Strict Professor Wants Student To Prove They're Trying To Improve Their Grades, Malicious Compliance Ensues

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Aug 22, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

School can really suck sometimes. Fortunately, Redditor u/ttbmips found a pretty amusing way of getting back at a college professor's mistake after accidentally finishing a test way earlier than necessary. The user in question posted to r/MaliciousCompliance, explaining that the professor had read the time wrong during an exam, leaving OP to rush to finish while students who remained once the professor realized her mistake received 20 extra minutes to work. When the professor asked later on for students to describe what they would do to prepare better for future exams, OP simply said they'd bring their own watch to make sure they had the time correct. This uppity professor scoffed at this, but when the final exam came around, OP said they got a perfect score and submitted a photo of their watch as evidence they prepared better this time.

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    Rectangle - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/ttbmips · 20h Strict professor wants me to prove that I'm trying to improve my grades? I'll give her just that M When I was a freshman in college I had a maths teacher who was very strict about how she taught and how she expected us to learn. For example, she would force students to take notes and if they didn't she would make them leave.
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    Font - During our midterm exam, someone asked how much time was left and she said 5 minutes. At this point I was only about halfway done with the test, so I rushed and finished it barely in time. Me and most other students delivered the test and left the room. When I checked my phone, I realized there was another 20 minutes left. The students who hadn't finished in time told me that after we left, she realized that she read the clock wrong, and gave them another 20 minutes that me and the others
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    Font - The next class, after showing us our results, she said that we needed to develop a strategy to improve our grades. She said that if we created a plan, stuck to it, and provided evidence of us doing it, she would give us some extra credit. What she expected us to do was say something like "I'll practice every week" and submit pictures of us doing it as evidence, or something like that.
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    Font - Now, while I didn't blame her for reading the clock wrong, I did blame the fact that I thought I only had 5 minutes left for not doing well on that test. I was confident that I could have gotten a perfect grade on it if I had the extra 20 minutes. And so, what I said I would do is "bring a watch to the next exam". Was it an arrogant thing to say? Yes, but I also thought it was stupid to follow along with her plan to micromanage our studies. She got mad at me and said that if I didn't do a
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    Product - mjchambers0904 · 18h I always show the university-wide official clock on the projector so the students are always on the same page. G Reply 4 vote 3 halberdierbowman · 12h University-wide official clock? I'm curious what that means. Did your university not just use the same international time standard that almost everyone else agrees to? 4 Vote ...
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