COS Department exam entrance allowance

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 Can we please not make this a cos 284 thing but the whole department in its entirety. This should not be a thing of "since I made it into the exams I'm going to side with the department". Deep down we all know how inconsiderate this department is sometimes. And I do acknowledge that they try hard to make things fair but it's like when they make these solutions of theirs, they don't actually think about students who are marginalised. Why is it that a department that requires university resources more than most other departments on campus is the one being the most inconsiderate? 

So please don't act like this UNISA system that was imposed on us was fair to all, none of us planned for this, especially students without resources, so why must they be punished and have to fail and pay the full university fees when they didn't attend classes for half the semester and have access to the labs because of protests? The department must acknowledge that even if they managed to make us write all our semester tests and tutorials and practicals, that doesn't eliminate the fact that the environment that we were under didn't allow for students to perform at their best. Now if we can't perform at our best, why must the exam entrance remain as if we were all given an opportunity to perform at our best??