I’m one who generally gets good grades, but I took a class and this class in particular required 95% of my time at home causing me stay up until around 3 am each night…but then I got a B. I know it’s not terrible to get a B but in this class that I worked so hard in, it’s really sad.
The grade doesn’t judge effort it judges success in the class. It’s one thing if outside life interferes in the class, but otherwise you generally get the grade you deserve. The trick is to not let it get you down and try and identify where you can improve.
It is disappointing when you spend copious amounts of time on one class and don’t get the grade you think you should get. I always tell myself that “A’s aren’t always going to happen.” In a perfect world, I’d want A’s in all of my classes, but I know that’s not going to happen. I just have to expect that I may get a B here and there. All you can do is try.
well yes, but im pretty sure all of us have gotten As when we deserved B for example…
What really disappoints me is when I work hard and get an A in a tough course but neglect an easier course and get a B when I should’ve easily gotten an A.
I’ve gotten about 10 A’s that I had no business receiving.
Very disappointed
@hungryteenager, you really aren’t funny. But actually, I got a B- in Finance in college when I was certain I was going to get a C. It does go both ways. I notice no one ever complains when they get a generous break in grading.
@intparent I’m currently with a crazy family member for new years. I’m normally a bit more on point, kind of need some sort of distraction.
Agree, things go both ways. Keep working hard and move on.
It happens.
Senior year of high school I was pretty depressed and I got terrible grades in all my courses, BUT I got great grades on the tests. For example in one class I got above 85% on all the tests and 96% on the final, and then I got a D in the class because I hadn’t done the HW. I asked the teacher if he was willing to give me a 70% (C-) so I could receive a passing grade and he said no because I’d disrespected him by not doing the homework regardless of what my familial situation was like. Luckily it was an elective so I didn’t have to do summer study for it but it was still really disappointing.
Sometimes, regardless of our efforts, we just can’t make the grade so to speak. According to your teacher you did B work. You may have made an A in effort but that is life. Keep working hard. You sound like you’re smart so you will probably be fine in the future. Good luck.
Be thankful that you had a demanding professor who didn’t just give out A’s like candy. Because that’s what most of them tend to do these days.
I’ve taken a couple of graduate courses and received A’s that I genuinely believe I didn’t deserve for one reason or another. I know that graduate courses have truncated grading scales a lot of the time, but I still think my skill set fell far below that of my peers (all of whom were grad students specializing in that particular field).
Just this past semester. Got a C+ in Calculus. I was pretty disappointed because I really put in a ton of effort and felt I should have come out with at least a B-, even if it was my hardest class. I did well on the final, better than any of my four other previous tests in that class, but obviously not well enough to bump it up to where I wanted. So that sucked. Also got a lower-than-anticipated B in French 102 (the prof TOLD ME I had a B+ going into the final) and a B+ in PoliSci despite a 90 on the final which had put me SO agonizingly close to an A-.
But I also got a solid B in Macroeconomics, when I felt I was going to only get a B- max even with all the extra credit I did. I studied really hard for the final but was unsure of exactly how well I did. While I’ll probably never know for sure (the final exam grade was never posted), I’m assuming that either the EC really helped, or he curved that final pretty heavy.
So it does go both ways indeed.
What aggravates me is this not so new trend to “group” projects with no truly defined piece for each person. It is “Ya’ll figure it out” it is always 1-2 always doing the brunt of the work busting their butt to get a B because the 1-2 slackers dont know the material well.
The teacher will say “You need to work as a team”.
Screw that “I” did my work and owned it because idiot person is a lazy procrastinator I shouldnt be punished.
My daughters words for one of her “loves group” projects teachers.
@Undecided3494 The feels. That totally happened to me this semester. I got an A in my hardest class this semester, but let my grades slip and got B’s in subjects that could easily have been A’s. Cie la vie, that is life.
When you start working, you will discover that a company, while it can appreciate how hard you work, will still expect a result. If you don’t produce it, you will be graded downward. If you produce it, you will still be graded against your peers, so even if you work hard and produce results, someone who had something great fall into their lap may still get the A.
It’s a part of life. Get used to it. But don’t let it impact your daily life or your view of yourself:)
College professor here, to say two things:
[ul][]As others have mentioned, aside from a very few courses that are intentionally set up that way, grades measure outcome and not effort. I teach a subject (linguistics) that a lot of people find quite difficult, and students do sometimes complain about the amount of effort they put into a course only to get a grade lower than they thought their effort merited. As like I tell them, though, not only can I not actually tell how much effort they expended, ultimately one demonstrates whether one knows (to take a simple example) that the s and z sounds are identical except for the state of the vocal folds, or one does not. If that’s what’s being assessed, I don’t care how hard or easy it was to learn it, I just want to know whether you learned it.
[]Don’t simply expect grades of A (or even B) to just happen. As are designated as a reward for excellent work, and Bs are designated as a reward for quite good work. Not everyone does excellent or even quite good work in everything. Yeah, I know, grade inflation is a reality, but even so we haven’t gotten to the point where students regularly get high grades for simply showing up.[/ul]
Hard truths, but still truths.
@preamble1776 are you an undergraduate? I’ve taken a few grad courses where we have an occasional upper level undergrad. They are NOT held to the same standards as the grad students so a graduate producing your level of work probably wouldn’t receive the same grade you did.
I’ve probably gotten several grades both ways that I didn’t deserve- especially in grad school. However, I’m still mildly bitter about a 3.0 (my undergrad graded on a scale like this: 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, etc) I received my freshmen year. I’m bitter because the professor’s criticism of my work was simply not fair and I maintain that to this day. The college eventually moved her into an administrative role because her courses had such low enrollment that they had to routinely be cancelled. No one wanted to take a class with her.
I probably received other 3.0s but they were probably deserved lol.
You are not graded on effort. You are graded on product.
@romanigypsyeyes - Yeah, I figured that. I was a first semester sophomore at the time. It was a course outside of my major (I’m a Pol Sci major and the course was an English seminar in my University’s English MA program) so I was still a little surprised. There were a couple of other undergrads but they were all upper level English majors.