VICTORY!! THE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALLY AGREED TO REVISE THE GRADING SCALE AND ADJUST THE EXAM STRUCTURE TO REFLECT THE MATERIAL TAUGHT IN CLASS!! THANK YOU TO THE 522 OF YOU WHO PUSHED FOR THIS CHANGE WITH ME!! WE WILL KEEP WATCHING TO ENSURE THESE IMPROVEMENTS STAY IN PLACE FOR EVERYONE!!
Greetings Faculty and Students of SUNY-University at Albany,
We are reaching out to you all today to express our feelings, and those of our peers, about the ABIO 121 course that is being taught on this campus by Dr. Robert Osuna and Dr. Jeffery Travis. We feel that this class is very informative and the course work is being taught well however, the way that our knowledge is being measured, meaning the exams, is unfair. Speaking on behalf of my self and a large number of students, this is not the first time we are taking this course. After failing to excel in this course the first time, and deciding to retake the class, we changed our studying techniques. Yet our efforts to do well were not effective. How could this be? To learn basic material more than once, in some cases for a third time, and still come up short. Through this petition our goals are as followed:
1. For current students, change the grading scale so that our efforts are measured appropriately
2. For future students, have the exams measure our knowledge in a fair manner. Meaning, have exams that are appropriate to material taught for an INTRO biology 2 course.
Too much stress. Exams are way harder than they need to be for a 121 course.
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Mike Coleman
13 years ago
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The exams dont reflect what we learn in lecture at all. It feels like they try to trick us instead of testing our actual understanding of bio.
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Sarah Hill
13 years ago
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This class is absolutely brutal. I study for weeks and still dont get the grade I deserve. Something has to give.
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Jessica Harris
13 years ago
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Ridiculous difficulty for an intro class. I spend all my time on this one subject and it still isnt enough.
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David Hayes
13 years ago
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finally someone said it. i took this twice and its the same exact nightmare.
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Lauren Velez
13 years ago
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PLEASE fix the grading scale. Im so tired of working this hard and failing anyway.
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VICTORY!! THE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALLY AGREED TO REVISE THE GRADING SCALE AND ADJUST THE EXAM STRUCTURE TO REFLECT THE MATERIAL TAUGHT IN CLASS!! THANK YOU TO THE 522 OF YOU WHO PUSHED FOR THIS CHANGE WITH ME!! WE WILL KEEP WATCHING TO ENSURE THESE IMPROVEMENTS STAY IN PLACE FOR EVERYONE!!
Greetings Faculty and Students of SUNY-University at Albany,
We are reaching out to you all today to express our feelings, and those of our peers, about the ABIO 121 course that is being taught on this campus by Dr. Robert Osuna and Dr. Jeffery Travis. We feel that this class is very informative and the course work is being taught well however, the way that our knowledge is being measured, meaning the exams, is unfair. Speaking on behalf of my self and a large number of students, this is not the first time we are taking this course. After failing to excel in this course the first time, and deciding to retake the class, we changed our studying techniques. Yet our efforts to do well were not effective. How could this be? To learn basic material more than once, in some cases for a third time, and still come up short. Through this petition our goals are as followed:
1. For current students, change the grading scale so that our efforts are measured appropriately
2. For future students, have the exams measure our knowledge in a fair manner. Meaning, have exams that are appropriate to material taught for an INTRO biology 2 course.
Too much stress. Exams are way harder than they need to be for a 121 course.