{"id":10836,"date":"2014-08-07T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2019-08-05T00:51:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:51:37","slug":"uncharted-moral-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10836","title":{"rendered":"uncharted territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little moral dilemma here. I got my quiz and test returned to me in class, and after doing the math I found that the TA\/prof gave me extra marks. They never announced that they curved the quiz and test, and they said that people did well on all of them. Should I tell them about my marks, or should I keep silent and enjoy my free marks?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>well, you know, while aska tries to be at least somewhat <a href=\"https:\/\/p.gr-assets.com\/540x540\/fit\/hostedimages\/1381602269\/5085677.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">morally upright<\/a> on this site (i figure flipping out on a couple first year students per year isn&#8217;t morally reprehensible, it&#8217;s just good planning), the main focus here is to educate people about uoft&#8217;s rules and regulations. the aim is always to be able to link to a university page that&#8217;ll help educate you more.<\/p>\n<p>in this case though, we seem to be in uncharted territory &#8211; no link. for that reason, i&#8217;m not gonna advise you either way.<\/p>\n<p>what i will say is that there is no rule at the university that requires a student to speak with a prof\/instructor\/TA about incorrect marks, whether you get extra marks or not enough.<\/p>\n<p>good luck to you, my morally torn citizen,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little moral dilemma here. I got my quiz and test returned to me in class, and after doing the math I found that the TA\/prof gave me extra marks. They never announced that they curved the quiz and test, and they said that people did well on all of them. Should I tell them about my marks, or should I keep silent and enjoy my free marks? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, well, you know, while aska tries to be at least somewhat morally upright on this site (i figure flipping out on a couple first year students per year isn&#8217;t morally reprehensible, it&#8217;s just good planning), the main focus here is to educate people about uoft&#8217;s rules and regulations. the aim is always to be able to link to a university page that&#8217;ll help educate you more. in this case though, we seem to be in uncharted territory &#8211; no link. for that reason, i&#8217;m not gonna advise you either way. what i will say is that there is no rule at the university that requires a student to speak with a prof\/instructor\/TA about incorrect marks, whether you get extra marks or not enough. good luck to you, my morally torn citizen, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}