[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Cory

I think your teacher isn't going to care what a bunch of random people on Chiefdelphi think.

To answer your question, yes, that's kind of dumb, but sometimes you just have to deal with it, since you can't change it.

Cory

Of course they'll care, it's CD!

But really, I (being the non-confrontational person that I am) would just do the 80. however, I think it is wrong to subtract points for doing something wrong, especially to subtract more points than the question is worth in the first place. It's slightly different with the SATs where an ommision is 0, correct answer is +1, and wrong answer is -1/4. I have run into a situation with a teacher like yours, except what he does is make every single assignment worth 5 points. This doesn't change between vocab tests, big tests, essays, or a simple paragraph-long assignment. And he didn't even go over our summer reading work which was supposed to be 10 percent of our grade, and I spent about three weeks straight doing it right so I could get a good grade.