Questions dropped from exams...

[ElDienteLoco]

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Administrators at my school determine -through statistical analysis- what questions, if any, on an exam should be thrown out. I suppose I am okay with that, but here at my school, a question is simply dropped as though it never existed. For example, we had a clinical medicine exam a couple of weeks ago and I scored 24/30. That would have been an 80%. Three questions were dropped from the exam and my final score became 21/27, a 77.8%. I don't want to be a freak about grades, but that dropped my exam score from a B to a C+.

I talked to the administrators in charge and they told me it was school policy to drop the questions as though they never existed. I was told that this is how most dental schools handle "bad" exam questions. Is this how it is done at your schools?

Just curious.

 

[Maxillicious]

Definately not. The bad questions are thrown out and everyone gets a point in the event that it does.

 

[rocknightmare]

same here.. but it really depends on the professor.

 

[MsPurtell]

That's exactly how it was handled during our first two years of school.

Administrators at my school determine -through statistical analysis- what questions, if any, on an exam should be thrown out. I suppose I am okay with that, but here at my school, a question is simply dropped as though it never existed. For example, we had a clinical medicine exam a couple of weeks ago and I scored 24/30. That would have been an 80%. Three questions were dropped from the exam and my final score became 21/27, a 77.8%. I don't want to be a freak about grades, but that dropped my exam score from a B to a C+.

I talked to the administrators in charge and they told me it was school policy to drop the questions as though they never existed. I was told that this is how most dental schools handle "bad" exam questions. Is this how it is done at your schools?

Just curious.

 

[Dental08?09]

Definately not. The bad questions are thrown out and everyone gets a point in the event that it does.

Ditto!

We all get credit should a question deem to be "bad"

Although, some professors do drop questions and in the end if it affects your grade, individuals can request an adjustment. For instance I had an overall class avg of a B-, but bec 4 total questions were dropped from 2 exams I requested to get my grade re-evaluated and ended up with a B.

Your school sucks man. I would have your class pres talk to the deans. I mean what else is your class pres good for if he doesn't back you on this. Even if it takes multipe meetings, I'm sure they will do what my school does...if it affects your OVERALL grade then it will be adjusted.

 

[QTpieDMD]

In my school we have a wall review. We all get a copy of our answers and can check them to the correct ones. Afterwards we go to the wall at a certain time and the test is up with all the answers (for about an hour). Then we can go to the professor or course director and tell them our challenges. If we back it up with text and more than one answer is correct than we can get other answers accepted. It's only happened once or twice the entire year that questions have been thrown out because statistically students did poorly.

 

[groundhog]

Administrators at my school determine -through statistical analysis- what questions, if any, on an exam should be thrown out. I suppose I am okay with that, but here at my school, a question is simply dropped as though it never existed. For example, we had a clinical medicine exam a couple of weeks ago and I scored 24/30. That would have been an 80%. Three questions were dropped from the exam and my final score became 21/27, a 77.8%. I don't want to be a freak about grades, but that dropped my exam score from a B to a C+.

I talked to the administrators in charge and they told me it was school policy to drop the questions as though they never existed. I was told that this is how most dental schools handle "bad" exam questions. Is this how it is done at your schools?

Just curious.

Not very funny at the moment, but it will make a great conversation piece in the years to come. "All good comedy is based tragedy." I mean what are the odds: you are likley one of the few who got two of the the three tossed questions correct which results in your getting a lower grade 😕

 

[Tzips]

Happened to me twice already in physio - my grade dropped by ~2 points each time. Kinda frustrating, especially in a class where I need all the help I can get (as does the rest of the class; I think 70 people failed one of the exams, urk). And the worst bit? One of the questions (it was a math-type) was dropped because they failed to include the correct answer in the answer choices...and it was a repeat from the year before, when they also had to drop the question. Sometimes I have the urge to become paranoid...