Bad lab grade due to defective lab equipment ..

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We had a Physics lab today and my group received totally defective lab equipment. We could not get and reasonable data.
The professor acknowledged that and told us to copy the data from another group. It turned out that the data of that group was wrong and hence our group received a bad grade ..
Now what should I do? Obviously it is not our groups fault, because we were given defective equipment. 🙄

 

[Wolfman89]

We had a Physics lab today and my group received totally defective lab equipment. We could not get and reasonable data.
The professor acknowledged that and told us to copy the data from another group. It turned out that the data of that group was wrong and hence our group received a bad grade ..
Now what should I do? Obviously it is not our groups fault, because we were given defective equipment. 🙄

Maybe you were supposed to telepathicly know that the other group's data was wrong?🙄

 

[WhizoMD]

We had a Physics lab today and my group received totally defective lab equipment. We could not get and reasonable data.
The professor acknowledged that and told us to copy the data from another group. It turned out that the data of that group was wrong and hence our group received a bad grade ..
Now what should I do? Obviously it is not our groups fault, because we were given defective equipment. 🙄

I'm assuming you turn in a lab report, and not just data? If that's the case then you were probably supposed to know that the data was wrong (compare to accepted values), and explain in the report what could have led to the data being wrong.

 

[Morsetlis]

Actual yield is just a small part of lab grades. Error analysis is a big part too. Finally, TA's are usually understanding, and you should have gone over your results before leaving the class.

 

[riverjib]

We had a Physics lab today and my group received totally defective lab equipment. We could not get and reasonable data.
The professor acknowledged that and told us to copy the data from another group. It turned out that the data of that group was wrong and hence our group received a bad grade ..
Now what should I do? Obviously it is not our groups fault, because we were given defective equipment. 🙄

So what's the problem? Your prof told you to copy lab data from another group. Even if you had to use your own data, the numbers are (at most) 10% of your grade on one of 10-15 labs. The point is that you can explain sources of error, even those that didn't affect your work.

What are you worried about???

 

[phattestlewt]

i would say i feel your pain, BUT I DONT
HAHA

 

[bigal40]

Just explain it in your personal statement and/or interviews.

 

[red10]

either talk to the TA and/or SUCK IT UP. It's one lab.🙄

 

[NoMoreAMCAS]

You're just screwed. Many of my labs were the same way, especially in chemistry. They would give of us crappy equipment and expect excellent yields. It basically turned into the majority of students making up their data to save their grade. My advice would be from now on just figure out what type of results the professor will be looking for and make up something very similar.

 

[chman]

Just explain it in your personal statement and/or interviews.

I lol'd.