<p>This is not something that we would ever know…We think D1 is not exactly a dummy, if she could make careless mistakes while doing calculations long hand then it’s likely other students could do the same. What if other students were given partial credit when they made careless mistakes and D1 wasn’t? We don’t know. The only way we would know is to have another professor look at how other students were graded on the final and then grade D1’s final independently. </p>
<p>D1 is not so arrogant or so confident to think she could never get below a B in any class. It is just hard for her to believe she could go into a final with a 66 (B or B+) average and ended up with an F as her final grade. If it was a C, I think it could have been more believable.</p>
<p>Base on your recommendations, </p>
<p>1) D1 has contacted her school’s study abroad directors to see if they could intervene.
2) She is working on her formal appeal to U. Sidney to take another look at her test (long application, needs to justify to the nth degree as to why).
3) Signed up for similar CP course at her school for this spring.
4) She is going to delay in signing the form.</p>
<p>As mentioned by few posters, this probably will just be a minor setback for her. Hopefully this thread will make some people be aware of some pitfalls in studying abroad. Students need to be aware of other country’s way of doing things is not always the same as ours. Ask a lot of questions first.</p>