1 reviews | Active since Jan 2014
Deliberately Failing Students
Good day,
I'm 162141 and received 26/60 for my Functional Areas of Management Project which is less than 50% and constitutes failing the module, despite achieving 100% on both assignments.
I raised it with the student advisor telephonically and was advised that there's no way that they marked it incorrectly. I asked a fellow student who achieved 96% to advise where I went wrong and discovered that the question was changed mid-year.
This change was not communicated to a few students and neither to the lecturers. During our last lecture (26 September 2020), the lecturer discussed was the project question I submitted and there were no objections from students regarding the question change. How does an institution change a project question confirmed at the end of 2019, less than a month before submission?
I connected a Tutor and found that the protect I submitted has still been marked and that at first glance my assignment would at least receive 40/60.
I've logged calls and asked for my work to be reviewed in time for the resubmission date. The resubmission rule is that one should apply 5 working days after receiving your mark. The marks were released on Thursday evening the 19th and the remark has been closed already, not even 4 working days later.
Finally got through to a student advisor to clear up the confusion and was told I would have feedback by COB today, 18 11 2020. After multiple calls and being hung up on, I still don't have any resolution.
Why fail students when the changes weren't properly communicated? Not even to lecturers?
Horrible Service!
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Please note a MANCOSA representative will be in contact with you shortly.
MANCOSA Student Services
I received a call from S*** in your customer complaints department and was advised that I would receive feedback in 2-3 hours.
That was this morning before 10 am this morning. I called at 16:45 and spoke with a charity who tried to connect me to the assessment department, where the phone just rang.
This uncer*****y has caused countless hours of lost focus chasing up on this query, during exams.
I've simply asked that Mancosa confirms whether my project was marked using the correct script as the project question was claimed so that I can either resubmit or remark. It's been 7 working days and I've received no concrete feedback.
My academic record now shows this as a fail and I have to resubmit to improve my mark.
This is absolute torture!
I received a call from S*** in your customer complaints department and was advised that I would receive feedback in 2-3 hours.
That was this morning before 10 am this morning. I called at 16:45 and spoke with a charity who tried to connect me to the assessment department, where the phone just rang.
This uncer*****y has caused countless hours of lost focus chasing up on this query, during exams.
I've simply asked that Mancosa confirms whether my project was marked using the correct script as the project question was claimed so that I can either resubmit or remark. It's been 7 working days and I've received no concrete feedback.
My academic record now shows this as a fail and I have to resubmit to improve my mark.
This is absolute torture!
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MANCOSA Student Services
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MANCOSA Student Services
