We as the 2018 PGDA students of Monash demand the 40% minimum entry requirement for final exams to be scrapped, all students should be allowed to write the exams.
Reasons why:
1. Not enough time has been given to us students to prepare for year tests (4 assignments due days before Test 3 series began)
2. Exposure to the final exam for students who may have to repeat the following year, can only be beneficial.
3. Not enough days during PGDA holidays to recover and catch up on amount of work (in comparison to other PGDA programs).
4. Errors in solutions to practice packs we are given to use in our preparations are only fixed hours before tests, after numerous emails.
5. Changes in lecturers for Financial Reporting twice, no consideration of time needed to adapt to new lecturer.
6. We had to write our most important Test series without knowledge of our results for the previous test, therefore not knowing where we needed to improve.
7. Monash has been sold, this raises questions on the continuation of the 2 year program and SAICA accreditation passing to the new University for the following year.
8. Practice packs we are given to use as preparation not in line with standards of papers set for us.
9. The students who are still registered when the alternative was to deregister and be refunded, show their determination in completing the program, no matter the challenges.
