<p>I guess I’ll go attempt to talk to him again. Maybe he was having a bad day or something. If he’s still rude and stubborn, I’ll take it up with the administration. What’s the most I can lose? Not much, considering it’s a summer course and not even the uni I attend during the school year.</p>
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<p>You said in the first post that you received 1/2 of the points even though you got the question wrong! You are haggling for more partial credit and that pretty much never ends well. Just give it up.</p>
<p>The question was a two part problem. I got the first part partially wrong, but using that answer I got the second part right. So, naturally I would get half credit.</p>
<p>I think this differs from the usual haggling for grades in the sense that there’s a provable grading inconsistency.</p>
<p>It’s one thing to complain about where the professor set the bar for partial credit, but it’s quite another when there’s a discrepancy between different people on where the bar is set.</p>
<p>It probably won’t end well with the professor, but I think it’s worth bringing up the two papers to make a point. Either your friend is getting points that he shouldn’t have gotten, or you’re not getting points that you earned. It’s a simple matter of keeping the integrity of a grade. I think it’d make an easy case going higher up if it doesn’t work out.</p>
<p>Yet, to be honest, I think there’s one thing missing: how do you and your friend end up making the <em>EXACT</em> same mistakes? I get the feeling that you’re counting significant differences as something insignificant.</p>
<p>Agree with poster above. Unless you have EXACTLY the same answer you have no case. Not really similar, not making the same type of mistake but literally 100% identical answers from start to finish, every step of the way.</p>
<p>^ Like I said, even if the answers weren’t the same, he was very rude.</p>
<p>Be careful… Some are telling you to take both tests up to a higher power assuming they’ll raise your grade up to match your friends.</p>
<p>You only have three possible outcomes.</p>
<p>1) They raise your grade to match your friend’s and you gain the ill will of the prof.
2) They lower your friend’s grade to match yours and you gain the ill will of the prof.
3) They do nothing and you gain the ill will of the prof.</p>
<p>This is a no win position. If you don’t care about the prof’s ill will then you still have a 1 in 3 chance of gaining your friends ill will.</p>
<p>Is it worth the gamble? I’d let it go. </p>
<p>As to being rude… Some people are rude. That’s who they are. You aren’t going to change them. You need to learn to deal with it.</p>