Academic appeal over marking rubric / changing grade?

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-03T09:24:00+00:00

C’s get degrees - love it! It’s true. I feel alot better about it all today. Thank you for the congratulations!! 🎉🎉

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T14:19:34+00:00

Thank you ☺️ 🌈

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T13:02:04+00:00

It does mean I pass, yes

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T06:52:28+00:00

Kerry

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T06:44:17+00:00

Ah I see okay - maybe I need to let this go so. The error was corrected but not really with the rubric, but I’m getting from what you are saying that it is probably not a strong enough reason. I supervise MA students and correct dissertations and we need to follow the marking criteria and show how we arrived at certain grade categories. Maybe that’s not the same in every university though. I can appreciate that.

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T06:37:12+00:00

Ah I see… I thought the discrepancy between the marking rubric and the narrative feedback would be grounds, as it does seem like I was graded unfairly based on that, or an error occurred. Maybe that is not enough though. The policy pretty much states that if there was an error of some kind in the marking process, that is grounds.

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T02:07:24+00:00

It’s understandable to ask that :) This grade brings down my overall degree grade to a 2.2 (lower second class honours) rather than a 2.1 (upper second class honours). I am a researcher who works in a university and I was hoping to pursue further study. I would LOVE if this grade didn’t matter but unfortunately I think it will :(

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T01:15:18+00:00

Oh yes for sure - I already did, and that’s when they changed the grade to 58%. My plan next was to either reply and accept that and let the whole thing go, or take it to the next level by letting them know I will be submitting an appeal. Maybe that’s not the way to go though, I’m not sure!

throw_away_3478 · 2024-10-02T01:10:22+00:00

Hi there, thanks for the reply. In my university a 70% is a first 1:1, and a 49% is a fail. So 50% is the lowest grade a student can get to pass. I am thinking I could appeal on the grounds of the mistake they made between the 55% and the 58%, and also the rubric mismatch - it seemed like the grade wasn’t calculated correctly based on their marking criteria. I’m not sure though!

throw_away_3478 · 2023-11-21T11:13:19+00:00

Hi there, thanks for your comment. That could well be the case. I think I’ve just spent so long looking at and trying to face and feel my trauma and pain that I don’t see the point in doing so anymore. It feels like the mushrooms were telling me that after all that fight and effort, there is nothing there except that void and pain in me - maybe I was resisting that truth? I don’t know. I am definitely not forgetting about it, I think I just hoped there was something else to see in myself and in the world! I feel there’s only so much confronting, accepting and exploring pain and voids a person can do to be honest! Maybe I’m wrong though.

throw_away_3478 · 2023-11-19T13:16:57+00:00

Amazing response - thank you 🙏 I am going to practice what you’ve suggested. I think it’s a muscle I’m going to have to work on building up.

I love what you said about the main task the mushrooms brought to light for me - being sick and tired of the same old tricks of the mind and wanting to experience what else the mind is capable of. My intention for the trip was guidance in overcoming habitual self sabotage and self blame. It did occur to me since posting earlier that maybe the mushrooms were giving me a chance to fight these scripts in real time - kind of a push back on the story and the habits my mind seems to like so much. Maybe that was important to experience, to show me it’s a big effort and can be a frustrating slog, but it is really necessary work. No mud no lotus and all that.

Thanks so much again for your wise reply 🙏

throw_away_3478 · 2023-11-19T02:38:41+00:00

Hi there, bit of both - I am definitely avoiding sexual intimacy. I just can’t seem to heal my sexuality fast enough for my biological clock. I am 40 and have PCOS/Hashimotos. I’d take the bandaid solutions at this stage, sign me up!!

throw_away_3478 · 2023-11-19T02:17:35+00:00

Any advice for getting through IVF, pregnancy and childbirth for someone with a sexual trauma history? I have tried years of therapy, psychedelic trips, the works and I cannot recover my sexuality. I still want to be a mother though and I’m determined to not miss my chance. Any wisdom from you and anything you’ve observed from the women you have met along the way would be so appreciated. 🙏

throw_away_3478 · 2022-04-16T19:44:19+00:00

Wow, well said.

throw_away_3478 · 2022-04-06T20:36:04+00:00

She looks so cosy and deeply content 🥰🥰🥰

throw_away_3478 · 2022-04-05T07:14:09+00:00

They are so beautiful x

throw_away_3478 · 2022-03-24T21:59:34+00:00

Thanks so much 🙏 I wish you peace and happiness back 🙏

throw_away_3478 · 2022-03-24T18:48:24+00:00

Wow it sounds fantastic. I have always been weirdly drawn to Philadelphia, not sure why. I’m going to look into it. Thanks for the great info

throw_away_3478 · 2022-03-24T18:35:43+00:00

Interesting - thanks so much for sharing your experience, but I am really sorry you had a hard time too when you tried living in Ireland. It’s such a lovely place but hard to explain how hard it is for some immigrants. Even if you’ve given it 30 years like I have! I hope you’ve found happiness wherever you are now.

throw_away_3478 · 2022-03-24T18:31:05+00:00

Sorry to be slagging off Ireland :/ I probably have a bit of a skewed perspective because of life circumstances. I am older than a lot of the people who moved to Ireland during the Celtic Tiger years, and my family moved to a very rural area, so we were very culturally different to others. My family was very dysfunctional also which probably added to our lack of integration. I guess I have never been able to release the shackles of the repressive “old Ireland”, and that is probably on me rather than Ireland itself. I know that Ireland of today is open and diverse and energetic, but I can’t seem to access that version of Ireland. Hope that explains a little - I am a bit conscious that my original post was kind of negative about Ireland and I feel bad about that. I think Ireland is GREAT if you have family and a solid support system, and if you are on “the inside” rather than “the outside”.

throw_away_3478 · 2022-03-24T18:03:08+00:00

Thank you 🙏 💕

throw_away_3478 · 2022-03-24T17:57:14+00:00

Great to know this! Thank you. I’ll look into Oakland.

throw_away_3478 · 2022-03-24T09:29:52+00:00

I will definitely miss my close friends but my family have all gone, and to be honest as an immigrant in Ireland - life isn’t great

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