<p>I'm kind of scared to do it because I'm afraid they might yell at me or something, lol. I've seen people do it before and teachers usually don't like it. I have an 88 in AP Bio but in that class if you get an 89 one quarter he will give you an A. He has his own point system, and I have 510/578. 512 would get me an 89. Do you think I should ask him about it? I did work really hard but he does curve tests and is pretty generous already so I feel like it would bother him to ask. However, if I get a B this quarter I'm gonna end up with a B in the class :(</p>
<p>definitely ask. last year i got an 89.41(i think) in us history 1 honors. i asked my teacher if she could bump me up to an A(which is an 89.45) and she did. but my teacher was nice and she liked me, i’m not sure about your bio teacher.</p>
<p>I mean I’m not super close with him but I think he likes me… he always comments to me that I’m a really good, nice person. Lol</p>
<p>You should definitely ask, but don’t think of it as “confronting” him. Just approach him and ask him about it. Have a couple of good reasons prepared for why you think you deserve to be bumped up to an A. If you’ve worked hard in his class, I’m sure he will oblige.</p>
<p>Yup, ask him. Lead by offering to do extra credit.</p>
<p>I don’t really see why he should give you points for no reason, but there’s no harm in asking.</p>
<p>Yeah, what halcyon said.</p>
<p>If he does: Great! 
If not: Nobody to blame but you</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>I recommend what sosmenza said. Show that you’re willing to work for those points; don’t act like you deserved them. If you DO think you got shafted on a particular assignment or project just ask him/her about that thing and mention how close you are to your target grade.</p>
<p>You need a 515 to break 89%, actually. 512/578 is 88.5%.</p>
<p>Anyways, there’s no harm in asking. Just don’t be pushy about it, or it might come to negatively impact your future grades in that class.</p>
<p>^
88.5 might round up. (Like at my school an A is 94-100, but they’ll round up a 93.5).</p>
<p>But that would mean rounding to 89, and then rounding to 90 from there.</p>
<p>There is no way to get extra credit, they put grades in on Friday and he never gives extra credit. I don’t think I should ask him, even though I am close I feel like it is kind of pushing it… I don’t really deserve an A for getting an 88 anyway :l</p>
<p>Has he said anything definite about not liking when students ask for this kind of stuff? If so, then don’t pester him. Also, don’t bother if your homework/classwork grades aren’t near perfect. You need to be able to point to something to show him the work you’ve been putting in. But really, it doesn’t hurt to try, and if you ask without any sense of entitlement, your teacher probably won’t get irreparably mad.</p>
<p>I feel your pain; I once got 89.7% in a college class that rounded grades down.</p>
<p>On the other hand, a few semesters later, I enrolled in night and afternoon classes (full-time student) while continuing my summer job full-time into the school year. I told my computer science professor about my job when he asked where I’d acquired the experience I’d mentioned in the class questionnaire. I soon started a sabbatical from work in order to focus on school. I think the professor was under the impression that I was still working because he bumped my 89% up to a 90% without me asking. I didn’t ask why, but he commented that it was because he knew I was busy. lol</p>
<p>Anyways, some possible ways to squeeze more points out of a class:
[ul][<em>]Go through past exams and assignments and look for partial credit opportunities where you might have deserved more points for work you showed.
[</em>]If you skipped any work, just submit it late and ask for deductions rather than 0s for lateness unless the teacher has some set-in-stone rule about that in the syllabus.
[*]Offer to… no, nevermind.[/ul]</p>
<p>Well thanks for all the advice guys but there is pretty much nothing I can do about it. No extra credit or partial credit or anything so I will stick with a B and hopefully get over it lol.</p>