Computers Make Mistakes Too.

With the rapid increase in the number of computer-marked exams, the number of marking mistakes has been drastically reduced; or so the professors would have us believe. After some of my friends and I received our final exam marks, we were all very disappointed. Nobody wanted to approach the teacher and question their mark; it was a multiple choice exam that was marked by a computer. How could a computer make a mistake?

I thought I deserved a higher mark, despite what the computer said, so I approached the professor and asked if it was possible that the computer “messed up”. Initially the professor said it was impossible for the computer to “mess up”. But seeing my desperation, he consented to double-check the computer’s work and discovered that there was in fact a mistake. As it turns out, the score card had been fed into the computer improperly. In the end, my mark was raised 22%, which brought me from a C to an A.

Don’t ever be afraid to ask your professor to double check your mark, even if it was marked by a computer! I was the only person out of all my friends who asked the professor to double-check these marks, so the others will never know if they truly deserved those bad marks or not!