Bournemouth University Final Year Forensic Science Students Lacked Guidance For AFS Exam
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Hayden Scott-pratt
9 years ago
Student ref: 4606426
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Laura Oxley
9 years ago
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little to no advice was given in this course with regard to the exam, leaving us with only the three past papers and the hint that fires and blood would be included to use as a guide for revision. The paper didn't include a fire question; despite the fact we were told both fires and blood would be examinable. And the rest of the questions didn't follow the previous exam styles at all. In particular the blood question was on a niche method of bpa analysis designed and used by the guest speaker; something not found in any text book or general bpa material.
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Parth Patel
9 years ago
The exam was given with a lack of preparation, and was in different layout to the previous exams
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Lisa Tanner
9 years ago
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Nothing like previous papers. Questions were on things either briefly explained during a single lecture or didn't feature at all. Items featured heavily during the unit did not feature at all in the exam but appears on all past papers.
Layout should have been made clearer.
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Alice Galligar
9 years ago
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Having done a great amount of revision for this exam, I still came out feeling worried. The new system of 4 questions out of 6 mad this exam very stressful and some of the questions were highly specific and, had you not covered that very small topic during revison, therefore impossible to adequately answer. Additionally, one of the questions included was only covered in passing during the entirety of the lectures we received. Overall, a rather unfair exam which felt time it was made to trip us up rather than assess out knowledge and understanding of the topic.
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Charlotte Loy
9 years ago
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The paper was different to all previous years and the questions relied heavily on memorizing a particular chart or diagram and not breadth of forensic content.
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Edwin van der sar
9 years ago
Test was appalling
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Taylor wilson
9 years ago
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The exam was a joke. The questions were on minute topics that were briefly mentioned and the major topics that had previously come up weren't there at all. The lecture gave no help at all or any indication at potential topics where as every other lecturer had. There is no way we could memorise 19 two hour lectures for one two hour exam. The whole period after the last lecture was an absolute shambles and it needs to be changed to stop and future final years failing the exams because the lecturer can be bothered to help anyone.
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Corey wiggins
9 years ago
Agree that there was not sufficient support for this exam.
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Kirsty Walker
9 years ago
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I agree particularly with the lack of guidance on the new paper and specificity of the first two questions which lead to difficult decisions when choosing questions.
Student ref: 4606426
little to no advice was given in this course with regard to the exam, leaving us with only the three past papers and the hint that fires and blood would be included to use as a guide for revision. The paper didn't include a fire question; despite the fact we were told both fires and blood would be examinable. And the rest of the questions didn't follow the previous exam styles at all. In particular the blood question was on a niche method of bpa analysis designed and used by the guest speaker; something not found in any text book or general bpa material.
The exam was given with a lack of preparation, and was in different layout to the previous exams
Nothing like previous papers. Questions were on things either briefly explained during a single lecture or didn't feature at all. Items featured heavily during the unit did not feature at all in the exam but appears on all past papers. Layout should have been made clearer.
Having done a great amount of revision for this exam, I still came out feeling worried. The new system of 4 questions out of 6 mad this exam very stressful and some of the questions were highly specific and, had you not covered that very small topic during revison, therefore impossible to adequately answer. Additionally, one of the questions included was only covered in passing during the entirety of the lectures we received. Overall, a rather unfair exam which felt time it was made to trip us up rather than assess out knowledge and understanding of the topic.
The paper was different to all previous years and the questions relied heavily on memorizing a particular chart or diagram and not breadth of forensic content.
Test was appalling
The exam was a joke. The questions were on minute topics that were briefly mentioned and the major topics that had previously come up weren't there at all. The lecture gave no help at all or any indication at potential topics where as every other lecturer had. There is no way we could memorise 19 two hour lectures for one two hour exam. The whole period after the last lecture was an absolute shambles and it needs to be changed to stop and future final years failing the exams because the lecturer can be bothered to help anyone.
Agree that there was not sufficient support for this exam.
I agree particularly with the lack of guidance on the new paper and specificity of the first two questions which lead to difficult decisions when choosing questions.