Uni ‘sorry’ for not allowing enough time for exam

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1. >**They added the issue was identified shortly before the start of the exam**, but said subsequent room bookings meant it was not possible to extend the session

   So…they went ahead anyway? Sounds like a well-run university.

2. Its first year – the exam is irrelevant – give them all 100% and move on.

   I actually got a copy of the paper though:

   Question 1: At what speed will you have to travel to gain an extra hour relative to Earth? Assume you are unable to leave the room and thus gravitational effects can be ignored.

3. At my university, they timed the exams using analogue clocks. Sometimes they overshot by 12 minutes. Sometimes undershot by a few minutes. I complained and no-one seemed to think it was a problem because everyone would be affected the same. The computing department of a Russell group university should have upgraded to digital clocks by now.

4. Slashing budgets,cutting staff and under paid gig hireby the houre lecturers…..

   Nothing to do with these…..

5. I remember at uni when they found out that half the exam questions were wrong in the middle of the exam. All silence went out the window, and people were sharing answers for the questions that were correct. They then got the right exam questions and then proceeded to make us stay to do them, leading to an over 4 hour exam. When we complained, the university basically took no responsibility and did nothing about it even though there was cheating going on and everything.

6. When I moved here to work at a uni I was surprised the academics weren’t in the room when students were writing it. The invigilators don’t know anything about the exam or the topic and neither do they have an interest in fairness for the students, only fairness at a system level.

   I got rid of exams in my course entirely because I hated not being in the room with them to fight this kind of thing. Not only are projects a better indicator of student performance, it’s something they can put on a CV.

7. Make the grading system 33% easier to account for the 1/3 lost time

8. Surprised this is even on BBC news. They can easily just scale the results. They do it all the time to normalise between years. And this is a first year Physics exam so the results don’t even go towards your final grade. So they might just make it a pass fail exam and not even bother scaling.

   I’ve had final year exams that had wrong questions on it. This really is nothing

9. Who lost their job is the question here. Somebody is responsible for this incompetence not being found out. Every student now needs to start at 33% of the grade instead of zero. If they don’t then a class action lawsuit should be filed.

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