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Internet user here. We do better by quoting V for Vendetta.</p>
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Directly: none at all. I have never given someone points they did not deserve based on answers they have written.</p>
<p>Indirectly: a reasonable amount. I’ll like you if you’re sincerely trying. If you come up to me and ask for help, I will help you. By that I mean I’ll take the extra three minutes to explain some concept to you, or find additional resources/exam question/whatever for you. This will improve your grade. On the other hand if you’re the ****** who constantly checks your phone in class, I’m less likely to reply to your email at 10pm the night before an exam. So it’s less about liking somebody than helping those that I think warrant it.</p>
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Not just because I could. Although I have never “tweaked” grades I enter on CTools, I have suggested professors bump somebody up a grade. Exams are not a perfect measure of intelligence/effort/etc. Sometimes people bomb exams for random reasons. I know that, you know that, and the prof knows that. It’s reasonably common that a professor asks if anyone deserves jumping from, say, a B- to a B. I’m going to be far more sympathetic to the hard-worker than someone who spent discussion section on Facebook.</p>