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My physics lab class has two different sections with two different TA's.
Each TA is in charge of only their own group's lab and marking of report.
The problem is that the TA in charge of my section is someone who doesn't speak English and very unhelpful.
Most of the time, we need to ask her about certain things more than twice for clarification. But the other TA is completely opposite. He is very good at helping you out during lab compared to my TA, whose marking of lab reports (70% of the grade, ridiculously) is really strict, while his marking is really generous.
How I know this is because I once had to do the lab in his section due to time conflict. I also compared the lab reports marked by him with mine and the ones that got high scores were similar to mine. Some were exactly the same as mine in quality.
I complained about this to course instructor, who doesn't do any markings. But she never responds to this. She seems not to care.
Getting a better/worse mark just because you get a different TA is just ridiculous.
I and several other classmates are thinking that this course needs some serious modifications.
I shouldn't have taken this course in the first place, or if I had to, then I should've signed up for the other TA's section.
I'm so MAD....
Each TA is in charge of only their own group's lab and marking of report.
The problem is that the TA in charge of my section is someone who doesn't speak English and very unhelpful.
Most of the time, we need to ask her about certain things more than twice for clarification. But the other TA is completely opposite. He is very good at helping you out during lab compared to my TA, whose marking of lab reports (70% of the grade, ridiculously) is really strict, while his marking is really generous.
How I know this is because I once had to do the lab in his section due to time conflict. I also compared the lab reports marked by him with mine and the ones that got high scores were similar to mine. Some were exactly the same as mine in quality.
I complained about this to course instructor, who doesn't do any markings. But she never responds to this. She seems not to care.
Getting a better/worse mark just because you get a different TA is just ridiculous.
I and several other classmates are thinking that this course needs some serious modifications.
I shouldn't have taken this course in the first place, or if I had to, then I should've signed up for the other TA's section.
I'm so MAD....