Dealing with the professor: advice appreciated
Hi all I would like some inputs to deal with the oral exam / the nasty professor.
I just had to deal with him during one of his oral exams and in two weeks I have the other oral exam with him. I will describe what exactly was the problem. Any advice as to how to ace the exam appreciated.
Problem: the 20 minutes is the standard time for all the exams which that Prof is in charge of. He does not make use of it effectively: the entire exam time he was the one who mostly did the talking. I tried to just talk to myself to show them what I learned but his interruption won the race. Even though I answered his questions correctly he said I had to answer the same question again to which I was like "gosh I just told you have you not heard it? "
At the tail end of this exam I went on to explain the quick summary of the subject matters to the third examiner. Like "so you can use this app to record your medical checkups, you log into the app and your personal data is stored in the DB which is the integral part of the three tier architecture. This architecture is (the Prof blocked me).
I will see if those few minutes of quick app ran down will save my grade.
But how would you all behave if you were in my shoes? I have another one for another class with the same professor. Any advice for getting my point across better appreciated
TL:DR A prof did not dare to listen to me during my oral exam, I resorted to interrupt him and just talk to myself. How could I deal with him better next time so I could finish my sentences ?
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not really C# related so i don't know if this fits here... in any case, do you see your grades impacted by your professor's behavior? does he behave like this with the other students as well?
just tell the professors what you just typed out (leave 'the nasty professor.' out)
Yeah I know it's not really C# related but I just wanted to vent out my stress on the Internet
Sure I will see if my grades will be impacted by it but my observation is that he intentionally avoids understanding me or repeating the questions/pretending that he would not understand me
I am pretty sure he behaves like this with other students as well. So much so we take his name as an example of "the lead patient" just to dishonour him this way. One such student told me his presence scares her whenever she is in class etc
I am also pretty sure he tries to fail me in any way he could (yes we have some "great" shared histories in the last few semester)
i guess just do what you can and carry on
probably he is an hothead so confronting him would be worse
I will tell all this once again to the profs next week (see if my talking to myself wins or if his interruption/repeated questions win). But it has been stressful to see him on the exam. I feel like I'd have two different court procedure which sack up my mental energy
Yup, I just need to carry on
I already confronted him today. Next time I would not hesitate to scream/yell at him if I need to, see what happens next
perhaps screaming/yelling is not the solution at all, you could be suspended for misconduct
It could be. If they want to suspend me for misconduct they have to produce some written evidence plus witnesses' notes - collecting supporting documents take them time. I doubt they would dare to do so
just be careful i guess, i would never dare to do something like that in front of a professor (i say this as a student) since they could really compromise my academic career
Sure I will but I found out that yelling/screaming sometimes helps me get out of the stressful situation like this oral exam. Because of our shared "great" histories respect is lost between this prof and myself. I have already done something against him which I am sure compromised his academic career. So I somehow understand why he behaves like this with me. I never got good grades from him since then (so his classes are my GPA killers). But I am fine with this
Don't play the "They'd have to prove it"-game. Stay patient and polite. Do your best and note his behavior in a diary or something. That way if later you get a bad or non-passing grade you can contest his decisions and not have any negatives pointing to you.
Imagine getting a bad grade only to be told "Well yeah, you misbehaved, interrupted, were rude etc." You couldn't contest that.
Don't provide ammunition that way.
Put on your best behavior and let it play out.