<p>Have any of you ever been in a situation where your friend receives more points than you on a test even though you both put the same answer down? I went to talk to my professor about it lightly not wanting to bring my friend into the discussion. I asked him why he had taken so many points off for the problem. I had received a 10/20 while my friend had received a 18/20 for the exact same problem worked the same way. I know it's not in good taste to approach a teacher based on comparing grades, but these points would really impact my overall grade positively bringing me up to an A. I attempted to talk to him just breaching the subject asking him if he could go over the problem with me. He told me to stop whining and to take a self-respect pill, which really bothered me. I'm not sure how to go about this. Should I bother talking to him again or just let it go?</p>
<p>Report him. Show both papers as proof and tell whoever responsible how he treated you.</p>
<p>I suppose I should. He’s just really unapproachable to talk to. Would I have to file some sort of a complaint? I’m not sure it’d be in good taste for me to bring my friend’s paper to the professor.</p>
<p>Don’t do that. Yeah it sucks. Life isn’t fair. Get over it.</p>
<p>Everyone here has had a class or a test where that happened to them. It’s probably happened multiple times to everyone else. Yeah it sucks, but you need to just deal with it.</p>
<p>As for the prof being rude which you might be more angry about, I don’t think you can do anything about it.</p>
<p>Eh, I’ll just do better on the next test, and just move on out of his class. I’m only going to have him this summer, so it’s best not to cause troubles, I suppose. Thanks. I’m really glad that you gave me a spot on honest reply. You’re right. Life isn’t fair. I think I will just suck it up. C’est la vie.</p>
<p>I am upset about it, but it happens. I mean, I’m sure the Dean would support the professor. You know college systems and politics.</p>
<p>It’s physics. My answer wasn’t completely right, which is why it’s difficult for me to speak to him about it. However, me and my friend had both made the exact same mistakes. She just ended up getting lucky and getting partial credit while I got screwed over.</p>
<p>If you suck it up, that just proves that you’re going to live as a weakling for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>Just because life is unfair, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to improve it.</p>
<p>I see what you both are saying, and I guess there’s no harm in trying.</p>
<p>It’s not like you’re going to get expelled for trying.</p>
<p>What happened to you was biased and rude, and frankly, he probably shouldn’t have his job anymore. What if he does this to someone else?</p>
<p>It might also be useful to ask your friend for help. What’s really bad about what he did is how rude he was, even if he wasn’t biased.</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re right. I just didn’t want to cause any unnecessary problems.</p>
<p>If you really don’t want to go through all that trouble, then don’t bother. Don’t feel like we’re forcing you.</p>
<p>If I were you though, I just wouldn’t take his crap. It’s despicable.</p>
<p>No, I want my points back! I just don’t want to irritate him and get on his bad side. @_@ but I guess not speaking up would only reinforce his behavior.</p>
<p>If you file a complaint, would you even be the one talking to him?</p>
<p>You people are not being realistic. It would be one thing if he had the answer right and the prof didn’t give him points. That’s not it. He thinks he deserves more partial credit. Maybe he does, but the prof is under no obligation to give it to him. The prof is not required to be polite either.</p>
<p>I promise you if you complain it will backfire.</p>
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<p>Um, so what? Just because he’s “not required” to do something doesn’t make it okay, in fact, it’s people like you that enable these actions.</p>
<p>“he deserves more partial credit”
That would be valid if I got any partial credit to begin with.</p>
<p>That happened to me before and it sucks!</p>
<p>Back in junior year of HS my friend and I had an assignment to write an essay and also do a creative project piece about a book we read in Comp. We talked about ideas back and forth by chat trying to brainstorm together on this essay (It was an individual assignment, not group work). Then after we had our brainstorming discussion we both went our seperate ways to write our writing pieces. Later we read each others for editing and they were VERY similar!</p>
<p>When I received my grade back I got a D for my essay and painting while she got an A for her essay and poem. (I worked hard on that painting too and it took me hours :() I was SO annoyed and mad … It wasn’t fair. I honestly think that teacher never liked me.</p>
<p>Did you see any other papers to see if they got partial credit? It could have been a mistake in that the professor accidentally gave points to your friend, in which case showing your friend’s paper could be detrimental to him.</p>
<p>Whats all this talk about it happens and that you should suck it up? That’s ridiculous. It only happens when a teacher is unfair and a student refuses to do anything about it. The teacher was also rude when he didn’t have to be. Professors have no right to be rude to students. You’re paying to take his class and you deserve the same respect that he does. I’d say get both papers and report him, especially if it’ll make a difference in your grade. If you really don’t want to that’s your choice, but you are well within your rights to.</p>