows my mind how they could change the class so much. I took it after 2011, but the information itself just didn’t seem bad enough to warrant that much failing no matter how it was taught. It really didn’t seem that bad was definitely not my hardest class.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 5:03 am to kingbob
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Only 1/3 of statics students used to pass it on the first try. Only 1/2 of the students in a given statics class would pass period.
bullshite.
I took it probably in 04-05. The class is difficult from the perspective that there is not a lot of time when taking the exam, homework took time, and it's one of the first engineering classes. But it was not that hard. It's freaking algebra and trig with the tiniest bit of calc that you can get around by memorizing formulas. The tests were literally identical to examples given as homework. And when they gave us one that wasn't (used a trig identity we should all have known, but never had a homework that used it), they let us retake the exam.
But to say the class failed 2/3 of the students is laughable. I don't know a single person who failed. Thermo, Fluids.....yeah, tons failed. Statics was enough to make people say "this isnt going to be easy", but that's about it.
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