<p>What can you do if you miss half a letter grade by being .3% short of the next grade?</p>
<p>Presumably nothing? At least in my experience professors don’t just change grades because you were “close” to the next letter grade.</p>
<p>You received the grade you earned.</p>
<p>Just do better next time. Know what you have to do, and then go out there and do it.</p>
<p>Thanks. But I think the grades were all calculated qualitatively, in terms of tests and quizzes, so I don’t think they may have “overlooked” my grade. Judging through past experiences, do you guys think that it may be possible the professor is willing to let me do something extra to boost the grade?</p>
<p>Maybe. Most professors are okay with extra credit as long as you keep up with the work/earnestly try in the course.</p>
<p>OK ignoring all these dumb comments defending the professor, I say you confront your professor about this and show him that he made a big mistake by crossing you like this. </p>
<p>If he doesn’t change the grade after that, then appeal it. Good luck, my friend. Some professors are psychos nowadays and try to give students lower grades than they deserve.</p>
<p>@ DB: stop ■■■■■■■■. Some professors do not round up, so even if you got something like “89.7%”, that’s still an 89% to them, and not a 90%. If his overall grade in the class, based on all his finals and quizzes, was .3% lower than the next grade, then he earned that grade he got, even if it’s .3% lower.</p>
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Professors who do this though are VERY unlikely to give extra credit /after/ they’ve posted the grade.
It’s a pain to have to go in and change grades.</p>
<p>sopranokitty, don’t get big with me.
We all know that an 89.7 should be rounded up to a 90. We all passed 3rd grade. Any professor who doesn’t do that is asking for trouble.</p>
<p>Yeah, DreamingBig is ■■■■■■■■, but I don’t think everybody should be so quick to defend the professor either: you don’t know his situation at all. Some professors really do make classes unnecessarily hard to get good grades in.</p>
<p>Okay, so here’s my situation.
My professor posted everyone’s grade online. I had a 89.1 in the class. This equates to an A-. There were people with 89.4’s with A’s. This really ****ed me off.
So I’m just wondering if there’s anything I can do about it since the grades are already posted, I’m assuming. Should I even bother e-mailing the professor to see if I can somehow do some extra work or something to boost it to an A?</p>
<p>There has to be a cutoff somewhere. If you deserve an A because people .3 above you got an A, then by the same reasoning people that are .3 below you would deserve an A if you got one. And so on. It’s unfortunate, but sometimes that’s just the way it goes.</p>
<p>LOL I got an 89.7% in French 201 at the beginning of this year…missed an A- by 0.3% XD
I asked her whether or not she could bump it up but she didn’t. Eh whatever no big deal.</p>
<p>Alright. I just sent an e-mail asking if there was any extra work I can do to bump up the grade, rather than simply asking for the professor to bump it up. I kinda feel bad though because it makes me feel “spoiled” and wanting special consideration. Like Heaven said, it’s kinda unfair because there are people who were cut off by .1%. Shouldn’t they be more deserving of the A?</p>
<p>You shouldn’t have done it if it was going to make you feel bad.</p>
<p>I don’t think it should make you feel bad-worst that can happen is she says, “No, I cannot do that, sorry.” or something like that.</p>
<p>Next time, appeal the grade. Ask DreamingBig how to do it.</p>
<p>Almost every teacher I had at my community college has told us if its that close and they knew we weren’t messing around, they round it up and chalk it up to being a missed problem somewhere by accident. But they never do this if someone did not show up, did not speak up in class, etc.</p>
<p>But accept if the teacher refuses. It is something the teacher can choose to do. It is not required. Not all teachers have the policies mine have had, and I’ve have classmates who had these kinds of grades. Bottom line, if they have no changed it already, they are not going to. Normally teachers seem to announce this policy at the beginning of term to encourage students.</p>