(insert sunflower emoji here cause im on my laptop and it doesnt have emojis)
I failed my first assessment at uni, bc they kept saying “the exact way to structure it is written in the (uni) Handbook, you should know this” which they refused to give a physical copy of, and the only link to it always 404′d anyone who tried to use it. Very frustrating.
When it came to the first Residential, I actually shared accommodation with a 2nd year student, lovely older lady who offered to look over the assessment (it was wk3 first semester, first year btw) and see if she could tell what went wrong (no feedback from lecturers made it hard to know why).
She flat-out explained what they were after, gave me a copy of an assessment she had on her and showed all the basic formatting we were supposed to know from the handbook. even not having something specific in the headers and footers was a heck of a mark down, they were finnicky (lot of people failed that one though, I’d like to say)
The writing structure and info were sound, it just had been formatted wrong.
Never failed another assessment, lmao.
So when I was asked to be a student mentor, in Second year (and no one told me we could have those??? it would have made life so much fucking easier???) the first thing I did was tell my like, 8 student mentees about formatting your fucking assessments, and where to find things, and made sure their hard-to-find-online-forms were completed and processed, before term 1 began
none of that shit’s happening to my kids, you hear me, Gods of Fuckery
not exciting info, but like, if you’re going to uni and you can’t get your hands on a fucking handbook with the Rules of Formatting Assessments in it? Demand a mentor, or find a second year. They Know.
