I feel like a prophet these days...
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MBA education uses levers as class participation (CP) and relative grading (RG) for effective classroom experience. Both mediums are powerfully effective when used (by students!) in the true spirit of learning, but have quite distasteful outcomes when the same students indulge in what they call RG-giri, i.e. trying to portray each other in negative light to score some brownie points in front of the instructor; and indeed, often these brownie points do translate into grades :)
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Anyways, after one such session in a marketing course where the group presenting the case was massacered left, right and centre by an over-enthusiastic (Read: in the RG-giri mood) audience, yours truly too contributing with one question, we came out of the class laughing at ourselves...and then in the same lighter mood, postulated the Ten Commandments of CP.
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Only if Moses was alive, he would not have complained of hearing just the Voice of the Divine.
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(Some terms carry additional explanation in italics).
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1) Thou shalt not CP in the last 2 minutes of a lecture; especially if the prof himself is overshooting the class timings
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2) Thou shall not CP in XYZ course at all, the instructor already himself is a living CP specimen
(not mentioning the course to be, ah, politically correct)
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3) Thou shall not CP if thou art Rajamundry
(an over-enthusiastic chap who CPs, I guess, without any RG intention)
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4) The time between two consecutive CPs shalt atleast be 3 classes
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5) Thou shalt treat the whole class if thou CP more than once in a single day
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6) Thou shalt seek all CP-overdoer infidels and slay them in the name of God
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7) Thou shalt NEVER EVER put in a follow-up CP
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8) If thou art the last person to CP, thou get to be hooshed
(a popular physical torture over here in IIMB)
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9) All case-presenters are thy brothers and sisters, thou shalt love them
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10) Remember, thou shalt be CPed against the way thou CPed unto others
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Credits: CB, Sudhakar and yours truly
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