<p>At this point you are just looking for somebody who will tell you what you want to hear. It is not going to happen, every person who has posted believes that you should accept your grade. Be mature, accept the grade and situation and recognize that you might not like it but that is the grade you earned and your teacher does not need to justify their choices to you.</p>
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<p>Which just confirms his statement that:</p>
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<p>^there is NO point in appealing if the grade you earn makes no difference to the final result. If you believe you were graded unfairly, though, and the grade DOES make a difference to the final result, then why is it wrong to appeal? And why is it wrong to want an A?</p>
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<p>Most appeals are patently frivolous, but if a grade was truly undeserved then the appeal would be for the purpose of seeing justice done, y’know? It wouldn’t matter if it didn’t affect the final grade. </p>
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<p>It’s not wrong to want an A, but appealing a grade because you wanted a different one obscures the original purpose of the appeals process.
It wouldn’t matter to you if your test was graded unfairly or not (and from what I gather it probably wasn’t). You just want an A, and acquiring an undeserved A is unethical.</p>
<p>Unless you can prove that it was unfairly graded (as in show her where she gave one of your friends credit for an answer you missed) you deserve the B. It doesn’t matter how close you were. They have to make a line somewhere, and you were below it. You can’t get that changed. You’re not the only person ever to barely miss their goal. Plenty of people are one point away from National Merit on the PSAT, and state and national championships of sports and other ECs are won and lost by one point that may have been changed with a different call from the referee all the time. There is a line. Some are over it, some are under it. You are under it. You deserve the B.</p>
<p>rather than everyone saying “you deserved the B”, could someone actually give some advice on how to start the appeal process?</p>
<p>Why would we want to support you in doing something unethical?</p>
<p>why is this so unethical?? If I believe that I deserved an A, then I don’t see a reason why I can’t try to appeal my grade. I don’t let others take advantage of my future, I have to fight for myself…</p>
<p>We’re just saving you time. It’s most likely not going to work in your favor. But here’s an article on how to do it just so you can try. <a href=“http://m.voices.yahoo.com/informally-appealing-final-grade-308463.html[/url]”>http://m.voices.yahoo.com/informally-appealing-final-grade-308463.html</a></p>
<p>There’s still a good chance your grade won’t change though.</p>
<p>And it seems unethical to us because you haven’t been able to prove that your answers were correct (from what you’ve said)</p>
<p>Every school has a different appeal process (some don’t even have an official one), but your grade probably won’t change. The teacher designs the rubric/answer key so anybody with the authority to change your grade would have to base it off that rubric to be fair to other students. You would literally need to prove she gave another student an A for the same quality of work you did.</p>
<p>Now for my opinion… just accept the B. It is really not a huge deal. You don’t need your teacher telling everyone how desperate you are.</p>
<p>^Thanks AmberDA! And yes, I know that it most likely work in my favor. But note the “most likely”. There is still a chance I can get it changed, and why would I throw that chance out?</p>
<p>Hey, I’m was the same boat as you. I got a B+ (tenths of a point from an A) in freshman Geometry because my teacher didn’t make the rules about using calculators on the final clear (she told some people they could use it the whole time, and others they could only use it for the last page.) I considered contesting it for a while… I mean, there was a huge discrepancy in how different students used calculators, but then I decided to just move on. (And I didn’t want to make my entire grade retake the final haha. To make matters worse I found out that she made the final easier for this year’s freshmen, because it was so difficult for our class. That’s definitely not fair.)
In the end, I blamed myself. I should never have been at the point where my grade teetered on tenths of a point. And if my friends could manage A’s on the final, then I could have too. (Moral of the story: Studying for a geo final is probably a good idea :D)</p>
<p>@marshmallowpop: nah, I wouldn’t blame myself if I were you. What grade are you in? if you’re a rising sophomore, i would consider appealing like i will do! but its up to you :P</p>
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<p>Then who are you supposed to blame? He still missed the questions on it, just like you missed the questions on your test. And everyone had the same opportunity to succeed on yours, you just didn’t earn an A. Its that simple.</p>
<p>Hi there…I faced the same issue as you and think that people on this thread have been a weeee bit harsh. </p>
<p>My teacher didn’t calculate the grades according to what was said in the syllabus and by word of mouth and I pointed that out to her and she didn’t change anything. I had a meeting with the principal one day and he asked if I had any issues needing resolving and I brought it up. He emailed my chem teacher and she fixes the issue. However, I’ve had her for three classes and she continually gives me lower grades than I should have, but no biggy…I take it in stride. </p>
<p>I totes understand your frustration with the issue, but try to approach the appeal by talking to your teacher again. If you go through administration that’ll annoy and frustrate your teacher. They HATE it when they’re reprimanded by students, staff, or administration, or got forbid parents. So see if you can ask her clearly the answers to the final, or see if you can get another student’s answer and compare. Don’t talk to the principal like I did (although that didn’t negatively affect me). </p>
<p>Try to sound humble and not super unrelenting. If you think you we’re graded unfairly, fight for the grade. People here say grades are subjective and that teachers get the final say, by THEY’RE HUMAN and make mistakes and are subject to prejudice just like any other person. There is a systematic approach to grades and it’s not nilly willy. I’ve dealt with more than a couple instances of receiving the wrong grade so I understand your situation. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>The reason I think people believe that this is not a case for appeals is because of the grade differential. The difference between a high B and a low A is a very subjective difference. A B is “good” or “above average” while an A is “exceptional.” The difference between those two distinctions are completely up to the sensibilities of the teacher.</p>
<p>What do you think the motivation for this “unfair grading” was? Do you think the teacher is incompetent? Perhaps the teacher is so evil that he/she has made it her life mission to keep you from getting an A and still give you relatively good grades?</p>
<p>I think for an appeal you need evidence. At my school, I sat on the honor councils and to appeal a decision, you have to prove either 1) a breach in procedure or 2) new relevant evidence. What reason do you have to appeal other than the fact that you don’t like your grade? Or do you believe that your ability to evaluate academic work is two points more accurate than the teacher’s?</p>
<p>did you get a 4 or 5 on the test? im also a rising jr who took apush as a sophomore. i got a B+ & a 4. not the end of the world. ive cerebral palsy so its super difficult to move speak etc but im gifted. i couldve had an A- or A but after the test i focused on my other classes to get As in all of them & i also told my teacher to grade my writing as harsh or harsher than collegeboard when i physically could type & was medicated too much or didnt sleep in a few nights (which was only a few times this year!). i know a lot of the kids got As because they either read more or the majority got bumped up. but anyone who got a 5 got bumped up to an A if they didnt already have one</p>
<p>If the grading was extremely vague…I think its somewhat reasonable.</p>
<p>If not and you’re slightly bitter, don’t do it.</p>
<p>^yes, the grading was quite vague. that’s why i’m not sure if she just gave me a B purposefully in case she doesn’t like me(which is very possible, even though I was nice to her throughout the year. guess that didn’t pay off 
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