<p>I recently got back a grade, with notes, on a paper I wrote for a science (I'd rather not be too specific). </p>
<p>I'm very dissatisfied with the grade, for one it brings down my average but most importantly I don't believe it to be fair. I've heard stories about the teacher in question being an unfair grader because he doesn't believe that students can be good enough to get an A. That is if a student would get an A he would minus irrelevant things more heavily to bring the grade down. Until recently I hadn't experienced this for myself. </p>
<p>I was expected to include a certain feature in a graph that was included in the report. But because I use Pages but had to save the report in Word format, the feature disappeared. I was minused for that and then he went on to minus me where I had referenced the "missing feature" even though that would rather obviously demonstrate that I had indeed included it. I had been told that my using Pages wouldn't be a problem as long as I saved in Word format, especially considering that I had already bought the rather pricy application before being told that Word was preferred. </p>
<p>He also gave very strange reasons for some minuses, where his minus contradicted what I had written, so to make no sense at all. </p>
<p>On my last test there were also strange comments made. That is I wrote the answer he said was correct but was still minused for it. I asked him about, he said he would look at it again, then returned it to me with an answer that contradicted what he himself had said! He also ignored the multiple choice question he had marked as wrong when it very clearly wasn't. </p>
<p>I don't want to compromise my position in the class for the coming semester but I think this is entirely unprofessional and unacceptable. </p>
<p>I'd very much appreciate some tips on how to approach the situation.</p>