<p>Has anyone ever tried to appeal a final grade (after it came out on bearfacts) and succeed in getting either the gsi or professor to bump up your grade?</p>
<p>I will after the holidays are over. I got A’s on both midterms and the final went like clockwise just like the midterm but ended up with an A-. Unless I did poorly on the final, I would like to see what happened.</p>
<p>Meh I was going to. But got to lazy. Sigh I dont care about grades anymore</p>
<p>@pinklavender: What type of course are we talking about (lower or upper div.) and, in what department?</p>
<p>Yeah, I had an A- on bearfacts last semester. I emailed my GSI to see my entire grade breakdown and it turns out he recorded one of my essays as an A- instead of an A. </p>
<p>He emailed the professor and my grade was changed to an A on bearfacts within a few days, so it’s possible!</p>
<p>Only once! The grade was significantly lower than it should have been. Let’s just say if that was my true grade, I would have had to have truly failed my final paper. Once I appealed, it took the entire summer and a week and a half of the first semester (SHEESH!!!) to get it changed. My professor apologized and just corrected the error, but kept saying, “We’re very careful with our grade calculations. I’m pretty sure there’s no error.” Well…there was :D.
So. be persistent.
And now, as of 9am, I’m on the ball about another grade that I think was a little lower than expected.
Good luck!!!</p>
<p>Just this semester I had been wondering about a class I took 2 semesters ago where I scored above average for both midterms in a class but ended up getting a meh grade (final was really hard, so at that time I rationalized that I might have totally failed the final).</p>
<p>But this semester I was talking to some other students within my major and two of them had an A- in that class. 1 of them didn’t even score as well as I did or as well as the average in the two midterms, which boggles me why she ended up with an A-. BUT she did say the final was do-able, while the rest of us from the same class were complaining that the final was impossible. (It was do-able to her and the other A- person because they were taking another related class simultaneously that taught them more “advanced” stuff that happens to be on our final. So the final was impossible for us, not them.)</p>
<p>If I asked about my grade then, I probably would’ve gotten a grade correction of some sort but it’s too late now.</p>
<p>BUT NOW I do have another class I think I should’ve done very well in but my grade doesn’t reflect so. The class has 3 GSIs. Should I just send one of the GSIs an email regarding info on grade breakdown or to the professor directly?</p>
<p>@CalOhCal: I think it depends on who handles the final grades for the course. If it’s the GSIs, email the GSI that you’re on best terms with, and cc the other GSIs and professor. If it’s the professor, email the professor.</p>
<p>I never had to go through a formal grade appeal, but one semester, my professor issued my final grade but forgot to record scores for two of my homework assignments. Luckily, I still had the graded assignments and left them in his mailbox with a note for the grade change.</p>