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Petition addressed to: UICOM Admin
UICOM has revealed during M1 orientation and the Friday Aug 21 M2 orientation (at Rockford) that raw block exam scores after the exams are being taken away. This is the initial score students see upon submitting their block exams. As such, M2 students at the Chicago campus have put together this petition to fight this new change which puts undo stress on students and reduces transparency.
This new change not only results in days of additional uncertainty for many students, who otherwise can have somewhat of an idea of what to expect come Monday when official MPLs and scores are released, but no longer allows us to see the change in score resulting from questions on the exam being removed after exam administration.
This has been an ongoing discussion amongst students and the school because having a question you had gotten correct removed from the exam is designed to be punitive as it drops the exam score for the particular student who had gotten it correct. This question can be the difference between retaking the exam or moving forward, and even between retaking the year or continuing on with the rest of your class. This new change gives us pause — who does it benefit to reduce transparency? Instead, why should we not have an honest dialogue with our university leadership about why their system works this way when questions are removed? We have much more to gain from hearing the reasoning there than this loss in transparency.
Having the exam scores be released on Monday with the MPL will most definitely cause many of us loads and loads of stress, and as such, we believe that this change should be reversed and that the raw scores should be released as soon as the exams are completed by students, as they historically were.
The night and weekend after block exams are a time for students to come together as a community and celebrate the achievement of having another block exam under their belt, one block closer to becoming a doctor. Whether students come to their class’s block party disappointed or satisfied by their raw exam score, it’s an opportunity to find support, closure, and celebration. This needless change hurts our community, discourages our coming together to support and celebrate, and harms our trust in our school system.
Please sign on and share this petition so we can show the magnitude this decision holds for our class and future classes.
Reason
This petition is important because students deserve transparency and trust in an assessment process that has significant consequences for their academic progression and well-being. Immediate access to raw exam scores gives students valuable preliminary information about their performance while allowing them to understand how subsequent removal of exam questions affects their final score. Eliminating that access creates unnecessary uncertainty over the weekend, reduces students’ ability to recognize changes between their raw and final scores, and makes an already stressful examination process less transparent. Restoring immediate raw-score reporting would preserve a longstanding practice that supports student well-being, accountability, and confidence in the assessment process.
Thank you so much for your support, Azmer Khan, Oak Park
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Petition details
Petition started:
08/21/2026
Collection ends:
02/20/2027
Region:
Rockford
Topic:
Education
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The ability to see my raw score after the exam (although not definitive if the pass/fail status) is a very significant contributor to my ability to feel alleviated of academic stress for 1 weekend and prevent burnout. Taking away the raw score viewing immediately after the exam extends the stress we will face and negatively impact mental health. Medical students already face a significantly higher rate of depression than the average population and knowingly making a choice that makes medical school feel more stressful is a disservice to students and fostering an unsupportive environment. Medical training is already incredibly demanding in terms of the amount of time required and the 3 day weekend prior to synthesis week has always felt like a “gift,” which we are being robbed of for no good reason. It’s also a weekend where I get to reflect on my performance in the past block (based on the score) and try to set up ways to improve/maintain my study habits for the upcoming blocks without feeling bogged down by the numerous mandatories during synthesis week. I strongly believe that the College of Medicine’s decision to eliminate immediate access to raw exam scores directly undermines its commitment to foster a, supportive learning environment.
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I agree with the broad majority of students who are extremely disappointed by a clearly regressive move regarding transparency in our medical education.