One feels for students in Hong Kong facing their university exams. First they had the disruption caused by months of protests and now the Corona virus has closed the universities. Many student unions are requesting that universities just give a pass or fail option rather than a grade.
All eight of Hong Kong’s public universities have said they plan to conduct final exams online next month – some in full and some partially – amid continued uncertainty over Covid-19, even as students continue to push for alternatives they see as more fair given the difficulties of online learning.
Student unions at a number of schools have asked that a pass-fail option be made available for most courses, meaning students would not receive letter grades and the classes would not be counted towards their overall grade point average.
The article raises some very valid reasons as to why the student unions are lobbying for this option.
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