Question

Your instructor decides to give the class one very hard exam question. The entire class may work together to answer the question since the instructor just wants the correct answer; she does not care how the class arrives at the answer or who contributes to answering the question. She will grade the final answer the class submits, and all students will receive the same grade. In one sense, the exam grade is a __________ since all students will benefit and cannot be denied a grade, regardless of their individual contributions to answering the question.

Answer 1

Answer: Collective/general grade

Explanation:

An exam most times could be difficult enough that the lecturer makes it open for everyone to work collectively to get the result. Although, in most cases like this, it's not everyone who would contribute as some person's would view it as an opportunity to relax and leave the task for others but despite that, everyone would still be awarded the same score for it being a collective effort. They are some person's in the group who won't want to fail and would do their best to come up with a result.