Posted by alexandra_k on November 22, 2014, at 20:31:33
In reply to Re: balance, posted by alexandra_k on November 21, 2014, at 1:41:42
actually... you know... i think something weird happened with my biology grade...
i got 5/5 for this online nonsense. and then i got 18.17/20 for labs. the only problem with that is pretty much everyone picked up those marks, so it doesn't settle a distribution (just means that some kids can be failed because if they didn't even do those components of the course...)
then i got 21.96/35 for the first test. which was a very bad grade, i thought. i was unhappy. but then, i hadn't read the book and i hadn't studied particularly much (it was before the study break), and i didn't know we were going to be asked to draw pictures...
so i went in to the exam with 45.13/60 possible marks... which is looking like an A- (75%)...
i did prepare for the exam. not massively... but reasonably... i did quite a bit... and i worked through past years... and i thought i had done quite well on the exam... not amazingly... but quite well...
was thinking I would come out with a B+ or an A-.
To have come out with a B... Means I only just passed the exam. That... That really doesn't sound right. I am certain I did a lot better than that.
Unless they scaled the living crap out of them. So the grading distribution was set by performance on the first test, since everyone picked up comparable marks for the other internally assessed components (except possibly the lowest quarter).
I still know a bunch of kids who wouldn't have done any preparation and who wouldn't have worked through past years exams and who didn't have a copy of the textbook... Did they all get C's??? WTF??? This seems super-weird to me.
I've sent a query... To inquire about whether the scaled the crap out of the exam... I don't know whether they are allowed to say anything... Only official channel is paying a lot of money for a recount. You don't even get that money back if they f*ck*d it up.
I have requested my exam script.. But that takes months (won't come back until after grades are finalised, fairly sure). I had forgotten all the closing of ranks / *ss covering you get working for the man...
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