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THIS IS COMPLETELY ABSURD AND RAGE INDUCING.
I am absolutely outraged and vehemently pissed off, pardon the redundancy in that remark and the following tidbit:
What has occured here is the faculty's fault. Someone in the faculty was definitely at fault in regards to this.
How so? As stated:
"Some students received unauthorized copies of exam questions, and suggested answers, in advance of the sitting of the exam."
Now where do these exam questions originate? From where do these suggested answers originate? Certainly not from the hands and minds of my fellow students. TAs don't make exams either. We didn't create this exam for our fellow students to write; someone in the faculty did. So, if the exam information was leaked, why is everyone else to be held responsible for this? The faculty should have done better not to let the information leak in order to protect academic integrity.
But hey, one computer illiterate member of the faculty ends up putting "password" as their password, cries about getting the exam leaked, and then blames all the students who diligently studied for their exam in an academically honest manner to redo the entire exam.
This is wrong. We, the students (who are also the taxpayers, re: PST), pay for your tenured positions. To top it off, we pay around $500 to $600 for the semester. International students probably more so. Oh, and then there are book costs and transportation costs. Yes indeed, we pay quite a bit of money. You know what we thus expect in return? We expect quality. We don't expect to be blamed for something that isn't, in the grand scheme of things, our fault.
This supposed "solution" to the problem at hand requires the faculty to assume that all of us are guilty of academic dishonesty. I find that offensive and I am sure so do my fellow (academically honest) students.
So I'm sure all would agree what happened this year in ADMS 3330
1. To begin, names of course directors were not posted on the course timetable website, which meant students did not have the best information in regards to making the correct decision in picking their course. This resulted in students effectively being unable to choose which professor teaches them and this lead some students into having a terrible professor for the year. Basically, the students paid for a service in which they had no clue whether or not it would be worth the money. Some were lucky to have a good prof, others not so lucky.
2. Midterm exam came which lead to a fire alarm. Why, already the service we paid for was subpar at that moment. But now we weren't allowed to have a refund.
3. Final exams came. For our class particularly, we had to split the exam into three separate parts, each without much time to complete and with no ability to go back to say, the multiple choice to check our answers. You could hear the frustration voiced by nearly everyone in the exam room.
4. Now we have to write this final exam all over again as the only option? There are no other given options? No other choices that would perhaps not have this entire discussion forum up in arms with pitchforks and torches? Can I not have my money back? There is no other course or exam have I personally experienced this sense of discontentment with as much as with this one, not even ADMS 2500. I'm sure there are many others who would agree. Pardon my words, but paying for this entire semester has been like tipping a rapist.
Ultimately this is the faculty's fault. Sure, the academically dishonest student may have done what he done, but it would not have happened if the proper systems of control were in place over the exam information and answers. That responsibility lies with the faculty and the university.
My opinion for my fellow students would be to report this happening to the York Federation of Students so that we can boycott this exam. It shouldn't be too hard for the faculty to come up with alternate solutions to this issue.
 lmasdlkjasdoiajusdlknm · Sat Dec 19, 2009 @ 03:47am · 0 Comments |
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