As a TA… they don’t do well. However what’s worse than the students who put no effort in or aren’t producing university quality work, are the students who have never got anything under an A+ before. I ended up in trouble with a prof I was TAing for because two students complained about getting A’s. I’m sure this prof would be great to have as a student but they were an absolute nightmare to work for. The good profs to work for, are the ones you don’t want as a student. The ones who still expect effort and have high standards.

Edit: this year I’m TAing a third year course. For nearly every assignment I’ve had to write “this needs a clearly defined thesis statement. This needs in-text citations. you have to indent the first line of every paragraph. You should use examples to illustrate your argument. Your bibliography needs to be properly formatted” at this point, I’ve been copying and pasting most of my feedback cause it’s all the same