I got a B without taking the final?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>UCLA is not nearly as hard as i keep anticipating. I have been honestly slacking, not studying until the last week, or the last night. I Freak out but at the end of the day i still get a B as my lowest grade.</p>

<p>A part of me really DOES NOT understand what happens.</p>

<p>I definatley do not feel like they freely hand A's but getitng a B seems very feasable with no work.</p>

<p>And how did i get a B without taking the final that was 50% of my grade? </p>

<p>I am not complaining about it, but i jsut find it weird, has anyone else experienced this or am i alone?</p>

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<p>It depends on the professor and the subject material. </p>

<p>Hello median set to an F.</p>

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<p>i guess i expected a C.</p>

<p>Its like they dont want to give out C's . I felt various times things i wrote were awful, and then i get an A-?</p>

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<p>bah. barely doing anything has finally caught up to me. its worked for me and has gotten me a ~B average before spring quarter. now i have to retake chem 30BL :(</p>

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<p>my midterm and final essays in one class were crap. but i somehow pulled a B.</p>

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<p>At UCLA, it depends on the professor. But most of the time, the median is a ~B- for lower division South Campus, and ~B for North Campus.</p>

<p>Getting a C/C+ is not at all hard for lower div engineering . Adding more effort pulls you a B-/B. But to get an A/A+, I seriosuly believe there is a big gap in knowledge.</p>

<p>One can get away with a lot of stuff and still get a B-. For example, my roomate didn't know what a linear combination was until the day before the final (for 33A) and still got C+/B-.</p>

<p>I honestly believe students who gets A know way more than those with Bs. But there are also exceptions, that if an exam is strictly computational, people can get As without knowing the stuff (ex. by just random matrix multiplication)</p>

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<p>So UCLA has a +/- system of grading? I ask because at my CC right now, whether a student gets a A+ or A-, it's still an A</p>

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<p>yea its +/- except an an A+ is the same weight as an A</p>

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<p>I would like to know what class that is</p>

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<p>econ 110, and i attented i think like 4 classes total. </p>

<p>i got a 59/ 100 on the midterm. average was a 56. an A is an 85.</p>

<p>I think what happend was that the midterm and final were both non cumlulative.. so the final was basically just another test... same format as midtemr and just covered second half.</p>

<p>He allowed us to use the final to make up 100 % of our grade if we want. Since i missed the final it hink he just used my midterm to make up 100 % of my grade.</p>

<p>BUT, i still will say that the effort i have put in is NOT what i expected to put in AT ALL at ucla. </p>

<p>For ES 191, i missed 3 classes, read none of the readings... wrote a paper and presented and my paper was significantly better researched than most but.. i would have given myself a B+ in that class b/c i didnt do a lot of the other work. I got an A-.</p>

<p>In history i NEVER attended class but did watch lectures, and got an A-, even though one of my papers was awful in my opinion. </p>

<p>these are all upper div classes, and in part i expect them to be significantly harder.</p>

<p>When i first showed up, i ended up withdrawing because i didnt really comprehend the way that stupid curve thing most of the school uses. Like getting an 56/100 could be a B or even an A in some cases.</p>

<p>I literally dropped, changed majors, and so on because i though i was FAILING all of my classes and i didnt want to graduate with a 2.2 GPA. Because lets face it, grad schools are not going to want your 2.2 </p>

<p>So i do think UCLA is kind of weird, and it would be significantly more HONEST and better if they used a real grading system that just went by 100-90 is an A and so on. I kind of just feel like, you do nothing for a B, but for an A you literally have to memorize the book and know information no one has ever said before. I dont think thats fare really or useful in the long run. </p>

<p>And i changed from south campus to north campus. So i think in SC its even more noticable how much this bizzaro grading system can just royally screw you at the end of the day.</p>

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<p>One of my history professors from Fall quarter raised my grade from a B to an A-. I am not complaining. :eeps:</p>

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<p>ive had similar experiences. </p>

<p>it depends on the class and the professor, but in my experiences it definitely doesn't take much to get a B at the very lowest. this differs among departments though.</p>

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<p>The highest grade I can get is a f<strong>king B and I studied quite a lot.
SOUTH CAMPUS LIFE IS THE SH</strong>. :(
I even get some D's. f**k</p>

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<p>^
I thought you were the philosophy major?
Perhaps I am thinking of someone else...</p>

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<p>malishka which history prof. is that.</p>