Something happened in school today that got me and everyone else quite pissed. Well ... if you are not good in teaching students, meaning if you do not have extremely good skills in educating students, it's really fine. I've seen much worse lecturers than you.

But if you create a mid term test which is really confusing, i won't hold my thoughts against you. You gave everyone a page for each question to write, which i can safely say there wasn't only me who was shocked by it. Nevermind.

Then your questions are VAGUE. Mind you, it ain't only me but many others who commented. These comments are REPRESENTATIVE of the student population.

And we've been taught since sec sch to come up with explanations and reasons for what we write ... and you seriously dare to come up with an answer script asking us to just list points with each HALF a mark? Since when wasn't a point listed with explanation one mark? So if each question is 6 marks, we roughly would know how to balance out.

But hell no ... it suddenly appeared that we just need to list out the 'relevance to singapore' and each one will earn us half a mark and because 'non-relevance to singapore' is 'HARDER' to think of, it would be one mark per point. O_O

WTF is this marking scheme. No one told us of anything like that. You didn't specify anything either before the mid terms.

And one very obvious fact is this, you told us after the test that it would be returned this week. This week's lecture you told us that it would be postponed because you need to moderate the scores. Apparently everyone did badly.

Hey, there's no such thing as everyone doing badly unless the test is freaking hard, or its just plain confusing. You and the 2 tutors have personally said while going through the answers that the test is really very hard.

Well, my friend consoled me by saying that don't worry, there's a bell curve. Oh yeah then is my tertiary education going to be screwed up by some lameass lecturer who can't set a proper mid term test?

We ALL fear for the final paper. Really.

Especially when you use the words "you DEEM" in the question, yet gave us no answers that require our opinions. And yes we all know that NUS is situated in Singapore, but it doesn't give you reason to set 2 out of 5 questions asking specifically in the Singapore context. What happens to our foreign friends?

When that girl behind me in class today mentioned out loud that it's a really flawed marking scheme, i added on by agreeing to that statement.

And all of you think that by moderating and adjusting the marks, it would be fair? Trust yourselves to be psychology educators. When a paper is confusing, it takes away a part of students' performance during the test. Imagine if the paper wasn't confusing, these students would have done probably a lot better because they wouldn't need to deal with the internal struggle within them.

You would say it's all individual differences. But i would say that what you took away wasn't returned in full fairly.