- Jun 8, 2001
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First: Sorry, I can't post the question itself per exam rules and I don't want to risk anything else. I will try to make it make as much sense as possible.
I am finishing up my masters and taking my comps this semester which involves writing two papers on two different questions. We have two weeks to complete these (due tomorrow) and can do them at any point during this period.
One of the two questions I answered went something like this:
...websites are designed using different kinds of X. Describe at least three similarities and differences between the structures of X....The question then says something like "these similarities and differences include 1,2,3,4, and 5.
The problem with this horribly written question (the question is more comparing apples to oranges but with the assumption that both are oranges) was that examples 1-4 were really about the differences in the IMPLEMENTATION and ORGANIZATIONS that use X. So I wrote my answer as best as I could around why X is implemented, how it is expressed differently, etc. Come to find out sometime in the past week (and at least a few days after the question was posted) a clarification was posted to the exam message board (in a really buried spot...NOT in the announcements with major notices about other questions) that indicates that our answer should ONLY be about the differences between the structures of X, meaning that four of the five examples included were completely and utterly wrong.
I am rather at a loss at this point. It is completely impossible to rewrite the response at this point. The exam is graded by the faculty, and my concern is that since I basically answered the wrong thing, I will fail. What should I do at this point? The only idea I had was to send an e-mail tomorrow (after I have submitted) expressing my concerns and send it to both the exam administrator and the dean of the program.
I am finishing up my masters and taking my comps this semester which involves writing two papers on two different questions. We have two weeks to complete these (due tomorrow) and can do them at any point during this period.
One of the two questions I answered went something like this:
...websites are designed using different kinds of X. Describe at least three similarities and differences between the structures of X....The question then says something like "these similarities and differences include 1,2,3,4, and 5.
The problem with this horribly written question (the question is more comparing apples to oranges but with the assumption that both are oranges) was that examples 1-4 were really about the differences in the IMPLEMENTATION and ORGANIZATIONS that use X. So I wrote my answer as best as I could around why X is implemented, how it is expressed differently, etc. Come to find out sometime in the past week (and at least a few days after the question was posted) a clarification was posted to the exam message board (in a really buried spot...NOT in the announcements with major notices about other questions) that indicates that our answer should ONLY be about the differences between the structures of X, meaning that four of the five examples included were completely and utterly wrong.
I am rather at a loss at this point. It is completely impossible to rewrite the response at this point. The exam is graded by the faculty, and my concern is that since I basically answered the wrong thing, I will fail. What should I do at this point? The only idea I had was to send an e-mail tomorrow (after I have submitted) expressing my concerns and send it to both the exam administrator and the dean of the program.
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