<p>I have a 92.6% in a class. That should round to a 93% which is an A by university standards. According to my professor's syllabus, though, 926/1000 points is an A-. </p>
<p>Does she enter in my percentage or does she enter in the letter into wherever it is that my grades are recorded?</p>
<p>I'm going to meet with her to discuss my latest presentation hopefully tomorrow. Would it be best to not bring up the fact that I'm arguing the grade solely to gain .4% for an A? She will know that's my intention anyway, though, right? </p>
<p>Does anyone have any advice for disputing grades at college? I'm hoping since this is for a speech class, presenting my point to her orally will make it impossible for her not to bump me up. I just reviewed the videos of every presentation I gave and took notes and identified all the ways in which I improved (thus showing my final presentation was more successful than the 89.8% she gave me deemed it to be...). </p>
<p>I think it is up to the prof to round a grade up, but they certainly are not required to. A lot of them do it at Kelley when final grades are based on percentage instead of total points. This happens in many cases when the prof uses Excel, as Excel rounds .5 and higher to the next whole number. Probably way less likely for them to round up when they base grades on a 1,000 point scale. My son had Kolouvou for speech, and she used a 1,000 point scale. He got 95.5% on the final sales speech, but only an A- because his group scores were like 85%. She specifically said in the syllabus for that class that it would be pointless to argue for a higher score at the end of the semester. If your prof communicated a similar message, I might not argue for a higher grade. I don’t think the A- will look bad on your transcript in trying to get into Kelley honors, as a lot of excellent students don’t get a solid A in X104 because group work is such a big component. His class had eight direct admits and 25 students total and there was only one A in the class. I like your argument for why the final speech grade should logically be higher, though.</p>
<p>I’m in honors business presentations. My professor I think expected people to argue their grades because the last day of class, she said to email her if you want to dispute your grade. I’m planning on not technically arguing for an A but rather for a better grade on my final presentation which would then bump me to an A. She gave me 202/225, but I’m going to argue for 206/225 or 207/225.</p>
<p>I think that’s great Jigglypuff. She obviously is willing to listen to reason, and you have a sound argument. You might consider asking for at least a 210 though to give her some negotiating room.</p>
<p>Im sitting at 93.9% for X104 and thats showing up as an A- which is really disturbing since by points it is 939/1000 which means I am one point away from an A. Hopefully when I meet my teacher after break the grade will be changed.</p>