Just to clarify, if you receive a D (59.5%-75%) in the class (not just on the exam) you have to remediate the class. Below 59.5% average in the class you have to repeat the year.
I’m not sure I agree with the “NYU students need to study harder” comment above. If 75% failed the exam then we need to look at the least common denominator here which is the professors and how they teach. D3 students don’t just all of a sudden not study for 1 class and hope they do well. They been in school for a while now so most should know how to study at this point.
I've spoken as a D4 perspective.
Perhaps, if an outsider was to hear you, they might agree. If I wasn't in NYU, I would also agree with you. What you say is assuming that the difficulty of the courses are the same or similar. Clearly, this course and exam was not.
When a D3 posts what happened and mention what happened last year, every.single.post conveniently forget to post the details.
1. We had 8 tries for the competency, unlike this year's 4 tries. But we had to get 100% in ours, unlike their 80%. That 20% difference is significant.
2. Our exams did not identify which questions were for the competency. This year's did.
3. We initially had 80% cutoff for the exam to pass. This year had 75%.
I had taken a look at some of the questions from this year's exam. They were more refined, clear, and straightforward. EVERY SINGLE D4 I've spoken to craps on the D3 class. Not the course. YES, the course is difficult. YES it is entirely their fault that they failed. You can't be blaming on the faculty when the past year class did well and the majority passed with more challenges.
What's more, the D3 had the recalls. We did not last year. They KNEW what kind of questions to expect. What the difficulty would be.
At the end of the course, we had 1 or 2 students completely drop out because of this course.
So yes, the D3 class as a whole need to study harder. Seeing their complaint in multiple dental related groups is pathetic. I'm sorry many of them failed. I'm not sorry they didn't study hard enough. Stop looking for sympathy from outsiders for lack of effort.