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E result makes no sense!

  • 05-02-2011 1:10pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,
    I looked at my provisional results last night and was pleased to see that I did well in everything - except my favourite module. It makes absolutely no sense. I got an E in it, despite the fact that I got an A- in the essay and spent ages preparing for the exam! It just doesn't seem possible that I could have done so badly, no matter how I look at it, I just can't make up for such a poor grade.
    Has anyone else had a similar experience? Is it possible that the grade will change dramatically, or do I need to start challenging it now? I already contacted the Programme Office but I'd like to know if this happens a lot.
    Please any help/advice you could offer would be great


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  • #2
    graduate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭graduate


    There are over 100,000 modules, each with several components. Inevitably the odd one ends up with something missing. You've drawn someones attention to it, so I wouldn't worry about it any further. The provisional results allow people point out this kind of thing so that it can be fixed.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yes, it seems that is what happened.
    The module coordinator just emailed me to say that he finds the result very hard to believe. He's asked me to meet with him on Monday so hopefully this will all be sorted out then. I must admit I've been in a bit of a panic about the whole thing so to hear that it must be a mistake from the horse's mouth, so to speak, is really comforting.


  • #4
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    graduate wrote: »
    There are over 100,000 modules, each with several components. Inevitably the odd one ends up with something missing. You've drawn someones attention to it, so I wouldn't worry about it any further. The provisional results allow people point out this kind of thing so that it can be fixed.

    what??


  • #5
    graduate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭graduate


    Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there are over 100,000 modular grades, most with several components. But then you knew that.


  • #6
    Chet T16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    More accurate? Thats not even close to the same thing!


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  • #7
    ironclaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    Can you email lecturers to get grades checked? Or do you formally have to pay and get them rechecked?


  • #8
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    ironclaw wrote: »
    Can you email lecturers to get grades checked? Or do you formally have to pay and get them rechecked?

    Informally you can if there has been an obvious mistake made (like losing your paper or a data entry error etc). It really depends on the lecturer and the reason you are getting it rechecked. The formal procedures are there for a reason though (i.e. stopping frivolous rechecks)

    In my final year of my degree, my final results were not at all what I expected in English and I emailed the year head. He agreed, double checked and realised they had mistakenly given my results to somebody else and their results to mine. So in that instance, I didn't have to pay. Hate to be that guy when he got the call!


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