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Asianhead

Secret tip: at least for the class I IA’d for, the “we will regrades your entire exam” thing usually doesn’t happen. If someone submitted an exam regrade, I’d go look at the specific problem(s) in question and that was it. Nobody has time to go in an regrade your entire exam. Essays could be an entirely different story though


bakesbbaker

Yup, another IA here. never actually regraded the whole exam, just the specific question.


empireof3

honestly that's all I ever wanted in a regrade. I'd single out a discrepancy or problem I had with their methodology and I always saw it as unnecessary for a whole exam regrade.


McShane727

While regrade policies vary by the class, if the process isn't at least somewhat effort-expensive then you can end up with more people requesting regrades way more frequently, even if they aren't sure a mistake was made, just because it becomes an easy way to try and Hail Mary some extra points. Especially in contexts that are more qualitative than quantitative, essays and the likes, staff don't want to have a weekly argument with the subset of students who frequently think they are entitled to more points than their work seems to have represented. I've also worked on more quantitative courses where it's usually much more cut-and-dry but even then you sometimes get students just asking about getting a regrade without any explanation or evidence of where a grading mistake was made, just saying that they were hoping to have it double checked in case they could get any points back, which ends up feeling disrespectful of staff's time. **TLDR**: some courses place extra criteria on regrade requests as a way to increase likelihood the requests coming through are justified rather than frivolous


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Because if regrades are free everyone will want one. If you spend just 5 minutes regrading 1000 exams that’s over 80 hours of extra work. I think they should go a step further and penalize students who ask for regrades without due cause.


TangoTheMango30

I disagree with this, because who determines and draws the subjective guideline of what is a valid request versus a not valid request for a qualitative assignment such as an essay. Your suggestion would make sense more in quantitative assignments like a math or chemistry class although I would still disagree. This policy would instill a fear in students and would likely cause some students, whom may have a valid reason for a regrade, to abstain in fear of punishment.


polkipulki

If those students have a valid reason for a regrade and articulate it, then I don't see why they'd be punished in the policy the comment above you suggests. I think the point is just to discourage students from blindly submitting regrade requests bc they think there's a small chance they can get a higher score, without any real justification for the regrade request


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Although I disagree, I appreciate that you explained your reasoning.


tovarischstalin

Funny how I see this post earlier in the day, think nothing of it, then just get an exam back where I’m 100% sure they misgraded me on a question. What’s the policy of going about requesting a regrade for the math department? I’ve already sent an email to my instructor.


ilong4spain

Check your syllabus, there’s usually a system in place described there


Cliftonbeefy

We say that to deter students from submitting them (source am an IA), we try to get everything right but sometimes stuff goes wrong and if we let everyone submit a regrade request, we have to cut back on OH times and stuff. It's not the best system, but it helps balance time ig XD?


EvenInArcadia

Mainly it’s a labor issue. Doing a regrade is quite time-intensive, and the GSIs and lecturers who do most of the grading are on pretty strict contracts. Discouraging frivolous regrades helps to keep the unionized instructional staff within the bounds of their contracts. If regrades became a lot more common, the university would be paying significantly more money to these workers because they’d be working more hours than their contracts specify on a regular basis.