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This petition was created by the students enrolled in the class BIOL 3306 in an effort to make a formal complaint about the format of exam 2, and the lack of review in this class regarding homework, quizzes, and exam content. Collectively as a class, we have failed to understand your course material and we wish to take action and resolve the problems by raising our concerns to you.
We were told as a class that our exam would be multiple choice, just for there to be numerous free-response questions on the exam, many students felt very misled as a result.
Although we are able to access recitations (which we are very grateful for) not everyone can make it to recitations due to other classes, work, etc. and we believe that working through problems as we learn our course material would be essential to understanding the homework and quizzes better. There is no working of problems during class, and we feel that the lectures cover vague concepts without showing us how to apply them; specifically in regards to the problems using formulas.
Another issue students had was the fact that no answers to the homework were posted for this last exam, and thus we were unable to understand the reasoning behind our wrong answers.
The past exams that are given to us, are useless when there is no explanation of how to solve them. We would like to ask if there is any way to have review sessions as a class, for problems to be worked out during the lecture for practice, for homework/quiz answers to be posted after their due dates with explanations, and for the format of our exams to be as specified.
Unanimously we ask for a curve, and a major change in the way we are taught so the money we pay towards our tuition can reflect the education we are receiving in return. The effort we are putting in is being met with poor grades, and we implore you to reconsider the way BIOL 3306 is taught. Thank you.
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November 5, 2021
Seeing this much support for our cause is exhausting yet validating. I honestly did not think this many people would acknowledge how difficult this semester has become. We are keeping the pressure on the department because this is far from over.
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need answer keys for the hw. how are we supposed to learn from our mistakes if we dont know what the right answer is???
An easy class turned into a confusing slope of difficulty. The homework and quizzes rarely prepare you for the exams, nor do the lectures. There are no practice problems to work with when having math involved such as quantitative traits, and vague lectures turn into specific questions on the exam. If the professors are happy with a 50% median, then you will know they are happy giving the bare minimum. Never had a class like this, and I took Chemistry (which means a lot).
Professors copy the textbook onto slides and just reads them put during lecture. These professors do not provide enough extra material to understand the material properly and there’s not enough outside of the classroom either.
Along with what Alan has commented, those scores would be a C if there were perfect score on quizzes and homework or at least meeting the maximum of 25 points between the two. This seems unlikely given the lack of explanation and low test grades, the point system should be reconsidered in our benefit as well as employing more extra credit to help your students.
Average score was a 64 on the first exam and a 50 on the second. At this rate the average grade in the class is a C. And I did the math out of 200+ students less than 10 students have a solid A and a little less than a handful have a high B. Unacceptable in terms of thinking the average to above average student has an understanding of the material that was given.
I hate this class
Noemy is pretty cool
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This petition was created by the students enrolled in the class BIOL 3306 in an effort to make a formal complaint about the format of exam 2, and the lack of review in this class regarding homework, quizzes, and exam content. Collectively as a class, we have failed to understand your course material and we wish to take action and resolve the problems by raising our concerns to you.
We were told as a class that our exam would be multiple choice, just for there to be numerous free-response questions on the exam, many students felt very misled as a result.
Although we are able to access recitations (which we are very grateful for) not everyone can make it to recitations due to other classes, work, etc. and we believe that working through problems as we learn our course material would be essential to understanding the homework and quizzes better. There is no working of problems during class, and we feel that the lectures cover vague concepts without showing us how to apply them; specifically in regards to the problems using formulas.
Another issue students had was the fact that no answers to the homework were posted for this last exam, and thus we were unable to understand the reasoning behind our wrong answers.
The past exams that are given to us, are useless when there is no explanation of how to solve them. We would like to ask if there is any way to have review sessions as a class, for problems to be worked out during the lecture for practice, for homework/quiz answers to be posted after their due dates with explanations, and for the format of our exams to be as specified.
Unanimously we ask for a curve, and a major change in the way we are taught so the money we pay towards our tuition can reflect the education we are receiving in return. The effort we are putting in is being met with poor grades, and we implore you to reconsider the way BIOL 3306 is taught. Thank you.
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November 5, 2021
Seeing this much support for our cause is exhausting yet validating. I honestly did not think this many people would acknowledge how difficult this semester has become. We are keeping the pressure on the department because this is far from over.
10 Comments
The bait and switch on the exam format was honestly so unfair. We all studied for multiple choice and got hit with free response questions we never even practiced. Hard to succeed when the goals are moving targets.
need answer keys for the hw. how are we supposed to learn from our mistakes if we dont know what the right answer is???
An easy class turned into a confusing slope of difficulty. The homework and quizzes rarely prepare you for the exams, nor do the lectures. There are no practice problems to work with when having math involved such as quantitative traits, and vague lectures turn into specific questions on the exam. If the professors are happy with a 50% median, then you will know they are happy giving the bare minimum. Never had a class like this, and I took Chemistry (which means a lot).
Professors copy the textbook onto slides and just reads them put during lecture. These professors do not provide enough extra material to understand the material properly and there’s not enough outside of the classroom either.
Along with what Alan has commented, those scores would be a C if there were perfect score on quizzes and homework or at least meeting the maximum of 25 points between the two. This seems unlikely given the lack of explanation and low test grades, the point system should be reconsidered in our benefit as well as employing more extra credit to help your students.
Average score was a 64 on the first exam and a 50 on the second. At this rate the average grade in the class is a C. And I did the math out of 200+ students less than 10 students have a solid A and a little less than a handful have a high B. Unacceptable in terms of thinking the average to above average student has an understanding of the material that was given.
I hate this class
Noemy is pretty cool
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The bait and switch on the exam format was honestly so unfair. We all studied for multiple choice and got hit with free response questions we never even practiced. Hard to succeed when the goals are moving targets.