I hope this reaches you well.
The reason for my email is that I wanted to address with you a few concerns the other students and I had about the Aging Exam. I am aware that all the questions would have been carefully constructed and that it is your belief that upon completion of the weekly activities and readings we would be well equipped to complete the exam. However, after speaking to a lot of the students, I realised I was in the majority who felt completely ambushed by questions 31 and 32.
Had I not prepared for this exam, I would not be emailing you today, but that it is not the case. In fact, my preparation included revising all the readings during the study break and still, I was at a loss to complete those two questions. When I read a reading I take notes on the key points relating the weekly objectives. If information does not relate to the weekly objectives then I do not take it down in order to avoid information overload during revision, remembering the specific issues addressed in each article on osteoporosis- when there were several- is a big ask and the wise decision appeared to be to focus on the objectives which asked us to identify the causes, risk factors, diagnosis and role of exercise. The information we were asked to provide did not centre around this.
Further, none of the objectives said we had to learn the model showing the relationship between Muscle and CVD, this model is quite complex and memorising every aspect of it when we had not been warned to pay special attention to it is fairly difficult.
These final two questions were worth 10 marks each and account for 40 per cent of our mark for the exam and do not feel being able to answer these questions is a fair reflection on my understanding of the module.
Also, none of the options for question 12 were correct. It asked what would be a T score indicating osteoporosis and there was no less than -2.5 option.
In light of the issues I have addressed above, I ask that you consider altering the number of marks awarded for questions 31 and 32, if not excluding them from our final grade entirely and that question 12 be omitted from the exam mark.
I look forward to hearing from you and thank you for all your work this semester. I thoroughly enjoyed this subject and feel I have learned a lot.
and what's worse is, deferred exams aren't until the second week of July.
