Cyber Security (B.Sc.)

There is many many things wrong to say the least but here is some of what I have experienced:

1) In first semester (Statistics) the module has always had mistakes in it (and still has after 1 and half year!!), I am not talking about the odd mistake here and there, I am talking about at least 1-2 mistakes in every subunit and mistakes in the mini questions which are after each unit (which are supposedly there to help you practice for the exam), but how can you practice for the exam and be confident that you are solving right when there is mistakes in the solutions??
I would spend hours trying to figure out why my solution is wrong asking colleagues, chat gpt, googling, youtubing and solving again and again and again only to then find out 2 weeks later through teams by asking the professor that the solution in the book is wrong!!

I started studying this module in August 2022, then when I got to about 3/4 of the way in the module we got the news that the book will be updated to an error-free one. So I put this module on pause and I started with another one, a few months (yes months) later the "new" module was released, again full of mistakes, like nothing was done. Only some new exercises were added and some things re-ordered.
I started studying this module again for the second time, then the professor resigned, then for a while there was no "real" tutor for this, only a temporary tutor, then another tutor was appointed and he seemed very good, I studied using the book (not really very helpful, it´s more like : here is some herogliphic and very very difficult high level statistical math, go figure it out yourself, with mistakes included, because why not? a bit of a challenge) and this new tutor´s videos, which to be honest to the gentleman he did put a lot of effort in them and what seemed to be impossible and hopeless to understand become more easily understandable.

Then when I finally prepared long and hard for this exam (took me about 3 months due to the reasons mentioned above) I booked the exam and sat it. And again believe it or not they changed the tutor again 2 weeks before I sat the exam.

I thought i did well, well apparently i didn´t, I failed. But that is not the problem.

Now the second problem: I had to wait for the exam result for 2 months, then I asked to see the exam (review) to see what my mistakes were and hopefully pass the second time. I had to wait first 10 working days to even be able to submit the application for a review!! then I had to wait another 3 weeks for the only 1/2 appointments available to review which couldn´t be online and had to be in person. (Strange given that the entire study is advertised as online??).

So in total between the date of me sitting the exam and receiving the exam for review 3+ months, then, to make things even worst, when I got the exam for review at the IU center, I was surprised there is no notes!!! no comments!!! nothing to state why points where deducted.

I wrote what I could in the (30 minutes) they gave me as to why I think it is correct. Then, again I had to wait another 2 months for another professor to review it. The comments were then sent to me by someone in the exam office in such format:

question 12, a) wrong, b)right, c) wrong because the x is wrong
question 17 a) wrong and I dont know why the other professor gave points for it, b) the student clearly shows an understanding of the graph but the answer is wrong because the questions was asking about the pdf

and so on for another 6 or so questions.

First of all, how can I possibly know what question 12,a,b,c and question 17 and whatnot are when the last time I saw the exam was 2 months ago??
The email was finished by the gentleman with " this decision is final", I replied to his email asking to resend the questions so I can compare them with the comments so the comments make sense, and to this date (3 weeks) have not received any answer.

keep in mind this is one of the most difficult modules in the studies, many many student (high percentage) have failed it once and some even twice.
Nevermind the fact that the literature itself is very difficult to understand and that there is very little support to help understand it.

As I said coursebook changed twice and Professor/tutor 3 times.
And all this time you have to pay the monthly fee, which makes it more expensive despite not being your fault.
There is also many many other issues with this modules that I haven´t mentioned like the fact that the german colleagues that study the EXACT same bachelor and have the SAME module have the option to SOLVE A WORKBOOK which is made of a few questions.
They can take however long they want to take to solve it , they can also solve with an open book and even work in teams to solve it, unlike english students, who MUST sit an exam and solve under time pressure of 1 and half hour, alone and memorise about 30 or so formulas. It sounds a bit like discrimination to me.

In second semester we have algebra maths, I recently sat the exam, when I was in the exam, 3 of the open ended questions which carry about 25% of the total grade where displaying an error, this was recorded, witnessed and verified both by Examity and by the lady from the exams office. Is this my fault? No. Am i supposed to carry the consequences of this? Apparently yes because exam's office answer in short was:
"We offer you to repeat the exam again without counting the first time as an attempt, otherwise despite the disruption your grade will count"
oh no you don't say, how generours of you. So now due to a mistake from your side I have to resit one of the hardest modules for a second time, meaning I have to prepare again for another 2 months or so and wait again 2 months for correction and release of grades, all while paying, you don't say. And "otherwise your grade will count despite disruption" i.e we will give you 0 points for 25% of the entire exam, despite not being my fault? seemingly yes.

This is what you have to deal with at IU.

I tried to call many many times to speak to someone about those issues, the only answer you get on the phone is " we are not the responsible people for this", " the reponsible department only has email", " we cannot help you", "the only thing you can do is reply to the email" (yes the email with the blackmail ultimatum, you either re sit the exam or we give you 0 points for what was supposed to be a quarter of your grade, and yes despite being our fault)

I have had the phone hanged up on me several time too.
Now I expect to fail in every module I take the exam for because you are kind of under their "mercy" so to say, that is if they do not send me a termination and cancel my contract for writing this review. Everything can be expected from IU.

Very very dissapointed, I hope they fix these issues.