Pass Or Fail?????

[Tonyas00]

I'm in pharmacolgy right now and we just took our dosage exam and we had to make a 93 or better on it or we fail the class. Our teacher gave us a practice exam, the real exam, and if you still didn't make it then you had one more chance. Well there were 2 girls in my class that didn't make it because they put 0.5 tab instead of 1/2 tab. All of their math was correct they just did not put 1/2. So they failed the class, they can finish the other 2 classes we have but they cannot move on next semester, they have to wait another year and just take pharmacology. Another thing in the back of our book when it gives you the answers it says 1/2 OR 0.5. They had a meeting with our teacher and the director and they said that meant they had to put both answers, which is not right OR means either one, AND means both. but anyway they met with the dean today so I won't know what happened until tomorrow. I was just curious what you thought about it, and if this has happened to anyone else. personally i think it is ridiculous. The teachers reasoning was you cannot give 0.5 of a tablet you have to give 1/2 well to my understanding 0.5=1/2 it is just written in a different way. Let me know what you think.

[retour_divin]

THIS IS STUPID! STUPID, STUPID, STUPID, STUPID. What in the HELL has happened to common sense anymore? They complain that they're turning out book smart people without common sense and then they quibble about whether the correct answer is 1/2 or 0.5 ?! For crying out loud, does anyone in their right mind think that medical programs are this stupid? Of course not, they have more important things to worry about. Give me a break. Those instructors should be ashamed of themselves. And if they're this ridiculous over a med math exam just imagine the type of NCLEX questions they come up with.