This is in relations to the final end of semester 2 summer PY349 Micro exam paper that was sat by fellow third year Mpharmacy students at the university of Brighton on the 5th of June 2014. Noticed by at least 90% of the year, the paper as a whole did not reflect the knowledge we attained and revised for in preparation of this exam. Further to this the questions appeared too specific and more focused around the content of the BP than the lecture material. The marking allocations to some questions were not justified as for some questions almost half the page was dedicated for a 1 or 2 mark questions. More over there have been multiple complaints regarding the wording of the questions and what the question actually expected from us. The themes were not adequately spread out in the paper in terms of questioning, if to put all the content in one paper is too much then maybe suggest splitting heavy weighted credit modules i.e PY352 exam into two that way at least the students know they will be examined on material they studied as part of the module descriptions and not solely based on "guided study" because again this makes the questioning either too broad or too specific. It was thought that each theme would he equally assessed bar the material that was examined in the lab exam. Further to this, with all the past papers provided we as a year don't feel as it made any difference to the practice of exam style questions because it didn't even reflect on the questions proposed on the paper. Over all the students feel as though they were not examined accordingly based on the knowledge covering the entire year, instead the paper was left too specific and with only a day gap between this exam and PY352 the students felt that even structuring their revision schedule for this exam deemed pointless. All that do agree and would like to raise this issue to the faculty of PABS please sign this petition to claim a justified resolution, Thanks for your time
I HAVE BEEN SPENDING MY ENTIRE MORNING READING YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE RIDICULOUS EXAM QUESTIONS AND THE VAGUE MARKING SCHEMES!! IT IS CLEAR THAT WE ALL FELT COMPLETELY BLINDSIDED BY THIS PAPER AND I AM ALREADY DRAFTING A FORMAL LETTER TO THE DEPARTMENT TO DEMAND SOME REAL ANSWERS!!!
June 5, 2014
THIS MOMENTUM IS ABSOLUTELY UNREAL!! I AM TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY BY THE FORCE OF THIS ENERGY AND WE ARE CLEARLY MAKING NOISE THAT CANNOT BE IGNORED ANY LONGER!! KEEP THIS FIRE BURNING BECAUSE WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED!!
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Amir Mohammed
12 years ago
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unfair paper with very poor guidance by both lecturers and especially past papers, absurd marks allocated to questions and did not at all test solid concept of Microbiology inhibiting students from expressing our hard-earned knowledge
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Roma Mohammed
12 years ago
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This comment for the exam board authorities
Just put your self into their( students)shoes you will automatically see how this unfair exam put all students in terrible stress.plz acknowledge the whole situation and be 100% fair with their exam paper so all the students pass their exam for their 4th year with good faith for their furure exam.
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Aviva Rutagengwa
12 years ago
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We were given very poor guidance for preparing the microbiology exam and the invigilators confused us about NEUTRAL MARKING. We were told that even if we selected a wrong answer in the msq'w we would NOT lose a mark. During the revision session we were told that all the themes would be EVENLY distributed throughout the paper but unfortunately this was not the case. I would strongly suggest that lecturers should give honest and proper full guidance to the students in preparation for the exam. NOT HAPPY AT ALL!!
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Sarah Rodriguez
12 years ago
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The exam was honestly nothing like the past papers we practiced all year. It felt like they tried to trick us with the wording instead of checking if we actually knew the microbiology content. Totally unfair.
R
Roma Mohammed
12 years ago
Featured
Dont unjust with students future be fair and just with their exam paper marking.
J
James Yang
12 years ago
Featured
The mark allocation was a joke. Half a page for 1 mark is ridiculous when you are already under pressure. We deserve better than this.
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This is in relations to the final end of semester 2 summer PY349 Micro exam paper that was sat by fellow third year Mpharmacy students at the university of Brighton on the 5th of June 2014. Noticed by at least 90% of the year, the paper as a whole did not reflect the knowledge we attained and revised for in preparation of this exam. Further to this the questions appeared too specific and more focused around the content of the BP than the lecture material. The marking allocations to some questions were not justified as for some questions almost half the page was dedicated for a 1 or 2 mark questions. More over there have been multiple complaints regarding the wording of the questions and what the question actually expected from us. The themes were not adequately spread out in the paper in terms of questioning, if to put all the content in one paper is too much then maybe suggest splitting heavy weighted credit modules i.e PY352 exam into two that way at least the students know they will be examined on material they studied as part of the module descriptions and not solely based on "guided study" because again this makes the questioning either too broad or too specific. It was thought that each theme would he equally assessed bar the material that was examined in the lab exam. Further to this, with all the past papers provided we as a year don't feel as it made any difference to the practice of exam style questions because it didn't even reflect on the questions proposed on the paper. Over all the students feel as though they were not examined accordingly based on the knowledge covering the entire year, instead the paper was left too specific and with only a day gap between this exam and PY352 the students felt that even structuring their revision schedule for this exam deemed pointless. All that do agree and would like to raise this issue to the faculty of PABS please sign this petition to claim a justified resolution, Thanks for your time
I HAVE BEEN SPENDING MY ENTIRE MORNING READING YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE RIDICULOUS EXAM QUESTIONS AND THE VAGUE MARKING SCHEMES!! IT IS CLEAR THAT WE ALL FELT COMPLETELY BLINDSIDED BY THIS PAPER AND I AM ALREADY DRAFTING A FORMAL LETTER TO THE DEPARTMENT TO DEMAND SOME REAL ANSWERS!!!
June 5, 2014
THIS MOMENTUM IS ABSOLUTELY UNREAL!! I AM TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY BY THE FORCE OF THIS ENERGY AND WE ARE CLEARLY MAKING NOISE THAT CANNOT BE IGNORED ANY LONGER!! KEEP THIS FIRE BURNING BECAUSE WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED!!
6 Comments
A
Amir Mohammed
12 years ago
Featured
unfair paper with very poor guidance by both lecturers and especially past papers, absurd marks allocated to questions and did not at all test solid concept of Microbiology inhibiting students from expressing our hard-earned knowledge
R
Roma Mohammed
12 years ago
Featured
This comment for the exam board authorities
Just put your self into their( students)shoes you will automatically see how this unfair exam put all students in terrible stress.plz acknowledge the whole situation and be 100% fair with their exam paper so all the students pass their exam for their 4th year with good faith for their furure exam.
A
Aviva Rutagengwa
12 years ago
Featured
We were given very poor guidance for preparing the microbiology exam and the invigilators confused us about NEUTRAL MARKING. We were told that even if we selected a wrong answer in the msq'w we would NOT lose a mark. During the revision session we were told that all the themes would be EVENLY distributed throughout the paper but unfortunately this was not the case. I would strongly suggest that lecturers should give honest and proper full guidance to the students in preparation for the exam. NOT HAPPY AT ALL!!
S
Sarah Rodriguez
12 years ago
Featured
The exam was honestly nothing like the past papers we practiced all year. It felt like they tried to trick us with the wording instead of checking if we actually knew the microbiology content. Totally unfair.
R
Roma Mohammed
12 years ago
Featured
Dont unjust with students future be fair and just with their exam paper marking.
J
James Yang
12 years ago
Featured
The mark allocation was a joke. Half a page for 1 mark is ridiculous when you are already under pressure. We deserve better than this.
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unfair paper with very poor guidance by both lecturers and especially past papers, absurd marks allocated to questions and did not at all test solid concept of Microbiology inhibiting students from expressing our hard-earned knowledge