IMaN00BieGF
Senior member
Should have posted one less time on ATOT... Better try next semester 😉
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DAMNIT! My genetics professor just posted the grades for our final...
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thraashman
Lifer
I got a C in my calc 1 class in college. The grades in the class were all based on 30 since we never had tests and we had a weekly quiz that was 30 points. The final counted as 4 quizes. I had a 24.3 out of 30 at the end of the class. That comes out to an 81, but the professor had his version of a curve, and to him that was a C. I was pissed needless to say.
I was once unlucky enough to get all 4 finals from the classes I was taking on the same day..... and it was Monday. I didn't have the typical study week most people get during finals. I was forced to study like a madman the last real week of class to be prepared. I wouldn't really say I deserved I higher grade on any of the finals because of that, but by the time I started my night class final I was about spent. However, I still did well on it (I actually got a better score on it than all the others), and I got to leave 3 days early.
Agreed, I had a teacher in high school who really hated me because I slept through his class everyday and still got an A. One day he pulled me aside and showed me that I had gotten a 90.00004% in that quarter and he REALLY wanted to give me a B, but the school wouldn't let him (if you hadn't guessed it was a math professor, no English professor would have done the math to 5 decimal places). So if you don't want them lowering scores based on personal opinions then don't let them raise either.
snoopdoug1
Platinum Member
better not applaud the prof then...
CollectiveUnconscious
Senior member
That's a worthless professor. Anyone in my department would be laughed out of the office if they did that.
I was off 1 point out of like 2000 in a freshman econ class and the woman wouldn't budge. I sifted through all the homeworks and I compared the grading to one of my classmate's (who had a different TA) and I noticed that on one question, we had the same answer but he had more points than I did. She still wouldn't budge and even accused me of cheating on the homework. That ticked me off so I escalated to the department head and got my grade bumped from B+ to A-.
interchange
Diamond Member
I once needed a 54 on a final to keep my A in DiffEq. It was the last of my 6 finals, and I was too burnt out to study hard for it. The prof made a killer exam in which I got a 52 (ouch). He would not bump up my grade at all, despite that my lowest grade on the exams (we dropped our lowest one) was an 80, etc., etc. The kicker? When he tabulated the final grades, the distribution was too low due to his horrendous final. So he decided to give anyone who got a legit B on the final an overall A in the class regardless of any of their previous grades. This was a totally unstated policy.
Moral of the story:
Life isn't fair. You shouldn't expect to be awarded something you earned more than another. However, what you failed to achieve was within your grasp in the first place. Work harder if you truly want something.
Moral of the story:
Life isn't fair. You shouldn't expect to be awarded something you earned more than another. However, what you failed to achieve was within your grasp in the first place. Work harder if you truly want something.
I would prefer to live in a world where people don't get special treatment because they bitch. Wah wah wah, I want an A, wah wah wah, I want free money from the government for not working and having 6 children.
Where does it end? What if I had an 89.3%? The next guy 89.2%, the next 89%? You get the idea.
The big deal is everyone feels they are entitled to everything. I am entitled to an A because I came to every class and had 3 finals, wah wah.
I never got the feeling that the OP felt he was entitled to an A, just that he was sad he missed the grade by a very slim margin and he brought up some good points with the prof that swayed the prof's mind. The real world works that way, whether you like it or not. I don't see anything wrong with him trying to get a better grade, as opposed to being a sheep and letting things be. Learn to work the system 🙂
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