<p>Since my counselor "highly recommended" an additional year of Spanish, I decided to enroll in a city college Spanish course over the summer. I had been bugging my professor to tell me my grades for a few weeks (it's a 6 week course), and she FINALLY told me a few days before the final and said I had a 97%. I was ecstatic, but doubtful because my test scores were all around 95%. I spent about 20 minutes studying for a final worth 30% of my grade because I calculated that I needed a C to maintain an A.</p>
<p>But when I walked in on the final, my professor told me that she had done the grades wrong and that I needed a 90% to keep my A. After the final, I asked to look at a spreadsheet of my grades, and based off of intuition, my overall grade looked abnormally low - I had mostly 95%, except an 80% on a pop quiz.</p>
<p>The next day she emailed me saying I got an 86% on the final, but that due to the problem I found in the grades, I still had an A.</p>
<p>In 9th grade biology, I needed at least a 90% final average to be able to take AP Biology in 11th grade. My final average was 89.99%. The teacher rounded it up to a 90% :)</p>
<p>But I always have vveeeeery close calls!
Last yer in my bio class, I had 91% in the class, I need at least a 85% to keep my A- and during the final there were 100 mutiple choice and 30 short answer, and we had to finish that in 54 mins. There’s not way right? So I only finished half of the 30 short answers. So I was like YUPPP I failed… Just give me my B! And it turned out the evil teacher was just pulling a “prank” and the 30 short answers were extra credit, he never told us that until, the day after the final! It turned out I got 100% on the final, and I got an A+! Woaaaah I was lucky! :)</p>
<p>79.96 in world history first semester got rounded up to a B. In APUSH we had 1600 points or so first semester and I was .3 points off an A, but he rounded.</p>
<p>Had a low B in Honors Bio last year and I don’t know exactly what I got on the final but it brought me down to a 79.5% which was considered a B. Pretty crazy that my grade depended on like one question…</p>
<p>In politics, I misread a question on one test - “describe the prevailing economic philosophies of the 1980s, with reference to the policies of leaders at the time”, or so I thought - and answered it mostly on Reagan and supply-side economics. The next day, the teacher showed me the paper again. I’d missed the last few words, “…in Europe”. 47%, fail.</p>
<p>Thankfully, that was a practice test, and didn’t count towards my average. I was still absolutely terrified, though. :|</p>
<p>Last year in Honors Chem 2, I got a 78 on the final, which was just awful, but it was the EXACT LOWEST grade I could have gotten while still getting a 90, which is an A, for the semester.</p>
<p>World Civ teacher told me at the end of school last year (sophomore year) that I had a 91.49, which wouldn’t round up unless it was 91.5 (92=A). So I got ****ed, accepted the fact I had a B (not the end of the world, I know, but missing it by literally .01 of a point is rage-inducing, needless to say) and moved on with my life. Couldn’t get my report card over the summer since I was out of town so much so when I got back to school this fall I saw my final grades last year on this year’s midterm (shows you just a little recap or whatever).</p>
<p>“World Civilization…92 A”</p>
<p>Turns out grades round up at .45. Talk about a close call. I was pretty stoked though!</p>
<p>How about close calls that go the other way? Last year in my english class I had a 93 (just barely) right before the final. I took the final, got a 91, which brought my grade down a 92, and thus an A-. I was furious at my teacher, she could have given me a few extra points on the essay to bring me up a bit. She probably didn’t even notice that I went from an A to an A-. Oh well.</p>