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[DMDcanada]

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Just wondering if anyone who failed a class or unit by a few percent tried to speak to the course coordinator/ program director to try and find a way to pass. For example, lower the passing grade required, changing the weiight of the exam, or rereading the exam. If so, were u successful? is this frowned upon to sort of 'beg for marks'?

thanks

 

[njbmd]

Since the entire department sets the mean for our courses, begging was pretty useless. If you didn't pass, you didn't pass. Put this behind you so that you can move on with what comes up next. If you fail a course, remediate and keep going forward.

 

[coffeebythelake]

Just wondering if anyone who failed a class or unit by a few percent tried to speak to the course coordinator/ program director to try and find a way to pass. For example, lower the passing grade required, changing the weiight of the exam, or rereading the exam. If so, were u successful? is this frowned upon to sort of 'beg for marks'?

thanks

Never needed to try. Yes, it is considered begging for marks.

 

[BSN2DOC]

There was a student in my nursing class that failed 2 classes, pharmacology and ped's. Quite a few failed, but this particular student decided to go beg the professors to pass him so he didn't have to repeat those 2 classes. The professors of course told him that he failed... accept it... move on... and take the classes over again and do better next time. That is what the other students did when they failed. However, this particular student wouldn't take that as an answer and instead threatened law suits, sent out mass emails to all of the students and faculty stating why he should have passed and provided his attorney's phone number. Well.. the student obviously got no where and ended up having to repeat those 2 classes the following semester (we only have 2 week breaks between semesters, thus he had to face them 2 weeks later after getting his attorney involved and sending out viscious emails).. needless to say, I bet that was an awkward situation!

The moral.. if you failed... accept it... move on... and do better next time. It is unfortunate for you but everyone was graded using the same scale and no one student should be given special treatment.

 

[SocialistMD]

Just wondering if anyone who failed a class or unit by a few percent tried to speak to the course coordinator/ program director to try and find a way to pass. For example, lower the passing grade required, changing the weiight of the exam, or rereading the exam. If so, were u successful? is this frowned upon to sort of 'beg for marks'?

thanks

If you didn't pass, it means you didn't know the baseline minimum of information the director of the class feels is necessary to be competent in that area. Don't argue about it, just try harder next time; mix up the way you study, get a (better) study partner, find practice questions, etc...

 

[coffeebythelake]

There was a student in my nursing class that failed 2 classes, pharmacology and ped's. Quite a few failed, but this particular student decided to go beg the professors to pass him so he didn't have to repeat those 2 classes. The professors of course told him that he failed... accept it... move on... and take the classes over again and do better next time. That is what the other students did when they failed. However, this particular student wouldn't take that as an answer and instead threatened law suits, sent out mass emails to all of the students and faculty stating why he should have passed and provided his attorney's phone number. Well.. the student obviously got no where and ended up having to repeat those 2 classes the following semester (we only have 2 week breaks between semesters, thus he had to face them 2 weeks later after getting his attorney involved and sending out viscious emails).. needless to say, I bet that was an awkward situation!

The moral.. if you failed... accept it... move on... and do better next time. It is unfortunate for you but everyone was graded using the same scale and no one student should be given special treatment.

Yep, that would suck.

 

[jope]

This is kind of related...

At my school, 20 or so students failed a block that wasn't the best taught (class avg was about 10% lower than all the other blocks) and they're organizing a mass appeal. They're even asking people that didn't fail to send an email along saying how it was an unfair test. This might be a reasonable idea if you could muster up enough students.

I honored that block, but I was wondering would there be any harm in helping my classmates appeal? Two of my friends did fail the test and it'd be nice if I could help them out, but I worry about stuff going on file etc or being seen as a whiner.

 

[78222]

This is kind of related...

At my school, 20 or so students failed a block that wasn't the best taught (class avg was about 10% lower than all the other blocks) and they're organizing a mass appeal. They're even asking people that didn't fail to send an email along saying how it was an unfair test. This might be a reasonable idea if you could muster up enough students.

I honored that block, but I was wondering would there be any harm in helping my classmates appeal? Two of my friends did fail the test and it'd be nice if I could help them out, but I worry about stuff going on file etc or being seen as a whiner.

If you agree that it was an unfair block then you should let that determine your actions, not what someone in the administration might think. It's really a character issue, are you a standup guy/girl or not...

 

[cpants]

I honored that block, but I was wondering would there be any harm in helping my classmates appeal? Two of my friends did fail the test and it'd be nice if I could help them out, but I worry about stuff going on file etc or being seen as a whiner.

You have to ask yourself if the test was really unfair. Just because a block is much harder than other blocks doesn't mean it's unfair. Were you tested on material for which you were not responsible? Was there a fire alarm in the middle of the exam? Was the time given for the exam cut short by mistake?

If not, I don't think the course directors or the deans are going to care too much. They won't recurve or readmininster an exam just because the mean went down 10 points. In fact, they may have made the test much harder on purpose, to bring the class average down.

I wouldn't sign my name to any petition unless you legitimately believe there were irregularities in the exam or its administration.