<p>My history teacher gave me the same grade on my essay (90) even though I made sure I corrected everything I did on the first one. She didn't even write any reason on the second one, she just gave me a 90. People who I have always scored higher than on essays got 92's and 95's (even the one kid who had the lowest average last year in my english class got a 100!). How do you guys deal with this sorta stuff? Should I stay after class with her one day and review it?</p>
<p>Yes, I would recommend you stay after class and ask her for her reasons... although I'm not quite sure what happened -- did she check your rough draft and make suggestions or something (on your "first one"), which she then expected you to fix?</p>
<p>There is little difference between a 90 and a ~95 though, especially on essays. Maybe she just didn't like your writing style? Their grading rubrics aren't exactly quantifiable...</p>
<p>Uhhh, do not complain about getting a 90 on an essay.
I can honestly say that I write pretty BA essays, and last year in my APUSH class, the teacher graded essays like... nothing we'd ever seen before. I was getting like 60s on them in the beginning, but finally figured out exactly what he was looking for [he was really, well, picky about certain stuff] and finallllllly by the end of the year pulled off a 98 [the highest grade he gives].
NOW my AP Lit teacher is.. crazy? lol, well literally crazy though, and I just got one of our essays back with a 71, the highest grade in the class. Uhhh...
Yeah.</p>
<p>I would talk to your teacher. Don't complain about your grade, and definitely don't ask her to change it. Just try to find out what she's looking for - it will help you through the rest of the year. Most teachers respond well to a genuine request for help - it shows initiative. Make sure you don't complain or accuse her of unfair grading, though, she could see this as an attack and get defensive.</p>
<p>I HAAAAAAAATE getting essays graded. I've had teachers admit to graded by the ruberic rather than to the quality of the writing. I find that when I sacrifice quality for the standard, BS ruberic system, I score higher.</p>
<p>Yes. you want to make a big deal out of your teacher because you got a 90.</p>
<p>Either way, it's probably the teacher's weird way of grading, but if it were a 90 I wouldn't be complaining...that has happened to me before in english (but I didn't care less).</p>
<p>Ooooh, I love moving up in the #s from not-so-good-an-essay-writer-in-the-teacher's-eyes to omg-you-should-forget-medicine-and-become-a-writer.</p>
<p>My Lang teacher was such a hardass last year with our first essay -- it had to be 5 pages, and we had all of 1 weekend to do it. The average grad was, like, a D! ;O</p>
<p>Ah, the lowest grade I've ever received on an essay was a 68 from my APUSH teacher (grrr, it dropped me down to an A- lol). He said he couldn't understand it, lol (I admit though, it was a tad wordy, even for me ). My usage was impeccable (and I was capable of demonstrating so), except for a single bloody case -- I thought that the word "boon" could be used as a verb, lol -- so he was like "behold your feeble grasp of the English language" and sent me away. the bastard... :<</p>
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<p>Ugh, I had a World History teacher last year who I swear just thought of random two-digit numbers and wrote them on papers. He rarely wrote comments -- just a number at the top. </p>
<p>But he definitely looked at names. So for him, all I could do was prove, by participating in class, that I knew my stuff and was capable of thinking critically.</p>
<p>I have an English teacher that give grades depending who's paper he is holding. If he likes the student (butt kissers) , automatic high score. If he hates them ( including me because I have bad comments about him ), we recieve our papers full of circles and question marks. He keeps saying: your essay is done in haste, thats the reason for such a low score. To be honest, I turned in all 3 drafts along with the final typed piece, and he gave me the same grade and comment. Next time if it happens again, i'll just yell strait into his face: " GOD MADE YOU WITH HASTE !!! NOW SHUT UP !!! "</p>
<p>One weekend to write a five page paper isn't too bad. I'm so glad I procrastinated like heck in high school so I'm able to write essays in relatively small amounts of time- it is a very very very very handy skill to have in college. Seriously.</p>
<p>Ah, of course, but I had a boatload of HW in some of my other classes, as well (I had to read and take notes on something in bio and I had another 6 page paper to write for USH, and some other random stuff.</p>
<p>These days I can churn out a 5 page opinion piece (start to finish) in an hour or 2, and a research paper of the same length in maybe 3 or 4 hours at most...</p>
<p>One of my teachers told me that the essay I gave him was the best he'd ever seen on the topic. But he gave the class suck-up a higher mark! ******bag.</p>