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I'm not sure if anyone can identify with this problem or has experienced something similar...
I'm taking all 4 courses online this term. If I do well (A's and B's, which at the moment, I have 3 As and 1 B), I will be accepted for Spring semester at a really good academic University (it has improved a lot recently and is now being compared to Whitman College and Stanford for the west coast). Since I have a bad transcript following me from a previous college, attending this university and doing really well at it would definitely improve my application a lot.
My statistics class has been a complete nightmare. There is no homework, the syllabus outlines what chapters are covered on the exams, the class is supposed to be conceptual stats but the exams ask only applied questions, and the only helpful link is to wikipedia. Additionally, the TA and instructor have no responded to my emails or any of the other students' emails. There are 3 exams and 2 retake exams and the grade for the class is entirely dependent on the exam scores, and all the exams need to be proctored. I hired a tutor by the second week to help get me through this very unstructured class (the textbook is worthless.)
I had the 2 midterm exams and the final exam all sent to the proctor center at a local college and I used the online proctor site to orchestrate everything. I have taken one exam and I wanted to retake it to try and get as good of a grade in the class as possible, since it's an option. I schedule my appointment for the retake, the 2nd midterm, and the final for this Tuesday. The exams have to be submitted by Dec. 10th (Thursday) at 8am (so they have to be completed on Wednesday, since no proctor office is open before 8am), and the syllabus strictly says 'no exceptions'.
I got an email yesterday informing me that my appointment times had been given away to students from the college that offered the testing services, and that they had a completely full schedule on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. None of the testing centers or the proctoring help phone line are open until 8am tomorrow. I went to the proctoring website and tried to sign up for another proctor and it wouldn't let me. I finally discovered I could take it 'on-campus' at the university I was taking the course through (which is 2+ hours away), but I could only send the 2 tests that hadn't been sent to my original proctor. So I sent them both to the on-campus testing center and signed up from tomorrow and Tuesday, and there's a bunch of open spots on Tuesday at another time.
I plan to call the proctoring center first thing tomorrow to see if I can get the tests sent to the on-campus testing, even though they've already been sent out. I don't know how they'll feel about sending out proctored exams more than once, but it's obvious that they don't like to do it, since I couldn't do it online.
Sorry this has been such a long post! I'm just really freaked out that they might not let me take 2 of the tests (one of which is the final). I can't believe the other university gave my appointments away at the last minute and didn't offer me another appointment time! If I can't take the exams, there is no way I will pass the class, and there will be a huge ugly mark on my transcripts and I won't get into the university I want. I already emailed the instructor to notify him of the dilemma and that I may need him to okay having the exams sent out a second time... and hopefully, they will get to the testing center in time for me to take them and there will be an open appointment time still.
I'm taking all 4 courses online this term. If I do well (A's and B's, which at the moment, I have 3 As and 1 B), I will be accepted for Spring semester at a really good academic University (it has improved a lot recently and is now being compared to Whitman College and Stanford for the west coast). Since I have a bad transcript following me from a previous college, attending this university and doing really well at it would definitely improve my application a lot.
My statistics class has been a complete nightmare. There is no homework, the syllabus outlines what chapters are covered on the exams, the class is supposed to be conceptual stats but the exams ask only applied questions, and the only helpful link is to wikipedia. Additionally, the TA and instructor have no responded to my emails or any of the other students' emails. There are 3 exams and 2 retake exams and the grade for the class is entirely dependent on the exam scores, and all the exams need to be proctored. I hired a tutor by the second week to help get me through this very unstructured class (the textbook is worthless.)
I had the 2 midterm exams and the final exam all sent to the proctor center at a local college and I used the online proctor site to orchestrate everything. I have taken one exam and I wanted to retake it to try and get as good of a grade in the class as possible, since it's an option. I schedule my appointment for the retake, the 2nd midterm, and the final for this Tuesday. The exams have to be submitted by Dec. 10th (Thursday) at 8am (so they have to be completed on Wednesday, since no proctor office is open before 8am), and the syllabus strictly says 'no exceptions'.
I got an email yesterday informing me that my appointment times had been given away to students from the college that offered the testing services, and that they had a completely full schedule on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. None of the testing centers or the proctoring help phone line are open until 8am tomorrow. I went to the proctoring website and tried to sign up for another proctor and it wouldn't let me. I finally discovered I could take it 'on-campus' at the university I was taking the course through (which is 2+ hours away), but I could only send the 2 tests that hadn't been sent to my original proctor. So I sent them both to the on-campus testing center and signed up from tomorrow and Tuesday, and there's a bunch of open spots on Tuesday at another time.
I plan to call the proctoring center first thing tomorrow to see if I can get the tests sent to the on-campus testing, even though they've already been sent out. I don't know how they'll feel about sending out proctored exams more than once, but it's obvious that they don't like to do it, since I couldn't do it online.
Sorry this has been such a long post! I'm just really freaked out that they might not let me take 2 of the tests (one of which is the final). I can't believe the other university gave my appointments away at the last minute and didn't offer me another appointment time! If I can't take the exams, there is no way I will pass the class, and there will be a huge ugly mark on my transcripts and I won't get into the university I want. I already emailed the instructor to notify him of the dilemma and that I may need him to okay having the exams sent out a second time... and hopefully, they will get to the testing center in time for me to take them and there will be an open appointment time still.