Category: After seeing my exam 2 grade from Managerial Economics, and my final grade as a result, I am truly embarrassed and humbled. I learned of my final grade at work before seeing what I got on the exam and was dumbfounded; after seeing the mistakes I made, I really should return my prior degrees.
It’s funny how in the absence of information (my exam 2 grade), how we as humans (or maybe it’s just me) naturally default to ‘there must be some sort of mistake’. There was, but it’s mine and mine alone.
Usually, I don’t go back over exams that I got to review the actual grade…sure, there could be a incorrect point deduction here, or a mis-grade there, but from my prior experience as a teaching assistant those points don’t matter in the end. So I usually just give my exams a cursory glance and move on. I reviewed every single question on this exam, and I think I’ve got the potential for an extra point or two. But I’m not going to ask for a review, because those points don’t change this simple fact:
There are at least 7 places on the exam where I had the correct answer, and for whatever reason, decided I should change it without looking at the textbook for a quick verification.
The funny thing is, I don’t even have the ‘incorrect’ work on the page. I just have the correct answer faintly remaining, that work erased, then the incorrect answer boldly circled and electronically submitted. No record of my actual thought process. I’d be fired if I did that at work and had a result like this.
Of course, “P=MBA” and all that, but ‘passing’ in graduate school isn’t all that great of an accomplishment. For this class, the material was well taught by the professor, fair and the answers unambiguous. Everyone should pass. The grades for Decision Models will also come out soon, and I don’t expect to be in the ‘SP’ group there either.
So all I can say about this semester is that I’m embarrassed and humbled. I’ve got semesters 3-6 to try and fix it.
I was gonna write a blog about this but your blog pretty much summed it up. Feeling like kicking myself.
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