Mr LA Nickola
University of South Africa
Chair of Department
Department of Electrical and Mining Engineering
[email protected]
Re: Petition for the revision of the examination results of Electrical Protection 4.
We, the student of B-Tech Electrical Engineering wrote the Electrical Protection 4 (PRT470-1) exam on the 23rd of October 2019.
We feel that the examination results do not reflect the true effort that was put in by us as students.
The consensus is that the marks are extremely low and for some students, repeating the subject a second time, the marks are even lower than the previous year.
Some of the reasons identified by us as students that contributed to the low marks are as below:
The memorandum of the assignment had many errors which causes confusion of what is the correct method to solve problems in the exam.
Reviewing previous memorandums of assignments also revealed that the same questions were marked differently by the same lecturer.
All previous examination papers indicated that the use of programmable pocket calculators was allowed. Students purchased very expensive programmable pocket calculators as a tool to work faster and excel in the exam.
On the day of the exam these where not allowed to be used which put students at a huge disadvantage.
Unisa being an online distance learning institution, were you study at your own pace, we rely on the guidelines of the assignments, memorandums, past examination papers and other materials to assist us in the preparation for the exam.
We humbly request that you investigate the issue and grant those that didn’t make it a second chance in a form of supplementary, rewrite or any other means the UNISA recommends.
We hope this will get your favourable consideration.
Below are some the names and signatures of the students that were affected by this as reference to the matter at hand.
Kind Regards
30 Comments
The marks are an indication of lack of understanding from the marker. The are many ways to to tackle protection problems. But ,seemingly if you did not duplicate the the memorandum you fail. This course is not a course where you have a cast answer.
I strongly agree with the petition. How are we suppose to prepare for a teest with wrong memos and also pass a test that is marked from wrong memos
The memos are faulty misleading and in bad condition. Even upon finding mistakes on the memos the tutor told us to do it wrong otherwise we will loose points. Getting to the exam and suddenly running around to borrow a normal calculator was no fun, time consuming and very distracting. I feel that not the assignments nor the exams are being marked intelligently. Can this matter please be investigated thoroughly.
I also agreed to above petition I feel like I was robbed in marking as I was more prepared for the subject compared to the other ones I wrote and I passed. The memorandum had errors.
Student 55723063 Memos are misleading us and the department need to take this issue seriously.
The examination was easy,but looking at the low marks and failure rate,it does not make sense.
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Mr LA Nickola
University of South Africa
Chair of Department
Department of Electrical and Mining Engineering
[email protected]
Re: Petition for the revision of the examination results of Electrical Protection 4.
We, the student of B-Tech Electrical Engineering wrote the Electrical Protection 4 (PRT470-1) exam on the 23rd of October 2019.
We feel that the examination results do not reflect the true effort that was put in by us as students.
The consensus is that the marks are extremely low and for some students, repeating the subject a second time, the marks are even lower than the previous year.
Some of the reasons identified by us as students that contributed to the low marks are as below:
The memorandum of the assignment had many errors which causes confusion of what is the correct method to solve problems in the exam.
Reviewing previous memorandums of assignments also revealed that the same questions were marked differently by the same lecturer.
All previous examination papers indicated that the use of programmable pocket calculators was allowed. Students purchased very expensive programmable pocket calculators as a tool to work faster and excel in the exam.
On the day of the exam these where not allowed to be used which put students at a huge disadvantage.
Unisa being an online distance learning institution, were you study at your own pace, we rely on the guidelines of the assignments, memorandums, past examination papers and other materials to assist us in the preparation for the exam.
We humbly request that you investigate the issue and grant those that didn’t make it a second chance in a form of supplementary, rewrite or any other means the UNISA recommends.
We hope this will get your favourable consideration.
Below are some the names and signatures of the students that were affected by this as reference to the matter at hand.
Kind Regards
30 Comments
In 2017 i wrote protection was sure i passed, i failed so badly i didnt even make it for supp. I think the lecturer is unfair he marks the answer and doesn't even look at the method. Protection is my last subject at Unisa and if i fail it again i will be repeating it for the 4th time now.
The marks are an indication of lack of understanding from the marker. The are many ways to to tackle protection problems. But ,seemingly if you did not duplicate the the memorandum you fail. This course is not a course where you have a cast answer.
I strongly agree with the petition. How are we suppose to prepare for a teest with wrong memos and also pass a test that is marked from wrong memos
The memos are faulty misleading and in bad condition. Even upon finding mistakes on the memos the tutor told us to do it wrong otherwise we will loose points. Getting to the exam and suddenly running around to borrow a normal calculator was no fun, time consuming and very distracting. I feel that not the assignments nor the exams are being marked intelligently. Can this matter please be investigated thoroughly.
I also agreed to above petition I feel like I was robbed in marking as I was more prepared for the subject compared to the other ones I wrote and I passed. The memorandum had errors.
Student 55723063 Memos are misleading us and the department need to take this issue seriously.
The examination was easy,but looking at the low marks and failure rate,it does not make sense.
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In 2017 i wrote protection was sure i passed, i failed so badly i didnt even make it for supp. I think the lecturer is unfair he marks the answer and doesn't even look at the method. Protection is my last subject at Unisa and if i fail it again i will be repeating it for the 4th time now.