Dear Fellow Peers and Colleagues,
I'm starting this online petition to air and vent our dismay towards the Risk Management for Banking exam we sat on 15th May 2015. The exam was completely unfair, the terminology used in the questions were incomprehensible, and had not been exposed to them neither in the lectures or seminars. The exam was very irregular and after speaking to several students, I personally believe we have a strong claim and issue at hand here as the majority of the people who sat the exam were very disappointed. We were asked to focus only on the topics discussed in the revision lectures, agreed that a minority of the topics revised showed up on the final exam, but if thats the case why waste the students' valuable time with such a lectures, when instead we could have been advised to revise everything.
I'm asking all students who share such frustration and distress, to electronically sign this petition now before the papers are marked so we can be graded fairly and accordingly, before its too late.
Best Regards,
Updates
May 25, 2015
The department cannot bury this disaster now that so many of us are refusing to stay silent. This momentum shows the faculty that their garbage exam was not just a mistake but a blatant insult to our time.
8 Comments
Possibly the worst exam I have ever experiencedue in my life. To open an exam read over it and think there is no way I will pass this is demoralising. This paper was no where near similar to previous papers. The content to topics we were asked in my personal opinion were topics we didn't cover enough in lectures.... truly shocked and just hope that the resit will be a better exam
Many of the question where not adiquetelty taught or given significant attention during the course of the module but where then structured as must answer question in the examination.
We are aware of this issue raised about ECOM055 Risk Management for Banking exam. Please be assured that the appropriate procedures will be used so that no students will be disadvantaged if there is any exam discrepancy. If you have any futher questions please contact me [email protected]
Made every other exam look like GCSEs
A high number of students found this paper difficult. This removes any question or doubt of the amount of hard work/revision put in. A high number of students have worked tirelessly for these exams and the performance of many of these students on this exam highlights the extreme and abnormal difficulty faced. End of the day, we are learning Risk Management for the first time (for majority of students this is the case) and to ask questions of us that are not entirely related to lectures is absurd. We do not have work experience and further knowledge of Risk Management that we can turn to when faced with open-ended questions. Our knowledge of the topic is limited only to the 7 lectures that we covered. Along with studying 7 other modules and completing a 3000 word essay, where are we supposed to gather extra information that was required from us in the exam? We have not got enough time to understand all the topics to the degree of the lecturer. We have invested a great deal of time, effort and lets not forget money in to completing our Master's degree. We expect some degree of understanding from our lecturers. The lecturer has clearly only thought about her own module and not given consideration to the fact that her module is composited with 7 other modules. We are not doing a Master's degree in Risk Management for Banking. If that was the case then I would expect an exam of the difficulty we faced because we would have been adequately prepared. We were not adequately prepared by the lecturer for the exam we sat. We are asking that some consideration is enforced when our papers are marked and a degree of sensitivity to this issue is applied. Thank you.
It was unfair and the revision lecture was irrelevant with the exam and I didn't understand what the questions are asking.
horrible exam, not even testing our knowledge but rather our ability to copy and paste useless information. Nothing to do with risk.
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Dear Fellow Peers and Colleagues,
I'm starting this online petition to air and vent our dismay towards the Risk Management for Banking exam we sat on 15th May 2015. The exam was completely unfair, the terminology used in the questions were incomprehensible, and had not been exposed to them neither in the lectures or seminars. The exam was very irregular and after speaking to several students, I personally believe we have a strong claim and issue at hand here as the majority of the people who sat the exam were very disappointed. We were asked to focus only on the topics discussed in the revision lectures, agreed that a minority of the topics revised showed up on the final exam, but if thats the case why waste the students' valuable time with such a lectures, when instead we could have been advised to revise everything.
I'm asking all students who share such frustration and distress, to electronically sign this petition now before the papers are marked so we can be graded fairly and accordingly, before its too late.
Best Regards,
Updates
May 25, 2015
The department cannot bury this disaster now that so many of us are refusing to stay silent. This momentum shows the faculty that their garbage exam was not just a mistake but a blatant insult to our time.
8 Comments
Besides considering for this year's exam, I think from next year this module should be fully reorganized. At MSc level everyone expects to learn theories as well as getting some flavor of how do they work in real world. The theories taught in this module also require more explanations for better understanding.
Possibly the worst exam I have ever experiencedue in my life. To open an exam read over it and think there is no way I will pass this is demoralising. This paper was no where near similar to previous papers. The content to topics we were asked in my personal opinion were topics we didn't cover enough in lectures.... truly shocked and just hope that the resit will be a better exam
Many of the question where not adiquetelty taught or given significant attention during the course of the module but where then structured as must answer question in the examination.
We are aware of this issue raised about ECOM055 Risk Management for Banking exam. Please be assured that the appropriate procedures will be used so that no students will be disadvantaged if there is any exam discrepancy. If you have any futher questions please contact me [email protected]
Made every other exam look like GCSEs
A high number of students found this paper difficult. This removes any question or doubt of the amount of hard work/revision put in. A high number of students have worked tirelessly for these exams and the performance of many of these students on this exam highlights the extreme and abnormal difficulty faced. End of the day, we are learning Risk Management for the first time (for majority of students this is the case) and to ask questions of us that are not entirely related to lectures is absurd. We do not have work experience and further knowledge of Risk Management that we can turn to when faced with open-ended questions. Our knowledge of the topic is limited only to the 7 lectures that we covered. Along with studying 7 other modules and completing a 3000 word essay, where are we supposed to gather extra information that was required from us in the exam? We have not got enough time to understand all the topics to the degree of the lecturer. We have invested a great deal of time, effort and lets not forget money in to completing our Master's degree. We expect some degree of understanding from our lecturers. The lecturer has clearly only thought about her own module and not given consideration to the fact that her module is composited with 7 other modules. We are not doing a Master's degree in Risk Management for Banking. If that was the case then I would expect an exam of the difficulty we faced because we would have been adequately prepared. We were not adequately prepared by the lecturer for the exam we sat. We are asking that some consideration is enforced when our papers are marked and a degree of sensitivity to this issue is applied. Thank you.
It was unfair and the revision lecture was irrelevant with the exam and I didn't understand what the questions are asking.
horrible exam, not even testing our knowledge but rather our ability to copy and paste useless information. Nothing to do with risk.
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Besides considering for this year's exam, I think from next year this module should be fully reorganized. At MSc level everyone expects to learn theories as well as getting some flavor of how do they work in real world. The theories taught in this module also require more explanations for better understanding.