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Two Fridays ago (so 10/9) we had our first pharm exam. These instructors for some reason opted for deliverance via TopHat (everyone else uses BlackBoard - the pharm profs are a quirky group) which gives instantaneous feedback after the exam closes. So, at 10 AM when it was closed I checked my grade (was worried because essentially how the exam went is Q1 was fine, then Q2 I was like "wow, this one is hard, let me go to the next one and come back" except I had the same reaction to about half of the test). Anyways, I was freaking out because I had *barely* passed based on my calculations. I immediately began to review some of my wrong answers and scratched my head as some of the answers that I was certain were right were marked wrong, so I wrote these ones down and sent off an email to the professors. Prior to receiving any response, one of the professors messaged sometime along the lines of "These aren't your final grades, there were some points assigned prior to the test [whatever that means], and the faculty has to meet to review the exam." which was odd, and when I finally obtained responses from the professors about the questions it was essentially like "these are good points, we have to meet with the other faculty but the question will probably get dropped."
On Monday we had a calculation quiz and the professor mentioned the faculty was meeting that afternoon to review the exam so finalized grades would be posted that evening or the next day. Well, it's 9 days later and we've had no further update. And, as it turns out, I have spoken with over half a dozen classmates regarding the exam and most of those classmates marginalized, and the only two that had also passed scored even lower than I did (I was exactly 2 points above the marginal mark)
The running theory is the professors decided to make a difficult exam assuming that the class would use notes, even though it was not made an open note exam. Anyways, I have no idea what the resolution is going to be and the fact that it is so overdue is making me anxious.
On Monday we had a calculation quiz and the professor mentioned the faculty was meeting that afternoon to review the exam so finalized grades would be posted that evening or the next day. Well, it's 9 days later and we've had no further update. And, as it turns out, I have spoken with over half a dozen classmates regarding the exam and most of those classmates marginalized, and the only two that had also passed scored even lower than I did (I was exactly 2 points above the marginal mark)
The running theory is the professors decided to make a difficult exam assuming that the class would use notes, even though it was not made an open note exam. Anyways, I have no idea what the resolution is going to be and the fact that it is so overdue is making me anxious.