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[ProxyAmenRa]

The first time in my life I have failed something. I failed on a monumental scale; zero percent for an assignment worth 30% of my total grade. The reason for the absolute dismissal of my work was because my assignment was perceived to be 2000 words over the word limit and hence, the lecturer decided to not read on past the half way mark of my assignment. Additionally I received 0 marks for the work that the lecturer had read.

I am normally a 92% student.

I was interested in why I received such a low mark and was informed of the previous and a convoluted rant about how I did not follow the criteria and the structure of my assignment was illogical.

In order to deduce whether or not the marking of my assignment was justifiable I read the assignments of the relatively high achieving. Their assignment epitomize the quality of work I produced when I was 14. They contained no content and ranted on about subjective philosophy in a technical subject.

I cross referenced my assignment against the marking criteria and I fulfilled all requirements. However, the one area which I did fail to meet was a superfluous summary table and did not use journals to source the information from. I thought published reports from reputable organizations would suffice. Why the hell is sourcing information from journals a marking criteria?

I double checked the word count. In total 3577 words. Then I minus the citations which there were 72 of them each containing on average 5 words. 3577 - 360 = 3217. I was over the word limit by 217. 3217 words is below the 10% threshold of allowance. 3217<3300.

I was failed for reasons unfounded by evidence!

What to do from now? I will see the head of the school of engineering and organize to be acquitted from the subject because the lecturer has a bias against me. Fucking greens.

 

[Words]

Free yourself man. Illusory gratification known as Grades, can only be so important. What is an obligation? An ambition? A purpose? An escape away from pain?

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Getting high grades enables me to do what I like doing. Other than that they are pretty meaningless.

 

[Words]

Why do you like what you like doing?

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

It wards off boredom.

 

[Words]

and why is warding off boredom important? (you know where this is going)

 

[Malt]

You can't use reputable organisations because their reports arn't always peer reviewed like a scholarly article is. Sure the IMF is probably going to have fairly accurate data and other journals will cite them but universities don't want to open the flood gate to all "reputable" organisations.

I know this seems unfair as you may take the time to make sure they are scholarly and reliable but it opens the door to interpretation as to which organisation is scholarly or not.

 

[EditorOne]

It seems illogical to assume that a bunch of scholars sitting around picking through each other's overwrought and overwritten and oversyllablated (!) treatises on trivia have a lock on truth, especially when much of the time they are stabbing each other in the back for advancement and playing other little palace games in their respective leaning towers of learning. I share the pain of an indignity endured endlessly.

If you're going to pitch a hissy fit with the higher ups, don't go for "he has it in for me." Go for "he's inconsistent," use some of the other essays by other students to show that inconsistency, and let the higher ups work it out from there. "He's got it in for me" smacks of paranoia.

 

[Malt]

It seems illogical to assume that a bunch of scholars sitting around picking through each other's overwrought and overwritten and oversyllablated (!) treatises on trivia have a lock on truth, especially when much of the time they are stabbing each other in the back for advancement and playing other little palace games in their respective leaning towers of learning. I share the pain of an indignity endured endlessly.

True, but that is why you have to critique it yourself and point out any flaws in their journal article if you cite them in your essay/report/assignment.

http://journals.aomonline.org/amp/samplearticles/Feb%2009%20Goal%20setting%20by%20Locke%20and%20Latham.pdf

Case in point, I found this while researching goal-setting theory this semester. 'Twas quite helarious to read. The title alone speaks of the adversarial nature and lack of objective approach by the authors when they start with a false dichotomy.

 

[Trebuchet]

I agree with EditorOne. If you make it personal, you will lose. Just say that you would like to protest the grade you got and have it reevaluated.

//begin small silver lining

The worst case is you will have this one failing mark. Failing for the first time is pretty devastating, but I there are worse times and places to experience failure than school. I didn't fail in school, so my first failure was at a job. I wish it had been at school. Still, you have my sympathy.

//end small silver lining

 

[Enne]

I agree with EditorOne. If you make it personal, you will lose. Just say that you would like to protest the grade you got and have it reevaluated.

//begin small silver lining

The worst case is you will have this one failing mark. Failing for the first time is pretty devastating, but I there are worse times and places to experience failure than school. I didn't fail in school, so my first failure was at a job. I wish it had been at school. Still, you have my sympathy.

//end small silver lining

What happened?

 

[BigApplePi]

The first time in my life I have failed something. I failed on a monumental scale; zero percent for an assignment worth 30% of my total grade. The reason for the absolute dismissal of my work was because my assignment was perceived to be 2000 words over the word limit and hence, the lecturer decided to not read on past the half way mark of my assignment. Additionally I received 0 marks for the work that the lecturer had read.

I am normally a 92% student.

I was interested in why I received such a low mark and was informed of the previous and a convoluted rant about how I did not follow the criteria and the structure of my assignment was illogical.

In order to deduce whether or not the marking of my assignment was justifiable I read the assignments of the relatively high achieving. Their assignment epitomize the quality of work I produced when I was 14. They contained no content and ranted on about subjective philosophy in a technical subject.

