SO!
For my finals in microeconomics, we have a system in which the professor uploads the answers to finals couple hours after the exam has been finished. You receive two exams, one for the department and one for the sectional. Once you are finished with your exams, you just hand over the marking papers and the exam papers are free to be taken with you. After the answers were released on the internet, I have gone through my exam papers with the answers that I had worked on, and I scored 90% on the department and 88% on the sectional. I believe I am 100% confident that those scores are the ones I should be receiving but when the grade came out 5 days ago, I received god damn 64% for the sectional! For department, I received 90% as expected.
I would understand if my grade for sectional was lower by couple percentages as I may had marked the wrong answers on my marking paper, but 64% is just way too lower than 88%.
Although the professor was like sending all the students that the course is over now and no changes in the grade should be made, do you think there is any chance for me to look over my paper and see how I got so low? All I’m asking is to look it by myself. I have worked so hard for the finals for achieving B grade which is essential for me to get into the business school but in the end I got B- and it seems like all the work I’ve put this entire semester just became nothing.
So What should I do?? The next semester starts in 3 weeks and I’m currently far away from the campus so it is literally impossible for me to get to the campus during the break.
I assume the professor still has your marking sheet, so can recheck your grades, you can mention in a polite email that you wrote down the answers you selected and think you answered more questions correctly. There are always errors, but consider, you will also lose any credit due to errors in your failure, and if some parts of the test are not multiple choice you are reopening the opportunity to get a lower grade on those sections (and the prof won’t be that generous). That assumes it is OK to take the test materials and your proposed answers home with you.
Obviously, the marking sheet must still be in the professor’s custody as well.
Next time study harder. Trying to guess the level of non-knowledge necessary to get a B, when your goal is a competitive graduate admission is probably not a wise idea. If you had studied more, and gotten more answers right, you could be sitting on an A or B right now.
It is not the professors job to “curve” your grade up so you can get in your dream school. There are other students doing better in the class. become one of them.
Not to nitpick, but that’s relative. The difference between 88% and 64% can be a matter of 1 or 2 questions depending on how many questions were on the exam.
In any case, you should have the right to see your own score sheet that you turned in, although it is considered property of your school. I definitely suggest looking it over to make sure you didn’t mark in different answers that what the sheet you took with you shows - maybe a series of bubbling errors, like you accidentally skipped one question and it threw your other answers off if it was multiple choice? If that’s the case, then it is still your responsibility and I’d consider the professor and department very generous if they let you retake that exam.
@PickOne1 I am also an IU student, and there was no written portion of the exam, and he didn’t violate any rules by taking the testing materials. Also, his goal is not graduate admission, it is to get into the undergraduate business school which requires a B or better in every class freshman year to guarantee admission.