<p>I took my last exam today for my computer technology class and got a 64 which is a d. Here's how the grading is processed</p>
<p>Tests- 40%</p>
<p>Training- 10%</p>
<p>Exam- 25%</p>
<p>Projects 25%</p>
<p>I've done all of the following except for the projects cause I had trouble accessing them sometimes and my pc uses a different word software. other than that I made a c on my last test and 100s on my training assignments. Have I failed the class?</p>
<p>I think you need to take a course in remedial math - you haven’t given us enough info to have a clue.</p>
<p>You didn’t do all the projects because you don’t have the right Word software and you’re asking a bunch of strangers if you failed the class??? You didn’t think to buy the software?</p>
<p>No one can tell on the basis of the information provided. Are you getting 0 points for the 25% Project category? That would hurt because even if you got 100/A in every other category, you’d still have a just a C at best. Right?</p>
<p>Not trying to be cruel, but I would fail you. You couldn’t have talked to the professor about the projects sometime in the last three months? I would try to turn in something for the projects so you can get partial credit. ALWAYS talk to your professor sooner rather than later. This is a good life lesson.</p>
<p>Is this on online class?
Were there any campus based meetings required?
Perhaps you would do better in a class with scheduled meetings, if this one was online.</p>
<p>Allowing for a D at some colleges ( most?) isnt actually a passing grade & a F for your projects, you only did half the work required.
Chalk it up to a life lesson, reenroll for the class and with luck your new grade will cancel the old grade out.
But I also agree you havent given enough info.
Your syllabus should say what the requirements are to do well in the class.
Oftentimes certain projects and exams are required regardless of grades for other work or attendance.</p>
<p>And since my first answer was a bit snarky, here you go with an example of how you would calculate this.</p>
<p>You have 100 points for the entire course. </p>
<p>Tests - let’s say you have taken 1. You got a 75 © .75 x 40 = 30 points.</p>
<p>Training - let’s say you get 100 for training (seems unlikely). 1 x 20 = 20</p>
<p>Exam - one exam you got a 64. .64 x 25 = 16</p>
<p>Projects - let’s say you did half the projects perfectly so you get half the points for projects = .5 x 25 = 12.5</p>
<p>That adds up to 30+20+16+12.5=78.5 If you didn’t do any projects at all you’d have a 66.</p>
<p>It doesn’t look too promising.</p>
<p>mathmom gets a 75% © for her answer.</p>
<p>Training is 10%, not 20.</p>
<p>If you didn’t do any projects (25%), then the highest you could possibly earn in the course is 75%. You get 0 weighted points out of a possible 25 for this section.
Your training assignments (10%) earn you 10 points out of a possible 10. (You really focused on the wrong thing in this class. Learn from that mistake!)
We know you didn’t get 100% on at least one test, but not enough information there. If it was just the one test and you got a C, let’s call that 75%, which is 30 out of a possible 40 points (ie 40% of the grade).
You got a 64 on the exam, which is worth 25%, or 16 weighted points.
0+10+30?+16=56.
Sorry. And hopefully you had other tests that might pull it up to a D or better.</p>
<p>There’s a high probability that you are in trouble–why don’t you go and talk to the prof and see if there’s anything you can do. Seems like a better use of your time then posting on a message board.</p>
<p>oops. Like my kids I can do the math, but I make too many careless mistakes. :D</p>
<p>Now that you’ve lost ten more points, I’d say you were definitely in trouble!</p>
<p>I don’t understand why you didn’t do anything about not having the proper software. My guess is that you will need it in other classes as well in the future. If it was too expensive for you, you could have talked to the professor and he might have had a solution or a suggestion for you. Not to mention that you probably could have used some computers at school that had the software you needed.</p>
<p>It’s the END of the term and you didn’t bother to reconcile your computer software so you could do the projects? Doesn’t your school have computer labs that DO have the correct software? Don’t you know how to use a thumb drive? </p>
<p>Sorry, but this does not look promising for you. </p>
<p>And just for the record…a D isn’t exactly a great grade. And the way I see it, you can’t get higher than a D.</p>
<p>ETA…you were concerned about your grades in March. It doesn’t sound like you were concerned enough to actually DO anything about them, however.</p>
<p>@thumper1 I pass all my other classes with flying colors so I did do something about them. Its just this only class I’m concerned about.</p>
<p>Alex, if you were truly concerned, you would have obtained the software or talked to the professor about an alternative solution if you were unable to afford the software. You KNEW that this was 25% of your grade, and you did nothing about it. The time to “be concerned” was when you first learned that.</p>
<p>Why did you not do anything? </p>
<p>I agree with PG. My son has had to go to the music computer lab to complete all his projects because he doesn’t have the software on his computer. The software costs over $600 and was not in our budget. Access is 24/7 with his student ID and I can’t imagine that it isn’t the same at your school. The time to take action was at the beginning of the semester not the last week of the school year. </p>
<p>What’s even more sad is that this is for a Computer Technology class.</p>
<p>You can see from the OP’s prior posts that there are other challenges.</p>
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<p>Not all computer labs, especially ones with specialized software may be 24/7 depending on the college concerned. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, they are usually open often enough so students would have ample time to do all of their assigned computer work in a given term provided they started early enough to head off any potential technological or scheduling/life snags which may come up. Especially during crunch time of midterms/finals. </p>
<p>By the way the financial aid counselor at my school told me on suspension which means I lose my financial aid cause I failed that one class. Does this means I’ve lost aid for that school only. If I apply to another community college as a freshman and “start over” will I be ineligible?</p>