I cross referenced my assignment against the marking criteria and I fulfilled all requirements. However, the one area which I did fail to meet was a superfluous summary table and did not use journals to source the information from. I thought published reports from reputable organizations would suffice. Why the hell is sourcing information from journals a marking criteria?

I double checked the word count. In total 3577 words. Then I minus the citations which there were 72 of them each containing on average 5 words. 3577 - 360 = 3217. I was over the word limit by 217. 3217 words is below the 10% threshold of allowance. 3217<3300.

I was failed for reasons unfounded by evidence!

What to do from now? I will see the head of the school of engineering and organize to be acquitted from the subject because the lecturer has a bias against me. Fucking greens.

Proxy. Feel free to rationally protest the merit of your grade to head of school giving the accomplishments of your assignment, admitting you were over-count and you are also a 92% student. Make sure you don't blame the teacher personally. You want to be as objective as possible.

When I was in grad school, I had to drop a Number Theory course. I was not doing the homework and finally I realized I could never catch up. The professor didn't know this as he had never collected any homework from anyone. To drop the course he was to sign some paper indicating the grade so far which should be a "no operation." I forget the term as that was decades ago. He gave me an "F." I was furious as he had no idea of my progress and my not doing homework. Much later I realized he was probably insulted by the dropping of his treasured course. His "F" didn't count anyway. Your teacher had some personal Ni rule in his head, not reason. That is why you must not take it personally.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

You can't use reputable organisations because their reports arn't always peer reviewed like a scholarly article is. Sure the IMF is probably going to have fairly accurate data and other journals will cite them but universities don't want to open the flood gate to all "reputable" organisations.

I know this seems unfair as you may take the time to make sure they are scholarly and reliable but it opens the door to interpretation as to which organisation is scholarly or not.

I conducted further research into the reports I cited three quarters of them were actually published in one journal or another. I just cited the referencing to different publishing media. All the information was peer reviewed.

The percentage of marks allocated to this area of the assignment was 5%. Not very substantial.

It seems illogical to assume that a bunch of scholars sitting around picking through each other's overwrought and overwritten and oversyllablated (!) treatises on trivia have a lock on truth, especially when much of the time they are stabbing each other in the back for advancement and playing other little palace games in their respective leaning towers of learning. I share the pain of an indignity endured endlessly.

If you're going to pitch a hissy fit with the higher ups, don't go for "he has it in for me." Go for "he's inconsistent," use some of the other essays by other students to show that inconsistency, and let the higher ups work it out from there. "He's got it in for me" smacks of paranoia.

Proxy. Feel free to rationally protest the merit of your grade to head of school giving the accomplishments of your assignment, admitting you were over-count and you are also a 92% student. Make sure you don't blame the teacher personally. You want to be as objective as possible.

When I was in grad school, I had to drop a Number Theory course. I was not doing the homework and finally I realized I could never catch up. The professor didn't know this as he had never collected any homework from anyone. To drop the course he was to sign some paper indicating the grade so far which should be a "no operation." I forget the term as that was decades ago. He gave me an "F." I was furious as he had no idea of my progress and my not doing homework. Much later I realized he was probably insulted by the dropping of his treasured course. His "F" didn't count anyway. Your teacher had some personal Ni rule in his head, not reason. That is why you must not take it personally.

Good advice. The inconsistency argument holds. I communicated to the other students about how much they went over the word limit and on average it was around 1000. However, they did no get reprimanded.

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The issue is that she stopped reading at the half way point for no reason bounded by empirical evidence. To add insult to injury she awarded 0 marks for what she had read. Something strange occurred. Not of my fault apart from not citing peer reviewed reports to journals but other publishing media which as I discussed above such things is not worth much in the assignment.


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With this in mind I will be organizing meetings with the lecturer in order to reach a compromise such as actually marking the assignment.

 

[Vrecknidj]

An chance there's a person who outranks the teacher? It is possible, sometimes, to appeal to a higher authority.

Dave

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

A compromise was reached. Paradise not lost.

 

[BigApplePi]

A compromise was reached. Paradise not lost.

Tell us about it.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Instead of marking my assignment she offered 66%. I guess she offered an arbitrary number instead of marking the assignment in order to maintain her pride and in her mind the delusion of being righteous. Since I am at the end of my semester and I have 5 other subjects to worry about, I agreed to her offer rather than going above her head and engaging in convoluted formal processes.

Loosing 10% of my total grade will obviously prevent me from achieving the highest gpa which is a disappointment; no longer a perfect gpa.

It is a shame that some university lecturers perch themselves on an ivory tower, look down on individuals striving for an education and pass judgment without logical reasoning. I did explain to this delusional and dogmatic person that I am paying customer and the level of service being provided was an insult.

I will avoid all her courses in the future and advise other individuals with similar thought processes as I not to engage in them either.

My mother, a lecturer of business and has numerous degrees in education and business summated the conflict as a failure of communication. It is apparent that individuals that rely on logic and fact do not form cohesive relations with ones in the realm of delusional fantasies.