Uh, good evening guys. We had a long exam earlier, which bears about 20% of my grade in that course. To be direct, one of the members of the faculty team for the major course, apparently told the class to not use pencil and shade our answers with a ballpen. Ang exact na wording is that "pwede raw ang erasures sa questionnaire but not on the answer sheet" (we regularly use Zipgrade sheets for answering).
So I genuinely wasn't able to realize what they meant to say, so I proceeded to shading everything with a pencil. Guys, alam ko naman yung lapses ko bago niyo sabihin na aanga-anga ako or something. Pero I also want to say na complex yung mga included topics sa exam namin (like nervous and endocrine systems), and medyo limited yung time (90 minutes for 100 items) so my mind was really focused on getting everything right. Well, I mostly got everything right except sa part na maggamit ng ballpen lol.
Gusto ko ilaban yung proapective grade ko for that exam kasi alam ko sa sarili ko na pinaghirapan ko i-memorize and i-understand lahat ng tinuro nila. So far, sa mga recent exam scores ko, laging satisfactory o maganda yung results ko (like 75%, 93%, and so on). Sadya lang talaga na mas nangibabaw yung pressure saken kaya di ko nagets yung instruction nila. To be fair, sabi sa exam primer na sinend nila is to bring a pen and a pencil, at saka lang nila sinabi to use a pen for shading nung mismong exam na talaga.
I am also aware of the policy regarding grade solicitation. I do not want to ask for bonus points or extra work (since they have clearly stated yung grade breakdown and expected actvities nung orye). Gusto ko lang is ilaban yung ginawa kong effort, and na baka pwede nila i-consider yung answer sheet ko.
I am also really vying to earn a cum laude-standing grade for this subject, and I swear to earth that I always pass my requirements on time (except dun sa isang lab sheet na, in my defense, sobrang liit lang ng bearing sa grade, like 1%). I always spend a lot of effort to make sure I don't sit my exams without knowing and understanding the covered topics.
I anticipate na may mga magrereact negatively, and I understand naman why others would feel like that. Pero kasi alam ko na binuhos ko effort ko dun sa exam na yun eh, kaya gusto ko lang talaga ilaban 🥹
TLDR: I want to approach the lead professor ng A&P faculty team namin and ask respectfully what they would do to entertain my situation, without violating the policy on grade solicitation.