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[FL] Bad Professor with 90% fail rate.
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So I don’t know if this belongs here but I figured I’d ask. When I was in college I took a class with a professor that had about a 90% fail rate because he was such a bad teacher. So bad in fact that he was then suspended for the next year. My question is that since I took his class and did terrible do I have the right to have them remove that from my transcript. I took the class again and did 100x better. Just wanna know if there is some grounds legally or by some means to get this erased because I plan on applying to Med school and this one blemish really sucks.
Thanks for your help!
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Not legal advice, but something that may help.
My university has something called grade deletion. Basically you can delete up to a certain amount of credits from a transcript. It’ll be like you never took the course. I believe I’m allowed 9 credits at my university, so 3 normal classes.
It’s useful for someone who started in a major, did awful, and changed their scope of study. They can delete the awful physics grade and start over on their business degree. I’ve never personally used it, but it’s there. Maybe try talking to your class registration office or whoever answers questions and see if your school offers this as well.
How bad can you do on RCM L8 exams before you fail?
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I ask this because there is absolutely no piece in List B that interests me at all, to the point of hating every minute I practice the chosen piece (Sonata in C maj. k 545). I am not a huuge fan of classical pieces (however there are some that ring my bell), and most of my repertoire is more from jazz or from more modern eras. I have most of my scales and tech stuff down, sauf 2 arpeggios and the Eb min formula pattern. I have relative pitch, and sight-reading wont be a problem All I am aiming for is a pass, as I would rather dedicate my piano time practicing songs I enjoy. How likely is it that I pass? Any anecdotes of "barely passing" performance would be appreciated.
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Are you just taking the exam for credit?
I kind of feel you on the List B, they're a little bit longer and not always too inspiring.
All I'm going to say is that you'll thank yourself for getting even to RCM Level 8, if you're branching into other styles. Having the understanding of scales and a bit of theory is priceless, and a lot of people don't get this chance.
The lowest I got on an exam was 72% on my Grade 6, and it was because I had memory lapses in every piece and asked the examiner to let me use the book. I stumbled quite a bit, but similar to you, sight reading was good, and I think my scales/ear training went decent too.
I ended up finishing the ARCT, and have a degree in Piano, and I'm still not a HUGE fan of the List B equivalents. Everyone has their likes/dislikes, so there's nothing wrong with it.
It's also not about 'dedicating time', try to think of it as cross-training in a sense. Classical undoubtedly gives the best technique, and these pieces incorporate all these techniques. Don't just aim for a pass though, it's just a disservice to yourself. Just do your best, fuck the actual Grade % you get. The grade doesn't matter, but don't aim low.
Why Can't I pano? PS and PTGUi fail bad ICE kinda works. : AskPhotography
Main Post: Why Can't I pano? PS and PTGUi fail bad ICE kinda works. : AskPhotography
Why does this subreddit want Ubisoft to fail so bad? : ubisoft
Main Post: Why does this subreddit want Ubisoft to fail so bad? : ubisoft
How bad is it to fail a class?
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It's not looking like I'm going to pass one of my classes, how bad is it if I fail it, it's not super important to my major but I'm still really upset about failing it. Am I screwed?
Top Comment: To be fair a lot of people fail classes in college, it's like a normal occurence. What you should worry about is what you're going to do after actually failing it. If you fail and do nothing about it, then you're screwing yourself up a bit.
Why did “Mr. Bad Guy” fail with the public?
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As a fan of eight years I really should know far more details of the inner workings of all this stuff, but was Freddie not really a draw to the public on his own?
Now he's a a mystical rock god, but did he not have the same pull back then outside of Queen? Was it his sexuality that kept people at bay, but was acceptable within the vehicle of Queen? Was the material just subpar? Badly marketed?
He realized it quick and that was a reason why he was so adamant about A Kind of Magic being done, he knew Queen was his ticket to carrying out his persona.
Top Comment: Numerous reason why Mr Bad Guy failed. If numerous documentaries were to be taken at face value, Freddie lost interest in the project due to the lack of challenge and push back from other people. From a marketing standpoint, outside of maybe a hand full of adverts and spots; you only really had music videos for Made In Heaven, I Was Born to Love You and Living on my Own to promote the album. Because Queen were in the middle of The Works tour when the album released, Freddie (who very rarely did interviews) never took part in the albums marketing. None of these songs were played live or performed/mimed on TV during Freddie's life. Lastly, Mr Bad Guy is a subpar album. A lot of the tracks were either rejects from Hot Space or The Works. The rest of of the tracks are really Freddie on auto-pilot. Really if Freddie had to make a solo album with the budget of Mr Bad Guy (which reportedly was higher than Hot Space/The Works if documentaries/interviews are to be believed); it really should have taken place after A Day at the Races where arguably, Freddie was at his most creative phase of his career.
