Luck in numbers

To be able to reach a university, hard work and intelligence are proven to be somewhere inside you from primary school to your JC or Poly. So, what can be tested next? Luck, Fate, X-factor, whatever. It just means things that cannot be decided by you. In Uni, this is in fact intensively tested, especially in my faculty, my Faculty of Choice.

From module descriptions, to modules taught in whichever semester, to the tutors assigned to you, the lecturer that is teaching the module that semester, your group members, your health, your CCAs, and ESPECIALLY your cohort thats taking the same module as you (think Bell Curve). Millions of things to affect your grades. For example, no matter how much they try to say, tutors are not homogenous units of labour. Its pure common sense! There are bound to be better/lousier tutors around in the same module. This is the fact of life, no matter how hard the lecturer tries ro educate their tutors, he or she is not God. Some tutors are barely audible, while others can barely converse in de facto circulum language.

Module descriptions can sometimes be deception too. A personal experience a Medicine GEm that I took interest in. It was stated that it could not be S/U-ed somewhere on the School website. According to one of my peers, he have already used his S/U option for that module, after clarifying withe the lecturer that the module can be S/U-ed. I'm dumbfounded, but I am not the worst hit. I have a friend that took the words of the web posted by the University that the Medicine Gem cannot be S/U, and did not attempt to S/U it. I guess she really understands that we REALLY do not take everything from the Internet by its word, even if its from your own school. Perfect knowledge? Economics is so interesting, yet unrealistic sometimes.

Why don't I confirm the school, rather than hiding here trash talking about it? My answer is would confronting the school really help? Un-S/U those people that have S/U that module seems all too cruel, and somewhat unfair to them as well. Letting them keep their S/U, while others that did not know that it could be S/u-ed suffer, or people that chose not to do the module because of its 'non-S/U-ness' feel sick in the gut? Executing a murder brings justice, but as well as takes down another life. I'm not a judge seeking justice. I'm an utilitarian (Did I spell it right?) that feels its a lose-lose sitaution out there.

Maybe in the near future, I will bring it up to the school admin or something, but not to create any problem for this semester. They did a good job screwing things up, and I do not think much can be done to salvaged it. I just hope students get the correct information they should get, and not be misled by their own school's website.

The struggle for A grades ain't really that great...

For proof of the information I have just said, go http://www.nus.edu.sg/gem/ under GEK 1525 Evaluating Claims Related to Health.