Being Marked on material not yet covered

GarIT

I heard before that if something hasn't been covered in a lecture it cant come up in an exam or you cant be marked on it. In one of our modules the lecturer missed some lectures but the labs continued and are no gone ahead of the lecture material, we are still being marked in these labs for work we haven't covered yet. Is it true that we should be being marked and loosing CA for this?

mickstupp

I don't really see why exams should be restricted to things you've covered in class. You're supposed to be reading around the subject, reading extra stuff outside of your assignments, lectures, reading lists etc.

Unless this is some subject where a lecturer specifically, explicitly, told you they were only going to examine what you covered in class?

Or maybe I'm approaching college all wrong... very possibly doing too much work here...

roxyworldgirl

usually exams will only cover what the lecturer themselves have covered but if you are being marked separately in labs by your tutor then they will mark you on what they are teaching you.

CSSE09

One of my lecturers in CS gave us an exam where none of the questions asked was covered.

GarIT

Fair enough, I was just asking because a few of us thought something like that sounded familiar.