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返却されたプレゼンとレポートの評価
期末試験を直前に控えたこの時期、プレゼンテーションやレポートといった課題の評価が返却されます。
採点はとても厳しく行われ、論理があやふやだったり、分析が浅かったりすると評価は大幅に下がってしまいます。
この結果が期末試験のやる気にも影響を及ぼすので、学生は皆、気が気ではありません。
いい結果が得られるよう、一生懸命努力をしてきた武藤さん。
果たして評価はどうだったのでしょうか?
Feedback
Assignments at my university are marked very strictly. If your logic is muddled or your analysis shallow, your grades drop dramatically, so little wonder that most students (not only foreign students but Australian students as well) are worried about their marks.
Assignments at my university are graded into six categories: High Distinction (more than 85 percent), Distinction (75-84 percent), Credit (65-74 percent), Pass (50-64 percent), Pass Conceded (45-49 percent) and Fail (less than 44 percent). For me, High Distinctions (HD) and Distinctions (D) are impossible dreams. Passes (P) and Pass Concededs (PC) are my reality.
We normally get the results of our assignments — and any feedback — a week or two before our finals. We can then gauge how hard we have to study for our exams based on those results. This has its advantages and its disadvantages. If you do well in your assignments, it can inspire confidence; if you do badly, it can make you lose motivation.
When I was doing my assignments, I worked flat out to get good results. For example, when I was writing up a business report, I would try my best to follow what the lecturer had said in class. I would read as many of the prescribed books as I could, and I would be very careful not to plagiarize (plagiarism is a major issue here; you aren't allowed to copy even a single sentence from another source). I would also check for incoherence, grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, and after I'd done all that, I would reference my sources.
It was exhausting. But at the same time very satisfying, particularly after finishing an assignment. Then I would sit back and think, "This is at least a Distinction or a Credit." Silly me. I would later be forced to eat my own words.
On the day I got the results for my business report, I was confident — until one of my Australian friends said, "Hey, Kazu! Did you get your results? Mine sucked, man. I got just a PC." Suddenly I was very worried. If I got a PC it would be very hard to recover from that.
I went to my tutorial, where I would find out my grades. "Hi, guys," said the tutor. "Today I'm returning your feedback for your business report and your presentation." The presentation? That was a surprise.
First came the results of our presentation. I barely had the courage to look at the paper, but when I did, my jaw hit the ground. It was a High Distinction! I immediately checked to see that I had been given the right sheet of paper, that it wasn't someone else's mark. But it was my mark, and I was thrilled.
Then I was given the results of my business report. After the HD, I was confident that I would do well. What stared back at me, however, was a large PC. I had been marked down because my analysis was too weak.
How do I express what I felt after that? On the one hand, I had a High Distinction; on the other, I had a Pass Conceded. I did a quick calculation. I have to get at least 50 percent in my business finals, which are coming up a week from now. Yes. My finals are upon me.
- Feedback
- 評価
- Assignments
- 課題
- are marked
- 採点される
- strictly
- 厳しく
- logic
- 論理
- muddled
- あやふやな
- analysis
- 分析
- shallow
- 浅い
- grades
- 評価
- dramatically
- 大幅に
- little wonder that 〜
- 〜しても無理はない
- not only 〜 but 〜 as well
- 〜だけでなく〜も
- marks
- 評価
- are graded into six categories
- 6段階で採点される
- High Distinction
- 優秀
- Distinction
- 秀
- Credit
- 優
- Pass
- 良
- Pass Conceded
- 可
- Fail
- 不可
- less than 〜
- 〜以下
- impossible dreams
- かなわぬ夢
- finals
- 期末試験
- gauge
- 判断する
- based on 〜
- 〜に基づいて
- advantages
- 長所
- disadvantages
- 短所
- inspire confidence
- 自信を持たせる
- badly
- 芳しくなく
- motivation
- やる気
- worked flat out to 〜
- 一生懸命〜した
- For example
- 例えば
- follow 〜
- 〜に従う
- lecturer
- 講師
- as many of the prescribed books as I could
- 参考文献として指定された本をできるだけ
- (be)careful not to 〜
- 〜しないよう気を付ける
- plagiarize
- 盗作する
- plagiarism
- 盗作
- issue
- 問題
- aren't allowed to 〜
- 〜することはできない
- copy 〜
- 〜を写す
- sentence
- 文
- source
- 出典
- incoherence
- 矛盾
- grammatical errors
- 文法の間違い
- spelling mistakes
- スペルミス
- reference 〜
- 〜を明記する
- exhausting
- へとへとに疲れさせる
- satisfying
- 満足のいく
- particularly
- 特に
- sit back and think 〜
- くつろいで〜と思う
- at least
- 少なくとも
- Silly me
- 僕はばかだった
- later
- 後に
- be forced to 〜
- 〜せざるをえなくなる
- eat my own words
- 間違いを認めて前言を取り消す
- confident
- 自信のある
- Mine sucked
- 自分のは最悪だった
- man
- 君
- Suddenly
- 急に
- tutorial
- 個別指導
- tutor
- 講師
- First came 〜
- 初めに〜が返ってきた
- barely had the courage to 〜
- ほとんど〜する度胸がなかった
- my jaw hit the ground
- とてもびっくりした
- immediately
- すぐに
- sheet of paper
- 用紙
- someone else
- 他人
- was thrilled
- うれしくてぞくぞくした
- What stared back at me
- 自分の目に入ったもの
- had been marked down
- 評価が下がった
- weak
- 弱い
- express
- 表現する
- On the one hand 〜 on the other 〜
- 〜の一方で、〜
- calculation
- 計算
- are coming up
- 迫っている
- 〜 are upon me
- 〜はすぐ目の前だ