How are papers graded at ICDC? Unfair grading? (ORs specifically)
I did BMOR this past ICDC.
I don’t quite know if “unfair” is the right word to describe this. But this just doesn’t feel right.
For my strategic plan, I spent three months designing it, and sent it out to the CMO of the company I wrote about. They even implemented parts of the strategic plan into their workflow after I designed it, and gave me data on the performance which I implemented into the forecasted growth in the financial section. Yet, I’m not sure how my strategic plan did so poorly on the written portion.
I got a 60/60 on the paper at the state competition with beaming comments specifically about my strategic plan, and all of the marketing professionals that have read my paper have said it’s rock solid and matches perfectly with the CSR theme.
In addition, all of the other sections on the written portion were around the 40th %ile and were at meets/exceeds expectations.
I followed each part of this rubric to a T when designing my plans, along with the paper and presentation itself (in the presentation I placed near the 75th %ile on every criteria except for one but I understand why I got that grade much more)
Although I’m a senior and am moving on from DECA, I can’t help but wonder how this could have happened to this section specifically. Anyone get graded similarly?