See, the bolded lines are were I disagree with you. For me, the university courses aren't about testing my ability to keep fighting, it's about learning the content that they are prescribing in each class to a calibre which the university deems satisfactory and granting the student/me a passing grade.
Hancock I will address your points one by one. I don't think we really share that much of a difference in opinion (keep in mind it is ~5.45 am at the time I am writing this), and it is just a manner of taking information in or out of context: To set this in context for those reading, here is what I said:
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Let's remember that, this subject, and to a degree university itself, is designed to test your ability to keep up and fighting, to keep moving and not to get owned.
"This subject" implies the subject BIOM20001, of which my main focus was on discussing. It is famous for being of a high workload, and many do ultimately feel to keep fighting/moving to not to get owned.
"To a degree university itself": What I believe a University tests is multifaceted, of in my opinion in part incorporates "
to a degree" times when you will need to really push through and keep on moving in order not to get owned. Each person will have different experiences on this. I don't know about you, but there are certain times I fall so behind in work, or sometimes get lost in the detail I really need to fight through to get back on track, and not get owned. It does not imply I believe that it is the main nor only test of University itself. Again I think it is really multifaceted, of which to a degree it incorporates that.
My main focus was on BIOM20001, not University itself. If it were a discussion on University itself I would say quite a few different things. Refer back to my original post itself; it has more information to set the scene, if you just take a few statements and bold them they will seem out of context and can be taken differently from what I mean.
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It may be arguably advantaging or disadvantaging that some have access to the assessment feedback material whilst others don't. But I think the main issue is likely to have more implications than what might seem at face value. The people distributing the material may have even prepared for the whole subject during the holidays.
I will simplify what I have said in the quote: The people distributing the 'past assessment feedback material' are likely to not only have that resource but lots of the other resources, including likely lecture capture, lecture slides, perhaps past assessment questions and answers for online quizzes and so forth. This is what I meant by saying "the issue is likely to have more implications than what might seem at face value", that "I'm not implying every form of preparation is not recommended it is just there are particular forms which are if you like, more 'unfair' than others". This would explain why I believe is the main reason as to why the coordinators are pissed.
It shouldn't matter if you learnt the material over summer, during the semester, or even 10 years ago. If you know your stuff, you deserve the grade you are awarded. Biomedicine is inherently more competitive that other courses, but I think it's unjustified to say that over-preparing for a subject would be considered unfair for other students (this is what I'm getting from your last sentence, I may be inferring incorrectly however).
Again, quote from the original post:
I am not implying every form of preparation for a subject is not recommended, it is just there are particular forms which are if you like, more 'unfair' than others.
Everyone can buy a book or research things on the internet and so forth (I absolutely support this), but not everyone will necessarily have past lecture capture, feedback and answers to questions that you would not even get when the course starts until after the assessment, lecture slides, and so forth. These are the different levels of fairness I think that come into play. The subject I was referring to for example is somewhat famous for being of a high workload. Now if you have access to all of these things, the content is similar from year to year, the feedback questions you won't receive until after the assessment, you may have quiz questions and answers which you will be tested on etc that others don't, now don't you think that is a little unfair? What is your opinion on this? It isn't about the competition. It is however about the level of equality, of which as I mentioned the coordinators value, of which could account for why they are pissed off.
Edit: grammar.
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