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Failed an exam!!

  • 17-02-2012 8:03pm
    #1
    easydosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭


    Hi all
    I have just realised that i have failed my economics exam ec202a with 39%.Sickened.
    Anyways, I was wondering could I get my result re-corrected and remarked???
    Also, I was wondering could I compensate this result as it is my only ec module. However I have comfortably passed other modules set by the accounting,economics and finance department at Nuim. Can I therefore compensate??
    sorry if question is absurd and any input would be much respected
    .


Comments

  • #2
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    You can ask for your exam to be re-corrected, although I think you may have to wait until the official results in the summer to do this. I am not sure if you would be able to pass the exam by compensation if you haven't sat any other economics modules. The best person to ask about both just to make sure would be the department secretary.


  • #3
    freeze4real
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


    easydosh wrote: »
    Hi all
    I have just realised that i have failed my economics exam ec202a with 39%.Sickened.
    Anyways, I was wondering could I get my result re-corrected and remarked???
    Also, I was wondering could I compensate this result as it is my only ec module. However I have comfortably passed other modules set by the accounting,economics and finance department at Nuim. Can I therefore compensate??
    sorry if question is absurd and any input would be much respected
    .

    hard luck man I did ec202a and I did okay myself but was lucky.

    When I was in first year I heard Margaret Hurley say that lets say one got 39/49 which you did by hatting to the lecturer about tour exam or just say something good they could pass you.

    But Julie in class said she doesn't change the results after marking them, it could be a joke best way is to mail her and arrange a meeting.


  • #4
    mike.l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭mike.l


    !


  • #5
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,840 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    freeze4real wrote: »
    But Julie in class said she doesn't change the results after marking them, it could be a joke best way is to mail her and arrange a meeting.

    She said that to us for a different module and said that if she has to remark an exam because someone complained she's more likely to be a harsher marker. I'd not bother trying to get her to change it personally.


  • #6
    Wendero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭Wendero


    Most teachers I think wouldn't change the mark. But there's quite a bit of rounding up going on, so 69 becomes 70, 59 becomes 60 and so on.

    I also think a reason why Julie might not want to remark (or be a harscher marker if she does) is because she considers the exam to have just about the easiest format there is. You have 7 questions, and you do any 4 you want, and it's the same questions year after year. I have to agree with her on that actually, but of course I know nothing about the personal circumstances that may have caused you to get a 39. Just saying that if lecturers are under the perception that a module/exam is easy to pass, I think they're less likely to agree to remark.


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