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The original was posted on /r/professors by /u/SocOfRel on 2023-10-06 17:03:44.

I made a dumb mistake today. I’m the problem, it’s me.

I’m curious what you would do in this situation.

On Wednesday, our faculty support person made copies of a test that I gave this morning. When I handed out the tests, a student asked “Is it supposed to start with question 7?” I said no, then discovered that only every other page had been copied. This is on me as I should have checked the tests before handing them out. Mistakes happen.

So, now a 40 question midterm exam is 20 questions. I do scatter material around on the test, so the majority of topics ended up with at least 1 question, though one section of material definitely ended up overrepresented. This midterm was to be worth 1/5 of the final grade. In the moment, I said take the exam you have in front of you and I’ll figure out how to handle it later. Another section of the same class came in immediately after and they took the same half-exam.

What would you do for grading?

p.s. One student ended up with the original that I had provided to make the copies, and took the whole thing even though I’d made it clear half the test was missing. Honestly that’s got me more confused!