I heart John Crichton.
This has been quite an eventful week. Oh, you'd like to hear about it? Excellent, I'll tell you.
I was dangerously close to getting a 4.0 this semester. I'll tell you just how close- these are the grades that I needed to get on the exams to guarantee an A in the class.
Eng- no final (already knew I was getting an A)
IPC- 60% or above
Chem- 63% or above
EDIS- 89% or above
So the EDIS one is the only one I was worried about. In this class, she's been going back and forth about whether or not the final would be comprehensive. Obviously, I hoped it wouldn't...this meant I would only have to study chapters 9-14, instead of 1-14. So last Thursday she emailed us to say "The final is not going to be comprehensive. Please study chapters 9-14." Exact words. Hooray, I think. So I study. A lot. Because I've already calculated it and I know that an A on this test is the only thing that stands between 4.0. I was extreeemely well-prepared.
Sooo, we get to class on Monday for the exam, and lo and behold...there are 7-9 questions on chapter 8. I don't know exact numbers because we were not permitted to take the exam home with us. I should have counted, but I know there were a few. From a chapter that we were told we did not have to study because it definitely would not be on the exam. Now, I've already been tested over chapter 8, so I remember a lot of it...I walk out of the exam with a B.
This puts me 6 points away from an A, and with an exam of 40 questions worth 100 points total, that 6 points represents 3 questions. I'm pissed.
So the minute I got home from the exam, before I even knew my grade, I check to make sure I'm not an idiot and just studied the wrong chapters, and then I email the professor.
I explain that I feel it was slightly unfair, and ask is there anything that could be done about it. She emails me back today. No, she says. She did not realize that chapter 8 was on the test when she sent out the email, and she cannot simply give me six points. And besides that, we did not know until a few days before the exam that it would not be comprehensive, so 9-14 seemed doable. So I respond and say I think she misunderstood my question- that I don't want her to simply give me six points, but that I feel some sort of compensation should be made not only to me, but to the entire class that received the inaccurate information. I also tell her I feel it is irrelevant that she did not send out the email until Thursday, because an exam does not test how early you started studying, it tests how well you knew the content on the day of the exam. I tell her that 6 points is 3 exam questions- 3 questions which I am certain I would have earned the points for if I had not been told that chapters other than 9-14 definitely would not be on the exam. I feel this is a fair assessment, considering I only missed 6. I ask her would she consider giving an option to take the exam grade based only on the 9-14 information or giving the option to retake the exam- whether this be the same exam, or a different on, as long as we are not provided inaccurate information as to the nature of the exam beforehand. She hasn't responded yet.
What happened was that the department is trying to standardize the course and make each professor give the same final- and this is just starting this semester. So when the professor found out last week that she was allowed to give her own non-comprehensive final, she pulled out one of her old exams from a previous semester and gave it to us. She told us that she was going to do this. She also told us that she would have to double check, since the chapter numbers have changed in the new book, and this exam was made from the old book. I think she just didn't check.
I could not be more pissed about it. I talked to my RA to see what I could do if she refuses to budge, and she said it probably depends on whether the professor as tenure or not. She says what they'd probably tell me is that professors are not required to say exactly what is going to be on the exam beforehand. I think that yes, that's true...but not saying what is going to be an exam beforehand and saying the wrong information, admitting you said the wrong information, and then refusing to do anything about it is are two different things. And it's clear I'm not the only one this affected, because the class average for the final dropped 10 percentage points from the previous two exams.
I personally thing the professor sees my point, but just doesn't want to take the time to do anything, because she has 90 students in the class and also works full time at a special needs school in Toledo.
I'm going to talk to my academic advisor tomorrow.
Sooo, other than that... I took my IPC final today, and have my Chem final on Thursday. As I said, though, I'm not too worried about those since I would have to totally bomb not to get an A in the class. I hope I didn't just jinx myself.
In other news, Elijah was on Punk'd last night. It's up on YouTube here. He's too adorable. Such a sweet boy. We have to get married now. It's official.
I've been so absent from LJ lately. But upon a quick scan of the flist tonight, I found out that..
- I totally missed a lj outage. You'd think I'd be happy about this, but I feel as though I slept through the apocolypse or something. That may be a little dramatic. But you know...like when you walk up to a group of people who are all laughing and you go "What?" and they're all taking deep breaths and like "oooh, nevermind..." Except lj is never like "Oh, nevermind" about outages. So I guess it's not really like that. But you get my meaning. Apparently we were under attack or something.
- There is a new PotC trailer! I'm trying not to be too excited about this movie, because I could very easily have extremely unattainable expectations, and that's never good. But...lafalksgj! Look at it! *makes girly sound*
- Paris Je T'aime. I'm still not 100% certain what this is. Something about 20 love stories. All I know that it has a whooole lot of famous people, and Elijah is extremely adorable in the trailer thingy. This only affirms my decision that the wedding should take place as soon as possible.
Thank you LJ, for all of this very important information.
And one last thing. This is the best video ever. Yes, ever. I keep watching it over and over. John/Aeryn, to Evanescence's My Immortal. It makes me want to watch Dog with Two Bones again, but it appears I only own season 3 collections 1-4. I must rectify this situation as soon as possible.
It's semi-spoilery up through the season 3 finale, but I don't think there's anything past that. Just in case anyone else is as paranoid about these things as I am.
