Buggery bollocks
I have just seen on the university portal that my marks form this year have been confirmed and I seem to have passed. Although my brain won't actually accept this, I'm still waiting for a letter telling me something has gone wrong or it was a clerical error.
Regardless of this I have a gripe with my marks, perhaps best explained in this email I sent to my lecturer.
Hi Mark
A quick question. I have just seen that the unit marks have finally
been confirmed on the portal today, however my work based leaning mark
has almost halved in the process. I turned in reasonable performances
in both talk-throughs, reflected in the artifact marks on the portal
and received 75% for my patient journey, an assignment I re-wrote in
it's entirety this yeah without reusing material. As for the clinical
paperwork and competency framework you said that I have "met (and in
many instances significantly exceeded) the minimum clinical thresholds
for progression". The only grey area is that of the Polly's signature
on the white paperwork, which has yet to be updated and still says
fail.
Is this the reason for the reduced mark, in so much as that unit will
now count as referred despite me not having to actually produce
another item of coursework? While of course I am please to have finally passed
the first year (over the last nine years, this is my third attempt,
although not all radiography) the lustre has been taken off slightly
by what I considered my stronger area becoming, statistically
at least, my weakest.
I'd be grateful for any clarification you could offer.
Jon.
The answer I receive basically amounts to "Because them's the rules" plus a lot of explanations of things I already know.
So yeah, passed, with a good mark in some units but a really shitty mark in the unit I actually cared about and I felt exemplified my abilities and worth as a radiographer. I am beginning to feel that the emphasis on this degree is more on teaching us to fill in paperwork and jump through clerical hoops rather than actually teaching us to be radiographers.
Here's to the second year.
Also: My bluetooth mouse has stopped working and may now be broken as I've just thrown it at the wall on the other side of the room. I hate fucking laptop trackpads.
Regardless of this I have a gripe with my marks, perhaps best explained in this email I sent to my lecturer.
Hi Mark
A quick question. I have just seen that the unit marks have finally
been confirmed on the portal today, however my work based leaning mark
has almost halved in the process. I turned in reasonable performances
in both talk-throughs, reflected in the artifact marks on the portal
and received 75% for my patient journey, an assignment I re-wrote in
it's entirety this yeah without reusing material. As for the clinical
paperwork and competency framework you said that I have "met (and in
many instances significantly exceeded) the minimum clinical thresholds
for progression". The only grey area is that of the Polly's signature
on the white paperwork, which has yet to be updated and still says
fail.
Is this the reason for the reduced mark, in so much as that unit will
now count as referred despite me not having to actually produce
another item of coursework? While of course I am please to have finally passed
the first year (over the last nine years, this is my third attempt,
although not all radiography) the lustre has been taken off slightly
by what I considered my stronger area becoming, statistically
at least, my weakest.
I'd be grateful for any clarification you could offer.
Jon.
The answer I receive basically amounts to "Because them's the rules" plus a lot of explanations of things I already know.
So yeah, passed, with a good mark in some units but a really shitty mark in the unit I actually cared about and I felt exemplified my abilities and worth as a radiographer. I am beginning to feel that the emphasis on this degree is more on teaching us to fill in paperwork and jump through clerical hoops rather than actually teaching us to be radiographers.
Here's to the second year.
Also: My bluetooth mouse has stopped working and may now be broken as I've just thrown it at the wall on the other side of the room. I hate fucking laptop trackpads.