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Being Marked on material not yet covered

  • 28-11-2013 05:26PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭CSSE09


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


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


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