Looking for Advice

Entire grade is from 3 or 4 exams (so no HW) which typically I'd prefer but exam questions resemble trivia questions, the minutia of what he lectures on. So even if you know & understand what he covers in class, your exam probably won't reflect it as it should.

Also, penalization for "illegible" handwriting & improper capitalization, one of which is strictly subjective. I write like a girl, i.e. neat & legible but lost points- If you don't fully close the loop on a lowercase "a", you lost a point. If your capital "A" in "Alabama" is not satisfactorily larger than the other letters, then its not "capitalized" & you lost another point.

I mean, I consider MYSELF a bit of a grammar Nazi but apparently I am just a sympathizer.

He's knowledgeable, absolutely. But when you're taking away points for stuff like this, and your exams are so uberspecific, your results are no longer an accurate measure of your knowledge of the topic of the course.

I'm going to be a senior, and the B- I got in this class was the lowest grade I've gotten... luckily a lot of the material was not new to me and I had already passively absorbed a lot of the info during my time as an adult but had given up on excelling in the course about halfway through

The kicker is, I like geography yet he somehow managed to make me hate it after just 1 month.

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