So says 87% of college students.
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To get a better understanding of how students perceive the difficulty of their courses and to determine how students respond to being enrolled in a challenging class, Intelligent.com surveyed 1,000 current 4-year college students.
Here’s what they found:
> 87% of college students say some or many professors make classes too difficult.
> Specifically, 13% said none of their course were too difficult, 21% said one course was too difficult, 54% a few courses were too difficult, 13% said that most or all of there courses were unnecessarily difficult.
> Math and Science are the courses that are most frequently cited as unnecessarily difficult.
And, how are students responding to the curricular challenges that they encounter?
> 17% dropped a class they thought was too difficult.
> 69% of students say they respond (to difficult courses) by asking a professor or classmate for help or by studying more
> To that end, 64% say they put ‘a lot’ of effort into their classes …
> But, of the 64% who say they put in a lot of effort, 1/3 admit that they spend less than 5 hours a week studying and on homework … said differently, that’s about an hour per weekday
Cheating, blame shifting and grousing are flavors de jour:
> 31% have cheated in order to get a better grade
> About 1 in 10 students filed a formal complaint that at least one course or professor is too hard
> 2/3s say the professor should be forced to make a class easier
> 38% of students have asked a professor to change their grade
> Nearly half (47%) of college students want to throw out the traditional grading system and replace it with a pass/fail grading system.
Here’s the kicker: despite their “challenges” at the undergrad level…
> 81% say it’s likely they’ll pursue a graduate degree; 25% in business, 14% computer science, and 13% medicine.
As if grad school is going to be a cake walk…
YIPES!
The Homa Files 
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