I am trying to do a grade appeal, if approved, i graduate nursing school..
Here is the situation..
On my exam 4, about shock and burns, there was a question about a mechanical ventilator in a burned patient...in one of the answers options it said "bun" instead of burn, so i did not pick it. Of course the misspelled word was the correct answer. I am trying to fight this question and get my point back because one point is all i need to be at a passing grade and to graduate. I am 0.17% away from what i need.
In the beginning of the semester, my professor posted an announcement stating "Never assume I have made a mistake in the answer options. If I have made a mistake it will NEVER count against you" So if this hold true, then this question should be thrown out and I would pass the class. However, my teacher is refusing to go by her word and will not award me the point. In my appeal i brought this up and it was totally ignored by my professor and used "spell check" as an excuse instead.
On top of this, she has now told me (5 days before graduation) that she made another error in calculating my exam score and I actually got one more wrong than she thought. Mind you, this exam was taken at the beginning of the semester and now is being brought up 5 days before graduation when I was trying to get my point back. If my teacher stuck by her word, none of this would be happening.
You actually bring up an excellent point, did others taking the OP's test assume "Bun" was a typo and mark that as the correct answer? Or did they all choose the wrong answer based on the misspelling? I would think that if the instructor reviewed OP's exam she most likely reviewed other test takers answers as well, since she is not giving you the point I would assume the majority of other people answered the question correctly despite the misspelling.
If you read my other comments. the instructor was not present. there was only a proctor that administered the exam and did not know anything about the content.
Really, you didn't pick what appeared to be the right answer simply because of an obvious typo?
That is very poor test-taking and you don't deserve to have the question tossed.
And frankly, if your success hinges on 0.17% between passing and failing, your performance is marginal at best and hardly warrants a boost.
THESE WERE ONE WORDED ANSWERS. I thought it meant "bun" as in the lab value. DO NOT comment on my performance when you know nothing more than what i have written. I did EXACTLY what was instructed of me by my professor and did not assume it was a mistake. simple as that
THESE WERE ONE WORDED ANSWERS. I thought it meant "bun" as in the lab value. DO NOT comment on my performance when you know nothing more than what i have written. I did EXACTLY what was instructed of me by my professor and did not assume it was a mistake. simple as that
Well, you made a big deal about how you were going by what your instructor said about never assuming she made a mistake on an exam. If I saw "bun" as an option on an exam, I would think that the lab value would have been written BUN or blood urea nitrogen, not bun. I would also be almost sure that it would have had a lab value next to it as well, which would have been within range or out of range, to determine if it was appropriate for whatever patient was described in the question.
But that's not really important. The important part here is - I don't think ~♪♫ in my ♥~ was talking about what you thought "bun" was. What, I think, ~♪♫ in my ♥~ was saying (correct me if I'm wrong ~♪♫ in my ♥~) was - If you knew the information that you were being tested on, and had good test taking skills, you would have been able to take the information that you knew, break down the question, figure out what it was asking, and look at the answer choices - which one's do not answer what the question stem is asking? If you did that, and knew about the information you were being tested on (really knew it), you would have been able to rule out the 3 options and been left with "bun."
The main point is that your passing the class hinged on 0.17%. Again, what I think ~♪♫ in my ♥~ was saying (again, please correct me if I'm wrong ~♪♫ in my ♥~) was that you didn't really learn the information well throughout the entire class. If you had, your passing would not have hinged on 0.17%. You wouldn't of even have been worried about what grade you were getting on the exam, because you would have been passing the class and missing a few questions wouldn't change that. However, the fact that missing one or two questions hinged on you passing or failing the class, it means that you didn't really have a good grasp on what you had learned during that class this semester.
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THESE WERE ONE WORDED ANSWERS. I thought it meant "bun" as in the lab value. DO NOT comment on my performance when you know nothing more than what i have written. I did EXACTLY what was instructed of me by my professor and did not assume it was a mistake. simple as that
BUN (blood-urea-nitrogen) would not be bun, but BUN.
And the point that a lot of people are tying to make is that it is NOT just one question that caused you to fail. It was lack of understanding of the material as evidenced by your score on the test. And you might want to think about the attitude when you are asking for help: Shouting isn't going to get you anywhere.
When you ask for people's opinions....you get just that..THEIR OPINIONS. If you wanted people to just tell you what you wanted to hear, you should've requested that. You are blindly asking on a forum what people think but are angry it wasn't what you expected. Don't take the responses personally as no one personally knows you. Just some food for thought.
However, you missed a lot of other questions too and a lot of other things throughout the semester to put your grade in this fragile state.
This. You say if your teacher had stuck by her word none of this would be happening. But bigger picture - perhaps if you had known the content better, none of this would be happening.
I've read on the following pages you've passed. May I suggest you spend time after graduation learning to reflect and receive criticism. Everyone gets it as a new nurse and you seem to respond over defensively - seniors won't respond well. It's not a dig, but honest advice.
nurse83522h
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Yes many students got this wrong because of this.