TAYEATRA'S BLOG
That's a little bit depressing.
Friday, May 5, 2006 4:21 PM
Ok, so... I have a lab partner for my chemistry labs and we've had 15hours of labs this semester.She's attended 4 hours of those compulsory labs. When it comes to writing the lab reports you are allowed to write a joint report with your partner so not wanting her to fail I agreed to write joint reports.
The first report I did all by myself. The entire fricking 9hour lab write up plus the pre-lab research questions. Handed it in on time and got 78%. That's a fricking 1st people. Obviously my lab partner got the same grade.
The second lab report I wrote up entirely again. With one exception. I was called home unexpectedly because of family illness so I emailed the entire report to my lab partner minus the pre-lab since i didn't have any research books with me.
I spoke to her and explained the situation and she said she'd do the pre-lab, put it in the gaps I'd labelled for her and then print out the report and hand it in...
Excellent! So, yeah I'd done 90% of the marks (pre-lab only worth 10%) but it was a weight off my mind knowing she'd hand it in.
One month later...
Today I got called into the lecturers office to discuss the lab report. Apparently my lab partner plaguerised the pre-lab from someone else... word for word... even copied and pasted their diagram.
Since it's a joint report we're both responsible. My mark for this report just went from 75% (first) to 40% capped (third class).
I lost 35% because she couldn't be arsed to answer two questions (one page of our 12 page lab report).
So thanks... thanks a lot.
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