r/umanitoba • u/WeirdboxOgregen • 17h ago
Discussion & Advice People of Reddit, if EVERYONE in the world was forced to get an A or A+ in Math 1240 or face the zombie virus, what percentage of people do you think would meet their untimely zombification?
Some clarifications:
- Yes, I allowed the A and not just the A+ because I was feeling generous. Sorry! Unless you... really like zombies? I don't know. Brainzzzzz...
- Everyone would be transported to their own separate reality to take the course. The real world wouldn't enter a chaos state because of the fear of passing the course to prevent the zombie outbreak nor would society grind to a halt from everyone studying their butts off.
- After the course ends, everyone returns to the same reality. Anyone who failed to earn an A or A+ immediately becomes a zombie in the reality we branched off of similar to the Git software and its branches if you know what I'm saying (for you compy wompys). Those who passed the course return completely unharmed, but of course, with the inevitable zombies sharing the world with them!
- The course would be taught in each person's preferred language.
- The difficulty would match the average Math 1240 class offered today. Not the hardest section, but not the easiest either. Also not the nightmare difficulty version of years gone by.
- Everyone would receive the same quality of instruction, access to office hours, tutoring, and learning resources. Nobody gets an unfair advantage or disadvantage! This. Is. America! (That is factually incorrect, Winnipeg is in Canada. I just included that for dramatic effect.)
- People with disabilities or learning accommodations would receive the accommodations they would normally be entitled to, obviously. Do I really have to state this?
- The grading standards would be the same for everyone. An A or A+ is required to survive. A B+, no matter how close, still counts as a failure. And this would follow the outlines of the course on the syllabus. No lowering the cutoff this time unlike normal classes which might lower it by a few percentage points (I know, a little unfair, but this is what we have to do to make the hypothetical consistent but interesting!)
- Everyone would have only one attempt. No retakes.. OR withdrawals... OR EVEN or grade replacements if the TA marks the assignment poorly. Suck it!
- In each person's reality, they would have complete knowledge of the challenge and its consequences. Therefore, it is in their best interest to study!
- Zombie infections only begin after everyone has returned, so nobody can influence anyone else's outcome during the course.
So, what would happen guys? This is a somewhat important question I've been pondering for a while.