A Valuable Lesson

So I learned a valuable lesson today. Because I write with the Office for Person's with Disabilities, my last test was late in being marked, so it wasn't available for Pickup yesterday. The marks weren't even available online yet.

This morning I logged in to check my marks before the last test tomorrow. I was very surprised to see that I had only gotten 5 marks out of 27! I was sitting there panicking. I was so upset because I didn't see how I could have written the test and gotten that low since I knew what I was doing.

So even as I was extremely upset, I thought to e-mail the TA saying I thought there might be mistake becuase UWace said I only got 5/27 which was extremely low and I didn't understand how I got that low becuase I knew what I was doing.

So I sat there feeling extremely upset for the next hour. Then I got an e-mail back from the TA. Turns out that somehow on the marks spreadsheet, the formula for calculating marks had been replaced by a 5. So that's what my mark went up as. Turns out I actually got 22.75/27.

So that mark is being corrected right now. The point of this story is that if you unsure or confused about something it never hurts to ask. Especially in the case of marks. Because mistakes do happen, and if you don't ask they may never be caught.