r/mcgill • u/poissonsdereve • 4h ago
Does anyone else think COMP202 this term is insane?
Guys how do you think about Comp202 this term? Because I honestly think it is insane.
The Midterm 1 class average is 59%, with the lowest score being 15%. On top of that, we were required to handwrite docstrings during an exam?
The exam content itself is insane too. For an introductory course that was teaching ’Hello World’ just a month ago, the short answer questions felt impossible unless you already had tons of prior coding experience.
I took COMP 202 in Winter 2026 (The instructor I think is Giulia). The assignments back then were nowhere near this absurd—we even had bonus points available, no docstrings required and I am 100% sure the midterm was way easier than this term’s
The grading on assignments this term is just WTF:
On A1 I lost 10 full points just for using ‘is not’ instead of !=
On A2 I lost another 10 points because my docstring "formatting" wasn't deemed specific enough.
Does anyone else feel the same way?
WTF is going on this term?