Dear New College Student: thoughts from a professor

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15. Regarding the transposition -

What I described is the only such incident in my 30+ years of higher education instruction. It also happened in the days before exam scores would be made available online so a student can see them and bring them to our attention right away. Such errors would be corrected long before grades are submitted these days.

This probably happened after I'd already been grading close to 300 exams. I was responsible for the lectures, which meant I didn't get to know each student very well. Under those circumstances, it's not that hard for simple mistakes like that to happen. Fortunately, it's also very easy to fix them.