Challenging Your Grade

This is just a midterm, and is meant more to prepare you for the final as much as anything else. So I wouldn't get too bogged down. That said, if you think you were misscored for an item do contact me.

1. It is best done by email. I can't think quickly enough for on-the-spot complaints.

2. Since this is a multiple choice exam, generally corrections come done to 2 instances

Procedural errors--either the key or the machine was wrong.

Errors of content--in which you feel your answer, though I consider it wrong, could be arguable. Generally, if so, this is argued using "accepted class references" meaning either the textbook, syllabus or lecture materials. In other words, managing to find some article from some journal, in which some new "cutting edge" data seems to question some accepted textbook "fact", is scientifically interesting, rather common, and yet too preliminary to ever warrant throwing out babies with bathwater, etc.

3. That said, during the course of the test we did identify some errors, and some questions that were too ambiguous such that more than one answer was arguably correct. These should already be worked into your "official" grade, but you might want to double check that this is so (these will be covered when I post the answers--which I will, real soon.