I just got my final exam results today and I ended up getting an 89.49 in AP Biology, which is a B+. I got an A at the end of first semester. I’m thinking of asking the teacher to round my grade up, but I don’t know if she’ll do it. I took the AP Biology exam earlier this month and I think I could have gotten a 5. I’m thinking of studying pre-med when I get to college, so will this hurt my chances of getting in?
You can ask, but you need a better reason than you got an 89.49 and just missed the cutoff, as I suspect she already knows that. And if she bumps you, or offers you an extra credit option, she needs to do the same for all her students.
No.
I suppose you can ask, but if I were a teacher I probably wouldn’t react favorably to someone asking for a grade they didn’t earn. That’s what grading ranges and standards are for.
A half/third of a grade difference in one semester of one of 30 classes taken in high school will just be noise/rounding error on a college application.
No
Please don’t ask a teacher to change a grade unless you’ve found an error in calculations.
It’s insulting. It implies that the grades we put onto report cards are random. It also implies that the A you say you earned the first semester may not be the grade you actually earned-- perhaps it was a B+ that was rounded up.
Have the integrity to take ownership of the grade you actually earned.