Avowed bombed. (And so did another woke game)
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So Avowed is fully released now. While recent titles that did a similar "early access weekend" release structure tended to come in around 1/2-2/3s of their full release peak as their early access peak, Avowed was notably below this, only gaining a couple thousand players day one of full release. We can surmise from this for future reference that games that appear to be flopping in early access will not increase by orders of magnitude in full release.
Based on the fact that Veilguard got 90k peak concurrents on Steam and sold only half what it needed to be profitable, we can conclude that Avowed's 15k peak concurrents represent, relatively speaking, an even larger flop, despite probably being proportional to a somewhat smaller, though still AAA, budget. If Veilguard needed 180k to succeed, then Avowed is definitely not getting there with 1/12th of that, as its budget was certainly not 1/12th of Veilguard's on a 6 year AAA development cycle. I actually gave this game TOO MUCH credit, I had been predicting 20-30k peak concurrents and...they didn't make it. Notably, Avowed falls in the same ballpark of player numbers as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which lost $200M for Warner. It's unlikely Avowed had a budget of the same size, but it likely still represents a high-8 to low-9 figure loss for Microsoft.
A note on Gamepass: This game is a day one gamepass release. Many people will play it that way. This will likely help Obsidian and Microsoft with optics much more than it will with actual money. I fully expect them to release a misleading brag post proudly declaring that Avowed has reached "X million players" within a few days. However, because this is a Gamepass game, a PLAYER does not necessarily mean a SALE. Every person with an existing Gamepass subscription who downloads it entirely for free and dicks around with it for a couple hours counts as a player...but provides the developer and publisher no actual financial benefit whatsoever. Gamepass is meant to help with Xbox install bases and put consoles in homes. That's obviously not working. Adding more games to Gamepass is also meant to bring in, and retain, new long-term subscribers. Unless Avowed is bringing in NEW subs, not just being played for a bit by existing ones, Obsidian and Microsoft aren't benefiting. Avowed on Gamepass would have to sell (averaging the PC and Xbox costs of the service) about five months of subscription to equal one normal sale. And if you REALLY want to try one specific game on Gamepass, there are plenty of ways to get a free month and then cancel. If Avowed's normal sales are this poor, it is unlikely it's significantly driving new subscriptions to Gamepass even if a large number of existing subscribers give it a try just because it's free so why not. "Gamepass will save it" is not a strong argument.
Additionally, Don't Nod has just released "Lost Records: Bloom and Rage", another game in the visual style of Life is Strange. According to Grummz, Sweet Baby Inc was involved in this game. A community note elsewhere seems to disagree but only cites DEI Detected as a source, and Kabrutus might just be late on updating, so I'm not sure on that. Either way it looks woke as hell. It also seems to have catastrophically failed. At a peak of 2k concurrents, Lost Records has the lowest player count of any of Don't Nod's Life is Strange-style "hand drawn art" games. Don't Nod is a AA, not a AAA, so I don't know exactly what the budget on these things is, but I think it's safe to guesstimate that these similarly scaled games with a similar graphical style are in the same ballpark of budget to each other, and with the Life is Strange games (except remasters) tending to be in the range of 8-18k peak concurrents (excluding a brief window where Life is Strange 2 was being given away for free and zoomed to 468k concurrents), their expectations are probably somewhere in the 10k ballpark, so there's no way 2k is good enough to make them a profit. If this IS an SBI game, that continues their unbroken losing streak since being exposed at the start of last year. As Don't Nod's offerings have become woker and woker over the years, the developer's stock has lost 95% of its value and is still falling.
Get woke, go broke.
Some future predictions:
The biggest GWGB fight of the near future is going to be Assassin's Creed: Shadows. It will underperform. AC is of course one of the biggest game franchises there is, so it's still going to do numbers, but as a Ubisoft "AAAA", it's also in the top-tier of expensive, high-budget games, probably $300M+, especially after the delay, and needs huge sales to recoup that. Tens of millions, not millions, of copies. Investors are looking for a billion dollar game like they got with Valhalla. I expect there to be a "gaslighting period" of a few months where the woke, the games press, and Ubisoft desperately try to put on a good show and make it look like it succeeded despite numerous warning signs that it didn't, before ultimately, they are legally obligated to admit to their investors that it fell short of expectations and the people who were previously insisting it disproves get woke go broke shove it down the memory hole. Sorta like Veilguard, which was being treated last year like THE game that would disprove get woke go broke and THE big battle that matters (unlike all the other failures), then forgot all about that after it flopped.
Then shortly after Shadows comes South of Midnight, another SBI game full of race-swapping and uglification, with no existing fanbase or license to hide behind. That one obviously has no chance and will be a huge and obvious flop.
Top Comment: The anti-White racism from the studio ensured its failure.