Examiners' expectations from us were too high. We were expected to write 4 essays with 5 references per essay in 3 hours where we were required to guess the chapter, the theory, and google online journals etcetera. It was too much to handle. I suggest we get a portfolio as an exam for this module.
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Sekiwe
5 years ago
The format of the question paper was not what the lecture communicated with us as student,
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Mamello
5 years ago
The questions were difficult to understand. The exam was set in such a way that we couldn't finish the paper. This was an unfair exam!
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Tsepo Shabangu
5 years ago
Questions were ambigous. In another question basically told not to use the textbook which produced more confusion
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Monique Thomas
5 years ago
How is it feasable for 4 essay questions to be written in 3 hours plus referencing , referencing in an exam ?????
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Jennie Masalla
5 years ago
Good day
I'm one of many students that are unhappy about pyc4810 exam paper for several reasons has mentioned in email that was send to the module lecturers.
Thank in advance
Kind regards
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Anastasia Proskurin
· petition starter
5 years ago
Extract from our email detailing why
what was expected of us was highly unreasonable:
1. The paper required us to use APA referencing throughout, a request that unique to this module. No other module expects us to make academic citations in a time-limited paper, as it simply impossible to do with the amount of referencing required in this paper.
2. The e-reserves provided for us were irrelevant to the exam content, which meant we had to spend our time looking online for academic articles and reading through them, during a timed exam.
3. As you can see in the attached paper, most questions required us to cite 5 sources outside of our text book for each question, and one going as far as to ban us from using the 600 page textbook we were instructed to summarize in preparation for the exam.
This, combined with points 1 & 2, means that this paper was in practice impossible to complete.
4.This module suffered from poor communication all year, including during exam preparation. Our request for chapters to focus on from a 600 page book were refused by our lecturers. Instead, we were told that we also need to study all the above-mentioned e-reserves, which ended up being irrelevant to the exam paper. We were told of the expected referencing method an hour before the exam.
5. Some students struggled with the submission of assignments due to the system malfunctioning, but were not accommodated.
6. The lecturers have now released a statement that they will be lenient with the marking, and that students will not be penalized for not using correct referencing. That does not help us in any way, as most of us wasted most of our exam time looking for relevant articles.
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Zanele Mamba
5 years ago
Exam was unfair cant look fo reference with a timed exam.
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Middah
5 years ago
Request for fairness treatment in this module,re-write in some way
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Mafethe
5 years ago
I agree I couldn't submit the system was slow until it closed
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Anonymous
5 years ago
We need a re-exam,or assignment to replace the exam and should be fairly set
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Anonymous
5 years ago
The examination was a bit intense.... Can we please have a rewrite of the structure we are used to.
Unfair Examination for PYC4810
Examiners' expectations from us were too high. We were expected to write 4 essays with 5 references per essay in 3 hours where we were required to guess the chapter, the theory, and google online journals etcetera. It was too much to handle. I suggest we get a portfolio as an exam for this module.
The format of the question paper was not what the lecture communicated with us as student,
The questions were difficult to understand. The exam was set in such a way that we couldn't finish the paper. This was an unfair exam!
Questions were ambigous. In another question basically told not to use the textbook which produced more confusion
How is it feasable for 4 essay questions to be written in 3 hours plus referencing , referencing in an exam ?????
Good day I'm one of many students that are unhappy about pyc4810 exam paper for several reasons has mentioned in email that was send to the module lecturers. Thank in advance Kind regards
Extract from our email detailing why what was expected of us was highly unreasonable: 1. The paper required us to use APA referencing throughout, a request that unique to this module. No other module expects us to make academic citations in a time-limited paper, as it simply impossible to do with the amount of referencing required in this paper. 2. The e-reserves provided for us were irrelevant to the exam content, which meant we had to spend our time looking online for academic articles and reading through them, during a timed exam. 3. As you can see in the attached paper, most questions required us to cite 5 sources outside of our text book for each question, and one going as far as to ban us from using the 600 page textbook we were instructed to summarize in preparation for the exam. This, combined with points 1 & 2, means that this paper was in practice impossible to complete. 4.This module suffered from poor communication all year, including during exam preparation. Our request for chapters to focus on from a 600 page book were refused by our lecturers. Instead, we were told that we also need to study all the above-mentioned e-reserves, which ended up being irrelevant to the exam paper. We were told of the expected referencing method an hour before the exam. 5. Some students struggled with the submission of assignments due to the system malfunctioning, but were not accommodated. 6. The lecturers have now released a statement that they will be lenient with the marking, and that students will not be penalized for not using correct referencing. That does not help us in any way, as most of us wasted most of our exam time looking for relevant articles.
Exam was unfair cant look fo reference with a timed exam.
Request for fairness treatment in this module,re-write in some way
I agree I couldn't submit the system was slow until it closed
We need a re-exam,or assignment to replace the exam and should be fairly set
The examination was a bit intense.... Can we please have a rewrite of the structure we are used to.
Exam was unfair and time consuming
The paper was not fair.