Acknowledge the disappointment and move on. You didn’t earn an A or B this one time. Big deal. It’s exhausting to perform perfectly 100% of the time. Cut yourself a break and then work even harder fourth quarter.
That’s strange that you need to have an 83 to earn a B, usually it’s just 80. The most you could do is ask your teacher about rounding it, but if that doesn’t work it’s no big deal. Since it’s so close to a B you could probably bring it up next quarter easily.
Once upon a time 95-100 was A, 88-94 B, and 80-88 C. Grading scales change over time and vary by school district. I was ecstatic the first time I hit a 10 pt grading scale.
I have to disagree with the idea that there is no harm in asking. Sure there is. There is harm to the student and harm to the teacher.
The harm to the student is all about loss of integrity and asking for something not earned. This is called “grade grubbing” and it is a lousy thing to do. There is no need to make the teacher aware that the grade is almost anything. If it isn’t…then it isn’t. Almost does not cut it.
Grades should not be based on student requests or which student looks like he or she wants it really badly. If the teacher changes a grade for one student, it is only fair that the teacher boost up any other student as close to the next grade as this one is-so every letter grade would require a change of the numerical minimum. And that means that the grading criteria has changed at the end of the class-which is not fair to students who may have shorted other classes in order to work harder on this one-only to find it would have been unnecessary now that the criteria for each grade is now lower.
And grade grubbing is harmful to teachers because they are exposed to this class after class and year after year which can make them lose respect for students.
If the teacher thinks you earned a higher grade, the teacher will award you the higher grade. The teacher can obviously see what your numerical grade is. Grading is up to the teacher. Grade grubbing is nasty.
You need to earn your place on honor roll not beg to be on it. Maybe your grades will improve even more next semester, at which point you’d have earned your place on the list.
@lostaccount ^^^ I agree. If you get a grade bump it’ll be as if you can get higher grades by cozying up to the teacher. I think the message you should take from this experience is that you improved, but you didn’t improve enough. You’ve seen that you can get better and if you keep it up you’ll be able to get the grade you’ve wanted.
And tbh, honor role is just a paper. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not a huge deal. It’s more important to keep improving and learning and if you’re doing this, you’re more than fine.
Unfortunately, I don’t think you can do anything about it. I don’t suggest asking for a grade boost, and sometimes, things like this just happen. (For example, a 87 is a B+. Most teachers at my school round, but my chem teacher doesn’t even though I finished the semester with a 86.9, I ended up with a B)
I recently took a computer architecture course (with fairly transparent grading) and was a mere 0.7% away from getting an A in the course. I could have attempted grade-grubbing, but didn’t for two reasons:
*Not fair to the rest of the students in the course
*Pretty sure I didn’t deserve the A anyway due to a poor test score/understanding of a couple topics
To reiterate, accept the grade you got and don’t get in an “emotional wreck,” simply because it’s not worth getting in any wreck over.
I never heard of asking for a grade bump until I got on CC. People here just accept their grade and move on, no matter the amount of tears that were shed.
Nothing to lose except the respect of your teacher! I don’t understand why anyone asks for higher grades. You were required to meet a certain standard of achievement and didn’t quite make it. Case closed.
Recently, I asked my statistics teacher for a bump from a 89 to a 90, and he bumped me. The only reason I asked was because I had a group project where I did most of the work, but my partners lied to me by saying that they did their work when they really didn’t. In my opinion, you should ask for bump IF you have a real reason to.
In my opinion, a teacher wouldn’t lose respect for the student if the student was a hard worker throughout the year. So only ask for a bump if you were a good student :).