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Pass/Fail Credit for Field Practice of "Individual Plan" Students

Summarizing the results of the zoological field practice test for students who were enrolled under individual plans. There is reason to be concerned... UPDATED!

Dear 3rd-year students who completed the 2nd-year zoological field practice under an individual plan!
The situation is serious. Although the field practice credit will count toward your winter exam session, in order to be included in the scholarship ranking you must receive a passing grade by December 14. My hope that your work could be assessed using the same grading system as those who attended the practice in person turned out to be unfounded. Things are considerably worse. This was, to some extent, predictable — attending the practice in person is genuinely valuable.
Here is what we did (this is a way to increase the scores of those among you who are making an effort to study). During the practice, students received 20 points for the herpetology and ichthyology test, and 28 points for the ornithology and theriology test. An additional 12 points were awarded for participation in field excursions. The "individual plan" students had no excursions and performed worse on the tests. Therefore, we calculated your grades based on 30 points per test, determining each grade in proportion to the best result in your cohort. If the best result on the herpetology and ichthyology test was 71% correct answers, we assigned 30 points for exactly that score. A student who scored 35% correct answers (half of the maximum) receives half the points — 15. Even under this lenient calculation, only 5 out of 47 students who still lacked a credit actually passed. We took an unprecedented step: we rounded up to 50 points the scores of those who had accumulated 40 or more points. This allowed us to award an additional 5 passing credits (with the minimum number of points).
Some of the individual research papers (NDRSs) you submitted remain primitive falsifications. We assign 0 points for these. Those with a low score on the ornithology and theriology test must arrange a retake with Tetyana Andriivna. Those who missed one or both tests must take them.
The results are as follows.

Student

Herpeto-Ichthyo

Ornith-Therio

NDRS

Exam points

Subpopulation A

NDRS Topic

%

% correct answers

Answ.

% of answers

1

Antonenko Olena

0,34

15

7

11

30

56

Passed

Right- and left-handedness

2

Arshynna Liliana

0,26

11

10

16

0

27

3

Buliskeriia Tamriko

0,36

15

6

9

20

44

+ (rounded up)

Distribution of sparrows

4

Hubin Mykhailo

0,37

16

5

8

0

24

5

Demianets Olena

0,38

16

9

14

10

40

+(rounded up)

Diversity of pigeons

6

Denysenko Daria

0,27

11

8

13

30

54

Passed

City birds

7

Yeromenko Daria

0,25

11

11

17

0

28

8

Kalinichenko Viktoriia

0,38

16

3

5

20

41

+(rounded up)

9

Maiboroda Ihor

0,44

19

7

11

30

10

Mala Mariia

0,26

11

4

6

17

11

Massache Daniiela

0,29

12

?

?

?

?

+(rounded up)

12

Misiuha Kostiantyn

0,29

12

1

2

0

14

13

Mykhaiska Anastasiia

0,30

13

9

14

27

14

Narankho Dieho

0,31

13

?

?

?

+(rounded up)

15

Oleksiienko Anna

0,31

13

12

19

10

42

+(rounded up)

Diversity of pigeons

16

Peliak Yana

0,44

19

9

14

10

43

+(rounded up)

Diversity of pigeons

17

Polonska Anna

0,44

19

9

14

25

58

Passed

Booted eagle

18

Rybak Daria

0,48

20

2

3

0

23

19

Rybak Natalia

0,37

16

3

5

0

21

20

Romanova Vladyslava

0,35

15

2

3

18

21

Sirobaba Olha

0,29

13

0

13

22

Soroka Kateryna

0,41

17

0

17

23

Starovoitov Daniil

0,31

13

9

14

20

47

+(rounded up)

Chick survival rate

24

Tatevosian Danyl

0,40

17

9

13

10

19

+(rounded up)

Food of grass snakes

25

Tereshchenko Zhanna

0,37

16

2

3

25

44

+(rounded up)

Booted eagle

26

Tymofiienko Yuliia

0,35

15

8

13

30

58

Passed

City birds

27

Trunova Dana

0,37

16

7

11

30

57

Passed

Right- and left-handedness

28

Fam Mykyta

0,38

16

4

6

5

27

29

Fedorenko Anna

0,36

15

1

2

17

30

Chernyshova Olha

0,27

11

12

19

0

30

Max. score

Bakai Antonii

0,71

30

Max. score

Makarova Marharyta

19

30

Have not even started: Bondarchuk T., Holovchenko Ya., Zinchenko D., Yaienko L., Petrova A., Khuseinova A., Yahshybaiev M., Kalna D., Kislitsyna K.
Get to work!
Upd. 11.12.2017: five students completed the herpetology-ichthyology test, and two more took the ornithology-theriology test. Two students from Ecuador who passed both tests had their credits rounded up to passing. Additionally, the female students I had asked to discuss their work with T.A. did so (and all received their grades — 0). The additions are highlighted in red in the table.
Upd. 14.12.2017: T. Buliskeria, V. Kalinichenko, and D. Tatevosian received their credits after making up what was missing. None of them reached 50 points, but the credit was rounded up to passing.
All those who did not receive a passing credit are not eligible to be included in the scholarship ranking.