So - as soon as I turn in my team’s simulation write-up in half an hour (there’s a fun story behind that, too), I am officially done with the Fall semester and my Operations Management grade is out of my hands.
I took my final a little while ago and started sweating bullets when about halfway through the exam, I started hitting questions from a chapter which wasn’t in our syllabus. Chapter 14. We covered every chapter in the book but that one. I remember specifically mentioning to CU a couple of days ago that I thought it strange we skipped it but hey, that’s what the professor scheduled.
Needless to say, I panicked…because that’s what I do when I find myself woefully unprepared for something. I was having a tough enough time with the exam (BTW - people who think open book/open notes exams are easy are also on crack) - the last thing I needed was to have to learn about ERP and MRP on the fly.
So with about three minutes left I finished the exam and…well…wasn’t feeling too good about it. I guessed on about ten out of the fifty questions. After clicking the “Submit for Grade” button, I laid my head on the desk and waited for the results. I don’t mean to sound dramatic, but I was fully expecting a not-great grade. I did not feel confident about several of my answers and on top of all that, the dogs were whining in their kennels and I had to go to the bathroom really, really badly.
The grade? 225 out of 250 - 90%. I started shaking…my legs were weak, my mouth was dry…and then I called CU to tell him how much I hated graduate school.
After that, I checked our syllabus and sure enough - no mention of chapter 14. So, I did what I do - I emailed our professor and asked him where in the syllabus chapter 14 was, because I missed it. His response?
“Hi Stacy,
There should not have been any questions from chapter 14. There must have been an error when the questions were randomly selected. Please let me know what questions were from chapter 14 and I will give you credit for these. Sorry for this confusion.”
Well, shoot - I didn’t write them down, but how fantastically wonderful would it be if all five questions were from that chapter? Funny thing - I don’t think any of them were. But really now, if I got questions right from a chapter we didn’t cover, I should get some sort of extra credit. This is important because I am literally, on the cusp between an A- and an A…as in, a few points would swing me into 4.0 territory from 3.7 territory.
What a rush - I haven’t been so interested in the difference between an A and an A- in, well..ever.
12/12/2007 at 4:51 pm Permalink
While that’s great that you can get the credit for them, that’s really asanine that your professor put the burden upon you to tell him the questions. He should be able to tell which ones are from which chapters, shouldn’t he?