Monday, December 05, 2005
quite pissed off at the moment...
and also slowly seeing the reasoning.
I got back my mark for the first of the three presentations last week. and pretty much sucked. though the marking is a load of bollox (Can i get aways with saying that?)
allow me to explain...so, our prof was marking (which counts for a quarter), our TA was marking (another 1/4) and then some random lady (another 1/4), who is apparently the prof(susan's) friend, and is starting her masters in jan. The last 1/4 comes from the average of all the student markers. So, we get an average of 81% from the students, which i'm pretty ok with. but the prof/TA/random lady mark....not so much. they all gave us in the mid 60s (65, 63 and 62.5)...those combined with the students is 68...a freaking C
now, looking back, i realize we (it was a group presentation/project) could have done a better job, but i don't think it was a C. the thing that pisses me off the most, is susan was like, oh the markers (minus the students ) were all really consistant when they got together and compared their marks. BUT on our marking sheets it looks to me like a lot of changes were made (as in decrease marks) to make their marks similar. frick...its kinda complicated to explain, and it probably is legit, but if you met this woman you would understand my stong dislike for her. She puts on this air or superiority, and is probably the least approachable person i have ever met in my life. If you email her a question, she gives you a blunt answer that makes you feel incredibly stupid. For example, we had a bunch of forms to fill out on fieldwork (strengths and weaknesses), and i was confused by what was it was written on this purple paper (this is significant), and so i asked her, and her response: have you checked the purple sheet - it is clearly laid out there...I'm like seriously???? thats why i was asking idiot - i was confused!!!!
can you feel the rage?
anyway, i'm just angered by the whole situation, and suprised by the amound of marks we lost...we ended up with 5/10 on a bunch of things on the marking guide, and i just don't see how we lost that many marks....
gah! so pissed off.
but really nothing i can do now, other than study my booty off for the final
I got back my mark for the first of the three presentations last week. and pretty much sucked. though the marking is a load of bollox (Can i get aways with saying that?)
allow me to explain...so, our prof was marking (which counts for a quarter), our TA was marking (another 1/4) and then some random lady (another 1/4), who is apparently the prof(susan's) friend, and is starting her masters in jan. The last 1/4 comes from the average of all the student markers. So, we get an average of 81% from the students, which i'm pretty ok with. but the prof/TA/random lady mark....not so much. they all gave us in the mid 60s (65, 63 and 62.5)...those combined with the students is 68...a freaking C
now, looking back, i realize we (it was a group presentation/project) could have done a better job, but i don't think it was a C. the thing that pisses me off the most, is susan was like, oh the markers (minus the students ) were all really consistant when they got together and compared their marks. BUT on our marking sheets it looks to me like a lot of changes were made (as in decrease marks) to make their marks similar. frick...its kinda complicated to explain, and it probably is legit, but if you met this woman you would understand my stong dislike for her. She puts on this air or superiority, and is probably the least approachable person i have ever met in my life. If you email her a question, she gives you a blunt answer that makes you feel incredibly stupid. For example, we had a bunch of forms to fill out on fieldwork (strengths and weaknesses), and i was confused by what was it was written on this purple paper (this is significant), and so i asked her, and her response: have you checked the purple sheet - it is clearly laid out there...I'm like seriously???? thats why i was asking idiot - i was confused!!!!
can you feel the rage?
anyway, i'm just angered by the whole situation, and suprised by the amound of marks we lost...we ended up with 5/10 on a bunch of things on the marking guide, and i just don't see how we lost that many marks....
gah! so pissed off.
but really nothing i can do now, other than study my booty off for the final
Comments:
I think it's quite fine to use the word bollocks.. though I was watching the commentary on hitchhickers guide to the galaxy last night and they use that word in the movie and apparently were quite suprised they got away with it in Britian, because it's actually a pretty crude word. Means testicles or something. Now you know.
Carolyn
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