<p>I was just wondering if anyone knew where the A-/B+ B-/C+ cutoffs were...based on the percentages you had before your grade was posted on bearfacts.</p>
<p>I had an 84% and I got an A-. (That’s including the 20 bonus points)</p>
<p>I don’t really know what happened with my grade, since based on the points, I should have gotten a C+, or a B- at most. </p>
<p>I ended up with a 72% in the exam grade, which would have been a B- uncurved. Something happened with my non-exam points, and they ended up at 78% - meaning that 20 points or so would have been deducted from my final grade. So without the curve, I should have gotten a C+.</p>
<p>But Bearfacts says I have a B. Either the curve was very, very generous, my GSI made a mistake, or Bspace lied to me.</p>
<p>hmm im guessing they were pretty generous with the curve, considering a lot of people’s grades shot down with the whole nonexam<80% rule, comparing our grades to previous semesters. as for your nonexam i bet bonus points helped. </p>
<p>I wonder if they will post an official curve…</p>
<p>based on what i have heard the curve is about the same as last year’s, except that last year your grade wasn’t solely based on exams.</p>
<p>I think they were pretty generous o_o</p>
<p>idk what last year’s curve was, but it definitely wasn’t the curve on the syllabus, since that said grades > 87% were A-.</p>
<p>82% for exam score and I’m guessing they threw the 6 Bonus points for GSI evals somewhere. Got an A- in the end.</p>
<p>wait, I got 76% exam and 89% non exam and got a B. If someone got 82% and got an A-, wouldn’t you think that I should get a B+?</p>
<p>chem 1a grading is such bs. i’ve heard the wildest stories so I don’t know whether the kids are bs’ing or the professors. I know for sure I had an 86% (asked my gsi) and I ended with a B last year. (Although I had a 92% before the final…grr)</p>
<p>yea you should have had a b+…unless there was way too many people in betweeen (people with >76 and <82) so the natural curve made yours a B…yea the grading is weird. but it seems like there was a huge range for A-. who got As? haha</p>
<p>I got an A. 91%</p>
<p>sllamas1,</p>
<p>I got a B+ I had 74 in exam and 94 on nonexam.</p>
<p>I heard that your GSI gets to decide which sign you get on your letter grade. My GSI loved me.</p>
<p>Thanks Clear my mind and gilmorelove4life, I’ll shoot my GSI an email.</p>
<p>Maybe it was because I sometimes slept in lab? Didn’t think the GSI really got to decide by that much of a factor.</p>
<p>yea i wouldnt think the GSI gets to decide I thought there’s a strict scale they decide on after looking at everyone’s percentages. Well yea you can definitely argue that it’s not fair to be GPA-penalized…i only thought they can not give you the 20pts in nonexam for not performing well in lab…not control the +/-</p>
<p>In many courses, the GSIs have a say when your grade is borderline, e.g., A-/A or B+/A-</p>
<p>For most GSIs, it’s not how well you perform in lab, it’s about quality of your work - how prepared you are for lab, do you do prelabs, are the lab writeups you submit well-written and not done last minute with many typos/errors. It’s meant to help, not hurt you. This was definitely case for Bio 1A/1AL.</p>
<p>You slept in labs? I wouldn’t be a happy GSI if I saw that quite honestly. Did you try to communicate with your GSI regularly? It might be too late now but just keep your head up next semester. It isn’t that big of a deal when you get more grades.</p>