Some would argue that the world is unfair.
For me, the world is not unfair; the people in this world are the ones who are.
Imagine yourself on your midterm exam week.
You woke up 7:35, your exam started at 7:30. You are late, you run, you panic, you forget to brush you teeth in order to catch and exam. You come inside the classroom, saying a hasty ‘good morning’ to the proctor and get the exam sheets from the table and sit at the nearest chair from where you are standing. You search for your bag (that is still full of notes from yesterday’s exam) for a ball point pen and could not find one. In your incessant attitude, you ask for a pen from your seatmate, she has no extra so you have no choice but to borrow one from the proctor.
As you move back to your seat, you see that the examination is semi-hard for your level of difficulty. You happily answer the exam and gladly finished it.
Imagine yourself the week after.
You are checking your test papers (which you shouldn’t because of the risk of tampering) when all of a sudden you see that other papers answered in a different manner, instead of writing letters, they wrote numbers. You read again the written instruction on the test paper; WRITE LETTERS TO CORRESPOND THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Then your teacher announces that the correct procedure for answering that part of the test is by writing numbers as oriented and orally instructed before the exam.
You have that look of disbelief printed on your face. You wrote letters.
Then one of your classmates asks: “Ma’am kung nag answer sila bi it letters?”(What if they answered letters ma’am?)
That is surely your paper.
Then your professor would say: “Sala na. Wala sila ga pamati paghatag ko instructions pag exam kag.” (Mark it wrong, they were not listening when I gave the on-site instructions).
You argue and say, “Ma’am, amu man ni ang instruction sa papel, gin sunod lang namun.” (We just followed the instruction on the exam questionnaire, Ma’am). She then says: “Muna kay late kamo kag wala ga pamangkot.” (That’s what you get when you are late and not asking).
No, that did not happen to me, but unfortunately some of my classmates were victims of this scenario. Yes it did happen. And it is true.
If I were one of the victims of this scene, I would gladly put up my banner of rights in front of that professor. I was also standing on tiptoe when I heard the ‘verdict’ of the unappealing judge that day. That was totally unfair.
I was speaking out, what f they are late ma’am and they did not hear the instructions? What happens to them?
She ignores me completely.
I was infuriated myself that a very narrow thing hampered my classmates’ score. Quoting on one classmate, “Biskan diin mo pa ni nga korte dal-un, sala gid ni siya ang gin ubra nya ya.” (What she (the professor) did was wrong, no matter what court you go to).
Why do I think it’s unfair?
First, if you think of it logically, the students followed what was on the test questionnaire, they had followed instructions correctly in the examinations’ policy. As it is presumed that instruction is part of the test, it should be also presumed that what given instruction is printed on the questionnaire is THE instruction.
Second, as a proctor, you should clarify or re-iterate if there are corrections on the exam. This only not includes before the exam but for those who also did not hear it because they were delayed. It is the right of the student to know the changed instructions; the proctor should be responsible enough to tell them so. Late or not late, it is the job of the proctor to tell the students if there had been a change in the exam.
Third as a teacher, you should analyze the situation and not be as critically narrow in making decisions, porque na late sya sa exam mo, wala na dasun pag-asa? If the teacher-proctor detests people who are always late, then he/she should consider them as clients, they are the customers, kahit na late ay kailangan i-entertain o pag-ukulan ng pansin.Though some of them were poorly answering that part of the test, some are doing well, but did not follow her instructions.
Fourth, as the student-client type of relationship should be presumably known by institutions, the students should be part of the decision about the NFI’s (Not following instructions). The students, especially the NFI’s are obliged to defend themselves and reason out why their answers are like that. You say that instructions are part of the test right? However, just like what I had said, they did follow the printed instructions. Verbal, they did not. How could they follow it, if they did not hear it?
The people in this world are not fair./KP
*our proctor is in the person of our subject professor also.
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