I should probably admit that I've never actually asked anyone to mark any work - they just didn't offer. And I'm sure if they did, a lot of the time I wouldn't have finished it.
An extra problem is that at the same time as supervisors not doing marking, supervisions have become less going-over-examples and more asking-about-general-points (and we'll go over specific questions if someone asks, but not otherwise), and the groups have got bigger, so there's even less chance of working out questions you're stuck on.
Some supervisors give out worked examples, and some give 2.5 hour supervisions so they can fit everything in, but to be honest there's not really a satisfactory solution. I think maybe we're just growing out of this kind of supervision.
Also, I'm sometimes in favour of lecturers supervising - the soft matter supervisor last term couldn't make any more sense of the lecture notes than we could some of the time. At least if the lecturer had been doing it he could have seen first-hand what was wrong with his lectures.
Here ends the incoherent whining. And thank you for the sympathy.
An extra problem is that at the same time as supervisors not doing marking, supervisions have become less going-over-examples and more asking-about-general-points (and we'll go over specific questions if someone asks, but not otherwise), and the groups have got bigger, so there's even less chance of working out questions you're stuck on.
Some supervisors give out worked examples, and some give 2.5 hour supervisions so they can fit everything in, but to be honest there's not really a satisfactory solution. I think maybe we're just growing out of this kind of supervision.
Also, I'm sometimes in favour of lecturers supervising - the soft matter supervisor last term couldn't make any more sense of the lecture notes than we could some of the time. At least if the lecturer had been doing it he could have seen first-hand what was wrong with his lectures.
Here ends the incoherent whining. And thank you for the sympathy.
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