Around 100 first-year Medicine college students at UNAM not too long ago held a gathering to handle issues concerning the current exams within the Biochemistry course. They demanded that the director, Ana Carolina Sepúlveda, hearken to their requests for a assessment of the exams, during which they declare “nearly the entire group failed.”
In a letter submitted to the director’s technical secretary, César Octavio García, the scholars requested a assessment of the exams for attainable grading errors, and requested for optimistic marks to be assigned if crucial. They additionally known as for an exterior fee from the Department of Biological Sciences to supervise the preparation, choice, and administration of exams to forestall any bias or errors from impacting college students on this technology and future ones.
Furthermore, the scholars urged an investigation into the historical past of conflicts between the division and the scholars to find out accountability for choices and outcomes associated to the Biochemistry course. They expressed issues about injustice and poor decision-making, suggesting that there might have been fraudulent practices that led to college students dropping out of this system.
Two college students, Scire Canseco and Noé Flores, spoke on the assembly and emphasised the necessity for a good and clear examination course of. The college students are scheduled to fulfill with the director of the Faculty subsequent Monday to debate their calls for and search resolutions.