<p>Anyone ever gotten an 82% in a class and gotten a "C"? I've always thought that the scale was 90-100 A, 80-89, B. Unless stated otherwise. Is it legit for a professor to not list the grading scale or how the curve will be derived in the syllabus? I've never seen a case where 82% was not a B.</p>
<p>82% in some schools is a B- which is weighted as a C</p>
<p>According to the professor you needed an to have 121 points out of 140 for a B, which equates to roughly 86% thats absurd. Do I have any type of legit arguement for an appeal, he didn't publish the grade distributions so you had no idea how you'd be graded; why should one be penalized for enrolling in an classes that happen to be populated by all engineers and they drove the average upward, during the spring a 75% was required for a B. I feel that the curve should have been based on spring semester that way your standing is out of 600 or so students rather than 47.</p>
<p>well, i needed a 96 to get an A in a class once, but I don't remember what that prof's cutoff was a for a B</p>
<p>Check your course outline as grade policies usually are explained there.
In some colleges, below 85 is a C.</p>
<p>Welcome to college, where many classes are graded on a curve.</p>
<p>in engineering sometimes a 10% would be an A+</p>
<p>I've had classes where a 82% would've been considered a C+, but we were usually made aware ahead of time about that because the grading scale was listed in the syllabus.
In one class, a 93.9% would've been considered a B+. Yet another teacher in the same school considered anything at 90% or above a full A.</p>
<p>I'm a junior. Likewise, I've never seen this be the case ever. 80% always a B unless clearly stated in the syllabus. He had nothing about the grading policy in the syllabus. except what each quiz and test was worth, nothing about a curve or a scale; until after the course was completed.</p>
<p>My daughter's nursing school considers a 77 to be an F. Pretty harsh. They have to get more than 93 to get an A.</p>
<p>There was nothing stated, in the syllabus. Though. You can't just say oops the class did to well..I can't give out that many B's so I gotta up the scale. Unless you specify the percentages of each grade that you're allowed to give out. Like I'm allowed to give out 25% A's max, 35% B's max etc; In the syllabus.</p>
<p>This is exactly why I'm afraid to go to an ultra-competitive school.</p>
<p>^That's some serious grade inflation if 77 is an F. </p>
<p>My school has a standard system that applies to every course. The one thing that can change is the way your prof curves depending on the average they want or require for a certain class. For instance, my econ prof scaled so that the average was at a C level, while my political science profs scaled to a B-/B. This sometimes works as a disadvantage as some profs or departments will scale you down. </p>
<p>We go:
Percentage (%) Letter Grade<br>
90-100 A+<br>
85-89 A<br>
80-84 A-<br>
76-79 B+<br>
72-75 B<br>
68-71 B-<br>
64-67 C+<br>
60-63 C<br>
55-59 C-<br>
50-54 D<br>
0-49 F (Fail)<br>
(from the school calendar website)</p>
<p>My school actually has a relatively normal standard deviation of grades, at least in the lower year classes that I've taken. It's definetly not super easy to get an A, which I think is a good thing.</p>
<p>This is an econ class. But I wouldn't say Purdue as a whole is ultracompetitive, just the engineering, and management, and pharm majors.</p>
<p>How can with an 82% you rank 41 out of 51 students, thats alone lets you know the class was an anamoly, and students should be compared to a larger class size.</p>
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You can't just say oops the class did to well..I can't give out that many B's so I gotta up the scale.
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Actually, you can, especially if there are departmental /college rules that stipulate what percentage of students can earn certain grades. Look, grades are up to the professor to determine and in college they seem to be all over the place. Last fall, I got an A+ in a class I never went to nor did any work for but a B- for the class that took the most time ever (and that was a 1-credit class!). Grading isn't always going to be "fair" (at least to you), but there's probably a legitimate reason the professor gave you the grade you got. If you really have a problem with it, go talk to the professor when school starts up again and ask him why you got what you got; who knows, he may have just made a calculation error or something.</p>
<p>I've had some classes where that would be a "B," yes. I've had others where it would be a "C+" and still others where it would be a "B-." My college practices almost complete academic freedom with grading, so each professor is totally different, other than no one giving out the "A+" on anything.</p>
<p>I have a couple grades where I know they would've been higher with any other professor, but I've also learned how to just move on and not stress over it. It stinks, sure, but it doesn't sting for long unless you let it.</p>
<p>Edit: And, since people were talking about what constitutes an "A" at their respective institutions, I've had courses where it was from 96 and up to 87 and up, with just about everything in between. You adapt pretty quickly to the inconsistency. If it's not on the syllabus, I just ask early on.</p>
<p>In my chemistry class last year 82% was an A-, and 85% was an A- the second semester of chemisty. Although the % was low for an A-, I only knew a few people who got A's.</p>
<p>i had an 82.5 in math and got a B-.</p>
<p>You have to post how grades will be determined in the syllabus, thats just a students right.</p>