<p>I took this legal class online last semester.</p>
<p>We had 3 exams: the first exam I wrote in 50 minutes, got a B. 2nd exam wrote in about 30 minutes, got a 96%, 3rd exam wrote in 25minutes got a 96%.</p>
<p>She sent me an email asking how I did that. I told her that this is my 3rd legal class, my dad has been an attorney for almost 30 years and when I know my stuff it doesn't take me long to complete a test and had done something similar prior - special ed test in 3 minutes, got a perfect score. In addition, it took me longer to complete the first test as I had family issues and couldn't study - parents getting a divorce after over 20 years together.</p>
<p>She never got back to me, I emailed the Head of Dept and she said she will get in touch with the prof to contact me. Prof didn't contact me, HOD contacted the prof for the 2nd time - no response.</p>
<p>HOD said I would have to write the exam again in person and complete it in the same amount of time and get the same score which I think is total BS. I know my stuff and probably could do it, but it's been a month since I studied the material and assuming I did it and didn't get the same result, she would automatically say I cheated. Plus, I'm in Canada for the summer, I'm not paying an air ticket to take a dumb re-test.</p>
<p>I am so mad because this professor was unavailable the whole semester and did not reply any of my emails with questions, hence my dad (the Assistant Attorney General in my country) had to become my tutor via Skype.</p>
<p>I know this is long, but any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>I would obviously talk to your dad about this instead of asking a forum where people have no grasp of the situation (duh). Maybe he can get them to pay for the ticket or work out something in your favor because you haven’t taken reviewed the material in a while (he is the assistant attorney general after all).</p>
<p>I did and he said I shouldn’t retake it, and wants to call my school which I don’t want him to do cos I feel like I’m an adult and should be able to handle this myself. Also suggested suing if I must, wth. Yep, he’s a lawyer after all.</p>
<p>However, I am still going to contact my Faculty Dean and if that fails, contact the VP of Student Affairs and go all the way up.</p>
<p>I just want this resolved without crazy drama. Any more comments are welcome.</p>
There are plenty times when it is perfectly alright to ask your parents to step in for you, even though we are technically adults. I had to get my Dad’s help with a student health services issue this year - nothing would have worked otherwise since they refused to listen to me as a student… but have a parent call and threaten to get the chancellor involved gets action going pretty quickly (the head of shs reports directly to the chancellor apparently).</p>
<p>If the Faculty Dean refuses to help, it may just be worth it to have your Dad call in.</p>
<p>that is ******** and horrible injustice.
it’s unethical to call up a student long after the school year’s ended to re-take an exam. final grades are final. there’s no way you’re going to be flying in to “prove” your innocence, and you can’t accept that. if they really must do something this unreasonable, I suggest suggesting a phone interview instead with much less questions. why is the HOD making you do this without consulting the professor first? that’s ridiculous and against the rules. professors have the final authority on grades, not heads of department. after all this is over, make sure next year that you find her in person and give her your best joe torre impression until you see the fear glimmering in her eyes, arising from her fragile (and worthless) ego. this time, she really crossed the wrong person.</p>
<p>Well, fair enough. How did you reach this conclusion?</p>
<p>The F doesn’t really bother me, yeah it hurt my GPA but it’s pretty high. However, I don’t appreciate the attack on character that this implies.</p>
<p>@ Gnillort: I’m sorry, but did you read his post? He said that it takes him less time to complete a test when he absolutely knows the material. Just because he finished his exam in a short amount of time does not mean he cheated. :/</p>
<p>Its amazing yet not surpising that something like this could happen. Teachers love doing crap like this to students. And obviously you’re not going to fly back from your vacation to retake a test you took months ago. If there was a problem the school should have informed within like 2 weeks of the test, because it doesn’t take schools long to grade exams. </p>
<p>I get where you’re coming from on the adult thing, but this is definitely a situation where you shouldn’t be afraid to ask your dad for help. At the least have him go with you and just be there as back up. Just have him there to prove your story is true.</p>
<p>I would not take the test over. If this is an online course, many student’s research online which you might of done. Not cheat or plagiarize but research to understand and know how do deal with certain exam. If you going to be doing it offline right next time to them it’s not right because you might of done some research. All these online courses are meant to use the internet for help with quizzes and research. It really not cheating, since you are searching and searching leads to information that you will remember and get you smarter.</p>
<p>The Dept Head sided with the professor, so I will be appealing the decision with the Dean and also getting my dad to call in, hopefully that helps.</p>