<p>I am in my last semester of a 2 year MPA program, but am struggling with my emotions of passing a required economics class. I started to take this class last year but was overwhelmed with other classes so I withdrew. Does anyone have any advice or tips on how I can be go about passing this class?
1. I go in for individual help with the professor once a week
2. Has anyone ever heard of someone failing in their last semester? I am still not understanding the whole grading system in graduate school. If I were to get a 60-65 in the class, would that possibly be a C? I always heard that you do not fail graduate students. Is this true? Do you really have to show no motivation to fail a class?</p>
<p>I've only seen one F in a graduate course in my life. The only way you give out a D or an F is if the student really never showed up or never submitted assignments. In most graduate programs, a C is considered failing.</p>
<p>Different programs have different rules about C's - some allow them, some allow a certain number of them, some don't allow any. You'll have to look at your program to see how they're handled.</p>
<p>So, my belief is that A's really A's, while B's and C's get collapsed into B's, and C's are basically F's. Is that right? Hav you found that talking to the professor or going in for extra help can have additional influence on final grades?</p>
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<p>It depends on the professor and how they grade. But I will say that I secretly do "pull for" students I think are working hard (visit office hours, try in class, obviously put a lot of effort into homework assignments, etc). With my grading scheme, it doesn't help them (which is why I grade the way I do), but they do get two distinct advantages: 1) they'll benefit from the additional time they're spending to visit my office and 2) if I know they care, I'm more likely to look where they are personally having trouble, then trying to help them in a way to address their specific issue. In a class with 50 students, I can't teach to everyone's individual level of understanding. If I know your level of understanding (because you've invested time in learning the material, signaling a desire to lean, so I've invested time in learning about your effort), I can teach to that in my office in a 1-on-1 setting. </p>
<p>It can backfire, though. It's pretty easy to sniff out the people that just show up for brownie points.</p>
<p>That is defenitely not my intention of going in simply for brownie points. Do you find that most professors adhere to 70/80/90 grading scale for grades or do they modify?</p>
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<p>Is this a joke? You're in your 4th and last semester of a master's program, but don't understand how grading works? And you're in your last semester but still decided whether to register in a future semester? </p>