Friday, April 28, 2006
This what i got in my email sending to the lecturer.. See exam is about luck.. So the person should just blame it on his bad luck..
This is an open book exam, if there is a question that will require you a long answer that the answers are found in the text book, wouldn't you just copy the answer and write it in??? I thought its just natural.. And what plagarisim.. What the hell......
&%*&$#^$&(*%^*&^$*^
And for midterm almost everyone copy from the pc1431 notes also what.. Why isnt anything said about that... Isnt it about the same??
I'm so angry cos if its really like that, i will die for 2 questions... Although i never copy exactly, but due to my poor english, i dont trust how i phrase the question and I surely did copy more than 10% lor..
The thing is that there are no exam rules that say for open book exam you cannot write the same thing as what was given in the notes what.. THIS IS AN OPEN BOOK EXAM!!
Ok, i'm v biased, but i dont care.. Argghhh..
And the fact that we know that these question appear and went to look for the solutions suggest that we are hardworking what..
But whose fault is these.. Its the lecturer's lor.. Dun even bother to come up with new questions.. All other modules can come up with new questions and they wouldnt face the problem...
I'm damn kao bei, but i dont care.. I am angry...
(Regarding the CM1502 exam on 25th April 2006, we found that most questions are very similar to past year exam questions.
We now see why the solutions to the past year examination questions are not posted in IVLE. However, we were given PAST YEAR EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 3 YEAR-SERIES for all the core modules during 05/06 orientation. Sadly, those who possess this booklet just simply "copy and paste" answers to the examination paper. If you find that most students are doing that, you can be sure those without this booklet are at a very SERIOUS disadvantage.
I have to say that this is an unfair practice. It's plagiarism. Please imagine marking the same answers in terms of sentence structure and word usage of more than half of the cohort. If you have any issues arising from this problem, you can compare the answers of most students to the ones in the PAST YEAR EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 3 YEAR SERIES.
In view of this, the examination is a very ineffective means judging a student's understanding, hardwork and academic abilities. Please take serious action on those who copied directly. You may use the NUS plagiarism act as a guideline which states a duplication of more than 10%. This is to compromise on those who did not copy and ensure fairness among all the students.
I leave to you and the tutors to act on this.
Thank you.)
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