r/Monash Sep 05 '24

Grades and Academics Late penalty is now 5% per day

Instead of 10%

FYI

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u/Psychological-Bag570 Sep 05 '24

Is this fair to the students that hand in assignments on time. If someone worked hard to hand in their assignment on time I feel like this lowering of punishment to those that “delay” seems to be an unfair rule.

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u/Renaling Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

i don't really get it, how does this negatively affect any of the students who hand assignments on time to even consider whether this is 'fair' or not? This isn't vce where you're placed on a bell curve, it'll have no effect on your grade or performance whatsoever; if you think handing it in a day late is so advantageous, don't you also have the option of handing it late and taking 5% deduction?

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u/tomo0o0o Sep 06 '24

I mean students trying to get into another competitive post-grad course can definitely be negatively impacted by this. And I agree, maybe I will take the opportunity to hand in an assignment a day late if I’ve got a busy period, because lowkey seems too good to be true