What do you think?

 

Lets use a scenario - say that you had weekly tests/quizes by your school/university and that the quiz/test would be usually based off content learned in that week only.

 

Lets say that you were assigned chapters 1, 3, 5, and 8 to read for this week, and that next week's chapters would be 13,14 and 19....

 

You do your quiz/test for this week and you note that the three quarters of the questions came from chapters 1, 3 ,5 and 8 but then you also notice one quarter of the questions came from chapters 14 and 19 which are from the content of next week....

 

how would you react?

 

 

(P.s. In my case, I consider myself very lucky in that I had already read the chapters in advanced...but I was somewhat annoyed though because I wasn't expecting to be "Surprise Attacked" since I feel that I am a very diligent student. I'm used to "Pre-emptive strikes" or "First Attack" - I'm using Final Fantasy terminology here to illustrate what I mean)

 

Edited September 27, 201510 yr by catmaster0116

It's utterly stupid. I've experienced questions like that and I think it's just again, utterly stupid and unnecessary. If you're assigned chapters, the questions should only be from those chapters. Getting questions from chapters that haven't been assigned yet is unfair. By being assigned chapters, it means you are responsible for THOSE CHAPTERS ONLY that week. You shouldn't have to go read extra chapters. You might as well have been assigned the extra chapters if that's the case. Content from the future shouldn't even be bonus questions. Bonus questions should only be about specific things from that chapter. (For example, a quiz on chapter 1, 2 and 3- what color was Sora's hat in chapter 1?) plus, it's bad to read ahead anyway. It often makes certain questions confusing. In my World Literature class, we were advised not to read ahead the assigned chapters because on the quiz it's easy to confuse answers from the assigned chapters with answers from the future chapters. This happened to me before as well plenty of times.

I've had that happen to me before, luckily it didn't affect my grade though, since the material from the unassigned chapter was stuff I was already fairly familiar with.

 

But personally I think that's a little unfair, since I'd assume the weekly quizzes would only be dedicated to the readings assigned for that week and not another. While I do think that's pretty unfair though, I think it might also be the professor's way of making sure the class is keeping up with the readings. Pretty silly, yes, but I mean I doubt they'd throw in material from unassigned readings without a good reason to. 

It's utterly stupid. I've experienced questions like that and I think it's just again, utterly stupid and unnecessary. If you're assigned chapters, the questions should only be from those chapters. Getting questions from chapters that haven't been assigned yet is unfair. By being assigned chapters, it means you are responsible for THOSE CHAPTERS ONLY that week. You shouldn't have to go read extra chapters. You might as well have been assigned the extra chapters if that's the case. Content from the future shouldn't even be bonus questions. Bonus questions should only be about specific things from that chapter. (For example, a quiz on chapter 1, 2 and 3- what color was Sora's hat in chapter 1?) plus, it's bad to read ahead anyway. It often makes certain questions confusing. In my World Literature class, we were advised not to read ahead the assigned chapters because on the quiz it's easy to confuse answers from the assigned chapters with answers from the future chapters. This happened to me before as well plenty of times.

 

I've had that happen to me before, luckily it didn't affect my grade though, since the material from the unassigned chapter was stuff I was already fairly familiar with.

 

But personally I think that's a little unfair, since I'd assume the weekly quizzes would only be dedicated to the readings assigned for that week and not another. While I do think that's pretty unfair though, I think it might also be the professor's way of making sure the class is keeping up with the readings. Pretty silly, yes, but I mean I doubt they'd throw in material from unassigned readings without a good reason to. 

 

Thanks guys for responding, your responses emotionally reassure me

and I'm sorry it happened to you too

Yeah I do feel its somewhat frustrating...its almost as if they were 'testing' to see which students are more devoted to the course

 

With that said I will contact the professor. And from now on I will study next week's content in advanced because I'll never know what trickery the educators will pull.

Ugh, I hate it when it happens. It's ten times worse when it's an external exam like the gcse cos you expect them to stick to the syllabus but Noooooo. They just have to give you a load of statistics questions in your BIOLOGY EXAM! I was alright because I had already done stats and passed, but some of my friends got confused with the terminology and stuff. It was damn annoying.

I've had that happen once, and it was rather unfair.  I mean, if you're reading assignments and studying the materials that you're supposed to, how is it fair to be graded on something you haven't read yet because you didn't think it was necessary to be there yet?  The instructors and professors really should inform you what the test/exam is going to be on so you can properly study for it.  They shouldn't expect students to go out of their way to read chapters ahead because they're going to be "surprise attacked."  To me that's just setting a student up for failure and won't really help them learn at all.  If they expect us to know it, they should tell us.