The most popular terms were monsoons, Columbian Exchange, Columbus and Martin Luther. No surprises there. Only one person did Timur the Lane and only one person did the Dalai Lama, in spite of the Tibetan Monks visit.
The high score in the class was 44 out of a possible 48 — pretty good for the first test. The median score was a B-, which is actually quite good. Here’s how the grade scale worked out:
Grade |
minimum points |
distribution |
A+ |
44 |
A |
41 |
6% |
A- |
39.5 |
B+ |
36 |
B |
32 |
55% |
B- |
28.5 |
C+ |
25 |
C |
21 |
33% |
C- |
17.5 |
D+ |
14 |
D |
10 |
6% |
D- |
6.5 |
F |
0 |
Over the weekend I’ll put some of the 4-out-of-4 answers up here for reference.
When looking at your papers, you can ignore the little diagonal I put in the upper-left and lower-right corners of pages: that’s a note to me that there’s nothing before or after (respectively) that page which isn’t graded (just keeps me from having to flip more pages than necessary). If I underlined or circled something in one of your answers, though, it almost certainly means something you got wrong. If I put an “approximately” sign in the margin (and I do this on essays, too) — it looks like this: ≈ — that means something which is almost right, or nearly wrong; questionable, in other words.
Here are some sample answers. As always, these earned 4 out of 4, though that doesn’t mean perfection: it just means that the historical issues are covered, clear, and the significance really is significant.
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