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What to do when an instructor has answer wrong but will not correct it?

We recently had a test question specifically a dosage calc problem the instructor had wrong. One of the students even had her work it out and she came up with the answer we all got. This instructor still will not change it and give the credit to us.

I have been to college before and can say I never seen anything like this. There are other arguable questions that have come up but you really cannot argue math.

When students have brought up this issue with other instructors they have basically told us not to rock the boat because this instructor is also in admissions. SMH.

What do we do?

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    You can either go up the chain of command or, as the other instructors suggested, let it slide. Will that one question really make that big of a difference in grades? You will learn that part of being an adult is choosing which battles to pick. Is what the instructor doing right? Not if what you've presented here is the unvarnished truth. Will fighting the battle be worth it?

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    When people do not pass by 1/2 a point yes it matters. There have been other questions too but this is getting ridiculous.

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    Ask another teacher to do the math question and see what they say.

    Do you remember what the question was, by the way?

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    When people do not pass by 1/2 a point yes it matters. There have been other questions too but this is getting ridiculous.

    Then those people could have gotten all of the other questions they got wrong right instead. If you are that close to not passing there are other issues than one instructor being stubborn. If you have multiple examples of students losing points for correct answers (and I mean actually correct, not "correct because we think we're right and tried to argue it"), then maybe the chain of command is the way to go - but blaming this one instructor for this one question for not passing is not accepting responsibility for all of the other questions.

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    The other instructors are aware of it and know that the class got it right but this instructor is their boss too. Last semester our class did very well this semester there are only 40% of people passing going into finals.

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