This is what happened: We had this question on the exam about a topic that hadn't been covered. They came to the conclusion that the question should be removed so, instead of 50 questions the test was rescored to 49 and according to their ratio or whatever calculation they made, whoever got the question right, lost 1 point, if you got it wrong, you gained 1 point. Now tell me does this make any sense to you? I was punished twice. 1 because they put a question that shouldn't be there to begin with and 2 because i got it right.
By the way this is XXXX (school name removed)
a lot of people already spoke to the person and she said they wouldn't do anything. Is there a students' protection association, organization, ana...who could handle this??
This just happened today in my class where the teacher threw out 2 of the questions. Honestly, this has happened on almost every test we've taken and you just have to go with it. There are always little discrepancies or contradictions and adjustments are made. Sometimes they are in your favor, sometimes they are not. If you are that close to failing then it's not fair to project that blame on the teacher.
They threw out the question... therefore the point never existed. You didn't actually lose a point and the ones who got it wrong didn't really gain a point. They evened the playing field.
If you had kept the point.. you'd have been given a "bonus" point.. which isn't exactly fair to those who didn't "guess" the right answer.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
We had something similar happen. Solution, the teachers added a question to a future test so the point was still there. See if they will do that. I have seen MANY students not pass by 1 point. So I can see where it is important.
This is what happened: We had this question on the exam about a topic that hadn't been covered. They came to the conclusion that the question should be removed so, instead of 50 questions the test was rescored to 49 and according to their ratio or whatever calculation they made, whoever got the question right, lost 1 point, if you got it wrong, you gained 1 point. Now tell me does this make any sense to you? I was punished twice. 1 because they put a question that shouldn't be there to begin with and 2 because i got it right.
By the way this is ucc/trinitas school of nursing in elizabeth nj.
a lot of people already spoke to the person and she said they wouldn't do anything. Is there a students' protection association, organization, ana...who could handle this??
You didn't lose a point; the question was thrown from the test.
The question never existed. You never got it right and you never got it wrong.
Think of it this way: There are 5 other questions that never appeared on the test. You would have got all 5 right. But they were not put on the test. Did you lose 5 points?
Specializes in Critical Care - Adults, Peds & Neonates.
Just posting to give you an online hug. The majority of the responses in this thread kind of baffle me...... I totally understand where you're coming from OP and I feel for you. Keep your head up.
Don't let this one thing (that in the scheme of things DOES matter since it affects YOUR grade) get you down! :)
It is one point. Don't be petty. Get over it. If you are going to squabble over one point, nursing is going to bite you in the butt once you get into the real world of nursing. Even if there was an organization to contact about this; they would laugh.
I feel your pain over the loss of a point. I'm still ticked, 5 yrs later, over my pharm instructor taking a point off one of my tests because she didn't understand the formula I used to come to my answer (the answer was correct, but that didn't matter...I didn't use her formula.). Talk about being horrified and mortified and disgusted with this instructor. The 1 point was the difference between an A and a B grade....it was a hit to my GPA.
In response to your test points, try looking at it from a different perspective. Whether you answered the question correctly or not is a moot point. The question was thrown out, regardless. So now it's a 49 point test and is graded on how you answered 49 questions. I hope this helps and hang in there :)
I understand your frustration, even though I don't agree with your conclusion. Finding out that your test grade just went down never leaves you with a good feeling.
Also, saying that 1 pt matters bc it could be the difference between passing and failing, I think you are missing a much more important issue. Loosing 1 pt (or 2 or 3) on one test is NOT the problem --> hanging on and just barely passing is the problem. The "C's earn degrees" type of thinking leaves you with no buffer for when these types of issues come up. Same applies if your school has higher grading standards for passing. Whatever line your school sets up for pass/fail, keep your self comfortably above it.
It's frustrating. There were definitely times in school where people would have a raw score lower than mine, but because their wrong questions happened to be the ones that were dropped, would end up getting the same or higher score than what I ended up with.
It happens, and you'll likely be on the benefiting end of that at some point. As long as the problem questions are handled consistently, I don't think it's worth falling on your sword over.
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This just happened today in my class where the teacher threw out 2 of the questions. Honestly, this has happened on almost every test we've taken and you just have to go with it. There are always little discrepancies or contradictions and adjustments are made. Sometimes they are in your favor, sometimes they are not. If you are that close to failing then it's not fair to project that blame on the teacher.