<p>Hi everyone, I have a quick question. I have a 77.8 in my Spanish class which is a C+. The teacher gave a two point curve which puts me at a 79.8. An 80 is a B-. She still gave me a C+ though and when I asked her she said she doesn't round before adding the curve. If she puts me at a 79, this means she only gave me a 1.2 point curve and not a 2 point curve. I emailed her nicely and asked her why I didn't get a B- and she said if I asked again she would undo the curve on my grade. Is there anyone I cant contact about this? I think I deserve the 1/5 point to make it a B-. Thanks!</p>
<p>you think you deserve a B- but you didn’t actually meet the academic standard to get it.</p>
<p>The cutoff is 80. Not 79.8. You didn’t make it. That’s too bad.
I’ve been in this position before, and I know how hard it is to accept it, but I didn’t complain or email my professors about it.</p>
<p>So what you are saying is, the professors are not required to round the grades either up or down? They can just truncate anything after the decimal and make that your grade?</p>
<p>She’s neither truncating nor rounding. The cutoff was an 80.0, you got a 79.8. A grade is defined over the set of reals, not just integers. There is no need to round. Since grade cutoffs are usually integers, this is indistinguishable from truncating your grade, but I think the philosophy is different.</p>
<p>Teachers have a great deal of flexabiltiy as to how they grade people . So teachers will set the C at 60% , some teachers will make insanely hard test and just say “Top 30% in this class get A’s and B’s”
You can’t argue this as its all up to the teacher . </p>
<p>No , the teacher doesn’t have to round anything up or down . When you think about it a 2% bonus is a pretty good deal . Thats basically your rounding up to the next grade right their, so students with 68% get C’s but a student with a 67.7 will get a D .</p>
<p>Most teachers will round, but the fact is - you did not get the required grade for a B- and therefore you do not get the B-. Simple as that.</p>
<p>You had a 77.8. Your teacher gave you 2 percent extra credit and you still **<strong><em>. You’re probably the kind of kid who would get a blue mustang and then cry because it wasn’t red, holy *</em></strong>…</p>
<p>Professors aren’t “required” to do anything. A 2 point curve would put you at a 79.8, which still is not a B-. Not all professors round. It sucks, and I’m sure most of us have been in a similar position, but it’s not worth freaking out over. Move on and try and do better in your future classes.</p>
<p>Like everyone is saying, your professor doesn’t HAVE to do anything. I think she was being quite nice in the first place. Get over it and study harder next time. One C isn’t that bad anyway.</p>
<p>Oh hells no.</p>
<p>She threatened you with an e-mail saying that she’ll remove the curve?
Oh screw that. If she threatened me like that I’d be right at her office door five minutes after the e-mail was sent telling her in a confrontational voice “What’d you say?” </p>
<p>Don’t know why she lost her cool like that. You were just asking a question.</p>
<p>Some professors round, some don’t. It kind of sucks to come so close, but you didn’t make the cutoff.</p>
<p>Btw, see DreamingBig’s thread on how not to act in this situation.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>This is what the Self-Esteem Movement has wrought in our young people.</p>
<p>Newsflash, kamran619: You earned a C+. Your teacher gave you a gift by grading on a curve, but it wasn’t enough to make up for your C+ level work. That’s called “life.” And if you don’t adjust your attitude, in a few years you’ll be like the 20-somethings I work with, who show up late, check Facebook and their e-mail every 10 minutes, never volunteer to take on extra tasks, and then whine when they don’t get a raise.</p>
<p>You don’t “deserve” the extra half-point…you don’t even deserve the 1.2 points you got. You deserve the C+ your work (or lack thereof) earned you. If it makes you feel any better, the minute you graduate from college, no one will ever care again what your grade in Spanish was…</p>
<p>A little strange for someone with the username LaidBackMom61 to have her first post be a diatribe on a thread in the college life forum on a thread that had died, but good post nonetheless…</p>