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...Head TF Megan R. Luke e-mailed students in the course Saturday morning to explain the issue and offer the option to drop the first section, with a deadline of noon yesterday. Seven students had opted to drop Part I from their grade as of late yesterday morning, she wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...Luke’s Saturday morning e-mail explained that students had been given uneven preparation for the exam, and that students who felt disadvantaged by this unequal preparation had the option of omitting Part I from their test grade...
...Rather than being graded on all three parts of the exam, which are equally weighted, students who exercise this option will be graded only on Parts II and III, according to the e-mail sent to students in the course...
Evans wrote that she thought the unevenness in preparation was clearly unfair. She wrote that she did not think the grading change option fully addressed the unfairness of the situation, but that she could not think of a better way of responding...
...Rentschler acknowledged that the grading change option was not an “ideal” solution, but he wrote that implementing the alternative solution of throwing out the first part entirely could have penalized students who had prepared well for that section without the additional information...