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I am currently at a local community college, finishing up my pre requisites...And I need some advice...I recently took an anatomy class at this college, and our class caught our instructor grading unfairly...Such as several of us put the same answer on an exam, she marked some of us right and some of us wrong... We pointed this out to her hoping she had made an honest error, and instead she snatched our exams from us and told us "to quit scrounging for points" This continued for the following 8 exams. 11 of us decided to take pictures of our exams to prove this. We then put a letter together, had most of the class sign it, and we turned it in to the President of academic affairs...We thought he would help, but no help so far...We attended a board meeting and went on the record, and we have a scheduled meeting with the Dean, & President again this week. Needless to say, the teacher failed the ones who signed this letter. I have 70 units at this college, mostly excellent grades, with the exception of this "F" on my transcript...I am challenging my grade as I feel I was cheated out of points on my exams...Then we found out that this is not a 2 year community college course, it is a MASTERS DEGREE anatomy course. They are trying to pass it off as a beginning course, when it is clearly not. I have since registered at another community college to finish up my last 2 classes, and I am tempted to sign up at a private nursing school. I don't mind paying out the wazoo, as long as its a fair grading scale...Any advice as how we should handle this horrible grade as a class?? We have pictures in black and white where she marked us differently for the same answer and also she would deduct 6 1/2 points on a 4 point question. Refuses to give us our points...

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It sounds as if you have already done what you need to do. Continue to document everything ... summarize that documentation ... and be prepared to share it when you think you need to (e.g. along with your application to nursing school). Once you are accepted into nursing school, the incident will dramatically fade in importance and it will probably not be significant again -- but keep the documentation just in case you need it in the future.

Your approach should be to minimize its importance. Don't make it a bigger deal than it needs to be. You probably should explain it with your application to nursing school ... but keep it brief, factual, and professional. That's probably the only time you will have to share the story.

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I am currently at a local community college, finishing up my pre requisites...And I need some advice...I recently took an anatomy class at this college, and our class caught our instructor grading unfairly...Such as several of us put the same answer on an exam, she marked some of us right and some of us wrong... We pointed this out to her hoping she had made an honest error, and instead she snatched our exams from us and told us "to quit scrounging for points" This continued for the following 8 exams. 11 of us decided to take pictures of our exams to prove this. We then put a letter together, had most of the class sign it, and we turned it in to the President of academic affairs...We thought he would help, but no help so far...We attended a board meeting and went on the record, and we have a scheduled meeting with the Dean, & President again this week. Needless to say, the teacher failed the ones who signed this letter. I have 70 units at this college, mostly excellent grades, with the exception of this "F" on my transcript...I am challenging my grade as I feel I was cheated out of points on my exams...Then we found out that this is not a 2 year community college course, it is a MASTERS DEGREE anatomy course. They are trying to pass it off as a beginning course, when it is clearly not. I have since registered at another community college to finish up my last 2 classes, and I am tempted to sign up at a private nursing school. I don't mind paying out the wazoo, as long as its a fair grading scale...Any advice as how we should handle this horrible grade as a class?? We have pictures in black and white where she marked us differently for the same answer and also she would deduct 6 1/2 points on a 4 point question. Refuses to give us our points...

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I am so sorry you are going through this, it is very sad.

I am not sure about a "Masters Program" anatomy class because I have never seen an anatomy class on that lever other than in a phD program for a medical school. Do not focus on the content of the class - because that is opinion not based on fact.

I would also be careful about admitting you took pictures of exams. In my university, regardless the reason, taking pictures of exams is grounds for expulsion as they can be used to cheat. I would keep working up the chain of command and speak in generalities..."On exam 3, there was a question about _______ that a bunch of us answered the same and some of us got it right and some got it wrong". The people doing the investigation can pull the tests and see for themselves.

My anatomy class had a spelling requirement... if you didn't spell it correctly you got the question wrong. Could this be the case?

Good luck.

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I am currently at a local community college, finishing up my pre requisites...Then we found out that this is not a 2 year community college course, it is a MASTERS DEGREE anatomy course.

You are going to have to explain this. Community Colleges do not offer Masters level classes.

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Im a great speller, however her power points were constantly mis-spelled..We were allowed to keep our lab tests, and those are the ones we have pictures of...She also made errors on our lecture exams, however she collected those :) ty for the good advice

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The secretary to the President of Academic Affairs stated that this is a Master's Degree level course. It's not basic anatomy. I've had Dr friends tell me they didn't learn the things she is teaching until Med school. The course description is not accurate to what the class is being held responsible to learn. Should I post a link to the class?

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A community college only offers undergraduate degrees, therefore could not offer any graduate courses!

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Here is the course description...We had 24 people in our class 17 of them had a bad grade by the 7th week. Some dropped etc...Even the extremely smart students ended up with a B or C. And that was only a few of them. We had 3 LVN's that got an F or D. Teacher didn't know they were LVN's... This description in my opinion is very inaccurate & misleading. We studied over 60 hours a week for an F...

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[TD]Prerequisite: Completion of BIOL 100 or 101 or 110 or 120. ADVISORY: Eligibility for College Level Reading, and Eligibility for Math 070. Introduction to the structure and function of the human body. Included are lectures and demonstrations using models, isolated specimens and multimedia images of human anatomy. Laboratory study includes demonstrations and dissections of a cat and other animal and human material, including the cadaver. Completion of this class requires full participation and use of all lab materials. NOTE: This course is taken by students who wish to enter the Associate Degree Nursing Program, students who plan to combine their education in various healthcare fields, and students who plan to transfer to four-year institutions to major in biology (CSU, UC, AVC)[/TD]

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Here is also a link to her rate my professor, which I didn't find until it was too late. But it seems the students are consistent..

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I do appreciate all comments & advice. It helps to restore the hope her class took away from so many of us :)

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