need a place to vent

[Eomer of Aldburg]

Are there teachers that grade you harder then other students? In my senior hounor government class my papers and projects are always lower then that of others. For example my essay I wrote on copyrights was flawless but he gave me a 90 / 100 for dumb minor things like a 2 paragraph intro, my ap English teacher allows us to do this. My presentation on copyrights was significantly lower then others for more pointles reasons. I'm just really fruastrated, I can't get an A.

 

[yllus]

There's an extremely simple solution to this. Go up to your teacher after class and ask, "I'd like to find out how I can improve my work so I can get an A. Could you tell me what you're looking for?" That'll force the teacher to spell out how you can earn that grade, and upon doing so he will have no room to not give you it.

 

[mobobuff]

Well, do you confuse the words "than" and "then" in your papers?

 

[Anubis]

90/100 is an "A" everywhere i went to school :/

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Well, in my college classes, the teachers have a outline of what they are looking for when they grade your paper. That way they take out as much subjectivity out and have criteria to grade you by.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Anubis
90/100 is an "A" everywhere i went to school :/

When I was in high school, you needed a 92. Sounds like this guy is in high school, not college.

 

[slsmnaz]

Sounds like you haven't even talked to the teacher (which should be your 1st step). And just because 1 teacher allows a certain style doesn't mean another will do the same. In my job I have to write things in many different ways depending on my audience.

 

[Drakkon]

If it is blatant - as in your and your friend's paper have the same mistakes, yet the ones on your paper are marked off while your friends are not - take it to your professor and ask what is up.

 

[BrownTown]

Maybe your just not that smart and/or just don't have the same writing style he prefers? I for one would never write a 2 paragraph introduction for a high school paper.

 

[lightweight]

You should schedule an appointment with your guidance counselor. He/she would probably love to hear you vent.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Eomer of Aldburg
Are there teachers that grade you harder then other students? In my senior hounor government class my papers and projects are always lower then that of others. For example my essay I wrote on copyrights was flawless but he gave me a 90 / 100 for dumb minor things like a 2 paragraph intro, my ap English teacher allows us to do this. My presentation on copyrights was significantly lower then others for more pointles reasons. I'm just really fruastrated, I can't get an A.

Right in this paragraph I can see errors that a senior in HS shouldn't be making.

Like others have said, talk to your teacher about your concerns. Don't go into it being accusatory, but ask him/her how you can improve and get a better grade.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Anubis
90/100 is an "A" everywhere i went to school :/

When I was in high school, you needed a 92. Sounds like this guy is in high school, not college.

I've never heard of HS requiring 92 for an A. Is this part of grade inflation? I had one prof in college do that, but the course was easy so no biggie.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Well, do you confuse the words "than" and "then" in your papers?

LOL!!!

edit: and the OP is quite confusing. you are asking if there are teachers that grade students differently, but what you are really asking is if different teachers grade differently, which obviously is the case.

 

[ElFenix]

deal with it. a friend of mine was marked down after the teacher accused him of saying 'fuck' in a re-enactment of a scene from a book we'd been reading. he actually said 'fudge.' what was really retarded about it was that it was 'fuck' in the book.

 

[gophins72]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Like others have said, talk to your teacher about your concerns. Don't go into it being accusatory, but ask him/her how you can improve and get a better grade.

this is very good advice.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Anubis
90/100 is an "A" everywhere i went to school :/

When I was in high school, you needed a 92. Sounds like this guy is in high school, not college.

I've never heard of HS requiring 92 for an A. Is this part of grade inflation? I had one prof in college do that, but the course was easy so no biggie.

I don't know, but it was always that way for me, as early as Jr High, which started probably 96, so it wouldn't be THAT new of a trend.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Anubis
90/100 is an "A" everywhere i went to school :/

When I was in high school, you needed a 92. Sounds like this guy is in high school, not college.

I've never heard of HS requiring 92 for an A. Is this part of grade inflation? I had one prof in college do that, but the course was easy so no biggie.

I don't know, but it was always that way for me, as early as Jr High, which started probably 96, so it wouldn't be THAT new of a trend.

Well, I'm a geezer who graduated hs in '90 so it's all new to me.

 

[se7en]

If your essay was flawless it would have gotten a 100 right? Obviously it wasn't so what steps have you taken along the course to improve your writing?

And you may consider certain things "dumb" or "pointless" but thats why you are still a student and not the teacher. Look at yourself before you try to blame someone else for something you wrote.

Accountability.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Than = a comparison. "His grade was better than mine."
Then = indicative of time or sequence. "I went to ATOT for advice, then I decided to speak with my teacher."

My advice? Speak with your teacher and ask what you need to do to get an A. After that, invest in a grammar handbook and use it.

 

[ViviTheMage]

90% = A in my old high school

 

[CPA]

ahhhhh, what I'd give to be 18 again.

Just wait until your real first job and you get a lower raise than someone else.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

C'est la vie. That's why getting an A involves 3 things - skill, preparation and luck. A good student will always have skill and preparation covered and so will never do that badly, but it takes at least a dash of luck to pull it off, especially for a straight college 4.0

 

[AMCRambler]

Haha. This happened in my Social Studies class in high school. Had this real *itch of a teacher who would mark your answers wrong if the wording even slightly deviated from what she wrote verbatim on the board. Your answer would be correct but it would get marked wrong. Then she would go over the homework in clase and write out the answers on the board and you had to copy them down verbatim and re-submit your homework otherwise you would get incompletes and fail. Alright, so whoop dee doo you just doing a crappy job on the HW and when she writes the answers down in class you get your credit then.
Well we had started to notice certain teachers pets in the class were getting all their answers marked correct. One of the kids getting incompletes borrowed his friend's homework, the teachers pet, and copied half of his answers off it and handed it in. Blatant plagiarism yes, but he did to test a theory. Sure enough, the graded homeworks came back and the kid who copied had several marked wrong that were marked correct on the teachers pet's homework. He got really pissed and called her on it in front of the whole class. It was total ownage and she knew it. Sent him to the principal for copying homework. I doubt she even got so much as a reprimand. Tenured teachers FTL!

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Anubis
90/100 is an "A" everywhere i went to school :/

When I was in high school, you needed a 92. Sounds like this guy is in high school, not college.

I've never heard of HS requiring 92 for an A. Is this part of grade inflation? I had one prof in college do that, but the course was easy so no biggie.

that's the opposite of grade inflation

 

[AmpedSilence]

93 was an A in my HS

depending on the course, an "A" varies in college.