Derived from "
full credit," a
term used when the
student managed to get the
correct answer even though she really had
no idea what she was doing.
This term was
generated from an
advanced calculus class. Here's how it all came about (the
names have been changed to
protect the innocent).
Dialogue:
Susan: On
question #3 I wrote out an
integration for the thing, but it required some
trig identity to
solve, so I just put = ? and then said that whatever it equals, it has to be
less than this.
Larry: What did Dr. Bob do?
Susan: He started to cross it out, but then must have gone back, crosses out the cross out, and then wrote "fool credit" to the side... I think he meant "
full credit"... Do you think he mis-spelled it?
Larry: Oh that Dr. Bob...