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Dear Prof. Wong,

It is indeed rather disappointing that the majority students on thisyear’s PHYS 221 are performing exceptionally bad. Those that are on thecourse, however, are already quite hardworking, and some of them haveshown real eagerness in attempting to master the subject. For people withless natural gift, some of the subject-matter could potentially be moredifficult to adept. In view of this, we, the TAs and myself, havediscussed this further and come up with a few thoughts.

Under the current arrangement, unless the students are very forward andcome for assistance before the assignment deadlines, the course materialscovered in the lectures, on which the assignments are based on, are notdiscussed till the actual day of the assignment deadline, by which time,they have already handed their work in. If, however, we could allow themsome time to ponder further on the points discussed in the tutorialsand/or clear some of the problems they encounter in attempting thequestions, their finished assignments would/should reflect theirunderstanding on the topic better.

I know this is a less-than-optimal situation, but if we are handling aclass of somewhat hardworking but less intelligent students, would it notbe possible to adjust our time schedules slightly, say, like postponingthe deadline to the Monday or Tuesday (during the lecture) after thetutorial? This is possibly beneficial to all parties: while the studentshave the chance to tidy up their flawed work, we do not have tocorrect/mark assignments that the students themselves know that are likelyto be wrong.

We sincerely hope that the students can get more from the class and thattheir marks are a more accurate reflection of what they have learnedthrough both the lectures and the tutorials. Please kindly consider oursuggestion.

Thank you for your time in reading this.

Best regards,
Bell
TAs [Kanber, Jenny, Manson]

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我的 e-mail:

Dear all,

I have a suggestion concerning the quiz. I think it maybe better if the
quiz is based on last week's homework. Then, for each tutorial, we hand
out the quiz first, before going to solve the hw problems. This way, I
hope they will be more focused when listening to us.

This also discourages them to accumulate questions until final. The
current situation is basically like, they don't know how to do the hw, and
then they perform badly in the quiz; Then, next week, they have a new hw
to worry about, and they just don't have time to understand why they
performed badly the previous week. Problems just accumulate.

Do all of you agree? If yes, then we can ask Prof. Wong about it.

Regards,
Manson.

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George Wong 過了一天還沒覆，大概他真的 "不知所言" 吧。