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To Mr Nicholas Howes and the Actuarial Science department.
On Wednesday 13th of May 2015, the second year Actuarial Science students of Cass Business School had sat the Financial Economics paper. The majority of students had found this paper extremely difficult and are not happy with what was being tested. We had studied extremely hard for this exam and although we had all done the relevant reading along with class exercises and past papers, the paper had questions that we were not at all prepared for. We had all read the exam preparation file that was sent to us by the module lecturer and followed what he had said but the paper had not done justice to the amount of time we had spent on preparation for this paper. The exam preparation file link is as follows: http://moodle.city.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=.... It explains that the paper will 'resemble questions that we worked through in class and questions that appear in the exercise sheets.' I'm sure if you have a glance at the paper you will also see our point of view.
This petition was created in order for an action to be taken place as the result of this paper will be on our transcripts. Most students will have to fly back from different countries in order to resit an extremely difficult exam that should have been passed first time.
Kindly acknowledge this petition as we are all very disheartened due to us feeling that the exam was not a fair paper to test us on the knowledge we have got and resources we were given to sit it and take action accordingly.
Yours Sincerely,
Actuarial Science Part 2 Students
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The momentum is incredible. This shows just how unfair that paper truly was.
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I understand that the lecturer wanted to test us but it was beyond the lecture notes and exam materials. I would say that this is unfair for all for us that really studied hard for the exam. We really hope that the university would take this into consideration and please do understand our situation. Thank you.
I have to agree with what has been said about the exam. I've spent an enormous amount of time studying the relevant materials unfortunately the majority of the exam was not what we had prepared for during the lectures and outside of the lectures.
We did not have sufficient material that could have prepared us for this exam. Having done all exercise sheets, past papers, class work and studied countless hours, the exam questions did not resemble any of what we were given as stated it would on moodle.
The exam was totally different to what we were told to expect. I put in so many hours of work and feel like it was a total waste of time because none of it was relevant to the questions on the paper.
Creating and signing a petition means you are accusing a lecturer of setting an unfair paper. This is very disrespectful and action will be taken against students who have signed the petition.
Your petition has been rejected. I told you it was a pointless idea.
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To Mr Nicholas Howes and the Actuarial Science department.
On Wednesday 13th of May 2015, the second year Actuarial Science students of Cass Business School had sat the Financial Economics paper. The majority of students had found this paper extremely difficult and are not happy with what was being tested. We had studied extremely hard for this exam and although we had all done the relevant reading along with class exercises and past papers, the paper had questions that we were not at all prepared for. We had all read the exam preparation file that was sent to us by the module lecturer and followed what he had said but the paper had not done justice to the amount of time we had spent on preparation for this paper. The exam preparation file link is as follows: http://moodle.city.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=.... It explains that the paper will 'resemble questions that we worked through in class and questions that appear in the exercise sheets.' I'm sure if you have a glance at the paper you will also see our point of view.
This petition was created in order for an action to be taken place as the result of this paper will be on our transcripts. Most students will have to fly back from different countries in order to resit an extremely difficult exam that should have been passed first time.
Kindly acknowledge this petition as we are all very disheartened due to us feeling that the exam was not a fair paper to test us on the knowledge we have got and resources we were given to sit it and take action accordingly.
Yours Sincerely,
Actuarial Science Part 2 Students
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May 13, 2015
The momentum is incredible. This shows just how unfair that paper truly was.
11 Comments
I am very disappointed with the students who have signed this petition. In lectures, I repeatedly said that material from the textbooks which I recommended could be examined as well as material from the lecture notes. Professor Ben Rickayzen has been made aware of this petition and all students involved may face action.
I understand that the lecturer wanted to test us but it was beyond the lecture notes and exam materials. I would say that this is unfair for all for us that really studied hard for the exam. We really hope that the university would take this into consideration and please do understand our situation. Thank you.
I have to agree with what has been said about the exam. I've spent an enormous amount of time studying the relevant materials unfortunately the majority of the exam was not what we had prepared for during the lectures and outside of the lectures.
We did not have sufficient material that could have prepared us for this exam. Having done all exercise sheets, past papers, class work and studied countless hours, the exam questions did not resemble any of what we were given as stated it would on moodle.
The exam was totally different to what we were told to expect. I put in so many hours of work and feel like it was a total waste of time because none of it was relevant to the questions on the paper.
Creating and signing a petition means you are accusing a lecturer of setting an unfair paper. This is very disrespectful and action will be taken against students who have signed the petition.
Your petition has been rejected. I told you it was a pointless idea.
asd
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I am very disappointed with the students who have signed this petition. In lectures, I repeatedly said that material from the textbooks which I recommended could be examined as well as material from the lecture notes. Professor Ben Rickayzen has been made aware of this petition and all students involved may face action.