I was dangerously close to getting a 4.0 this semester. I'll tell you just how close- these are the grades that I needed to get on the exams to guarantee an A in the class.
Eng- no final (already knew I was getting an A)
IPC- 60% or above
Chem- 63% or above
EDIS- 89% or above
So the EDIS one is the only one I was worried about. In this class, she's been going back and forth about whether or not the final would be comprehensive. Obviously, I hoped it wouldn't...this meant I would only have to study chapters 9-14, instead of 1-14. So last Thursday she emailed us to say "The final is not going to be comprehensive. Please study chapters 9-14." Exact words. Hooray, I think. So I study. A lot. Because I've already calculated it and I know that an A on this test is the only thing that stands between 4.0. I was extreeemely well-prepared.
Sooo, we get to class on Monday for the exam, and lo and behold...there are 7-9 questions on chapter 8. I don't know exact numbers because we were not permitted to take the exam home with us. I should have counted, but I know there were a few. From a chapter that we were told we did not have to study because it definitely would not be on the exam. Now, I've already been tested over chapter 8, so I remember a lot of it...I walk out of the exam with a B.
This puts me 6 points away from an A, and with an exam of 40 questions worth 100 points total, that 6 points represents 3 questions. I'm pissed.
So the minute I got home from the exam, before I even knew my grade, I check to make sure I'm not an idiot and just studied the wrong chapters, and then I email the professor.
I explain that I feel it was slightly unfair, and ask is there anything that could be done about it. She emails me back today. No, she says. She did not realize that chapter 8 was on the test when she sent out the email, and she cannot simply give me six points. And besides that, we did not know until a few days before the exam that it would not be comprehensive, so 9-14 seemed doable. So I respond and say I think she misunderstood my question- that I don't want her to simply give me six points, but that I feel some sort of compensation should be made not only to me, but to the entire class that received the inaccurate information. I also tell her I feel it is irrelevant that she did not send out the email until Thursday, because an exam does not test how early you started studying, it tests how well you knew the content on the day of the exam. I tell her that 6 points is 3 exam questions- 3 questions which I am certain I would have earned the points for if I had not been told that chapters other than 9-14 definitely would not be on the exam. I feel this is a fair assessment, considering I only missed 6. I ask her would she consider giving an option to take the exam grade based only on the 9-14 information or giving the option to retake the exam- whether this be the same exam, or a different on, as long as we are not provided inaccurate information as to the nature of the exam beforehand. She hasn't responded yet.
What happened was that the department is trying to standardize the course and make each professor give the same final- and this is just starting this semester. So when the professor found out last week that she was allowed to give her own non-comprehensive final, she pulled out one of her old exams from a previous semester and gave it to us. She told us that she was going to do this. She also told us that she would have to double check, since the chapter numbers have changed in the new book, and this exam was made from the old book. I think she just didn't check.
I could not be more pissed about it. I talked to my RA to see what I could do if she refuses to budge, and she said it probably depends on whether the professor as tenure or not. She says what they'd probably tell me is that professors are not required to say exactly what is going to be on the exam beforehand. I think that yes, that's true...but not saying what is going to be an exam beforehand and saying the wrong information, admitting you said the wrong information, and then refusing to do anything about it is are two different things. And it's clear I'm not the only one this affected, because the class average for the final dropped 10 percentage points from the previous two exams.
I personally thing the professor sees my point, but just doesn't want to take the time to do anything, because she has 90 students in the class and also works full time at a special needs school in Toledo.
I'm going to talk to my academic advisor tomorrow.
Sooo, other than that... I took my IPC final today, and have my Chem final on Thursday. As I said, though, I'm not too worried about those since I would have to totally bomb not to get an A in the class. I hope I didn't just jinx myself.
In other news, Elijah was on Punk'd last night. It's up on YouTube here. He's too adorable. Such a sweet boy. We have to get married now. It's official.
I've been so absent from LJ lately. But upon a quick scan of the flist tonight, I found out that..
- I totally missed a lj outage. You'd think I'd be happy about this, but I feel as though I slept through the apocolypse or something. That may be a little dramatic. But you know...like when you walk up to a group of people who are all laughing and you go "What?" and they're all taking deep breaths and like "oooh, nevermind..." Except lj is never like "Oh, nevermind" about outages. So I guess it's not really like that. But you get my meaning. Apparently we were under attack or something.
- There is a new PotC trailer! I'm trying not to be too excited about this movie, because I could very easily have extremely unattainable expectations, and that's never good. But...lafalksgj! Look at it! *makes girly sound*
- Paris Je T'aime. I'm still not 100% certain what this is. Something about 20 love stories. All I know that it has a whooole lot of famous people, and Elijah is extremely adorable in the trailer thingy. This only affirms my decision that the wedding should take place as soon as possible.
Thank you LJ, for all of this very important information.
And one last thing. This is the best video ever. Yes, ever. I keep watching it over and over. John/Aeryn, to Evanescence's My Immortal. It makes me want to watch Dog with Two Bones again, but it appears I only own season 3 collections 1-4. I must rectify this situation as soon as possible.
It's semi-spoilery up through the season 3 finale, but I don't think there's anything past that. Just in case anyone else is as paranoid about these things as I am.