<p>Ok so for my marketing class, we had to do a group project that had a huge effect on our final grade for the class (around 30-40%). Well I was in a group of 4 others and one was smart and the rest were slackers imo. Well I was the 2nd smartest in the group and we ended up getting a 63 for 18% of all of our grades. Ok so should i email the teacher to try to get him to try to change the grade. I felt like I put a good amount of work into the project and didn't get rewarded for having other idiots in my group (1 a frat boy that missed most meetings and was just an idiot: said he didn't know about 1 test after the teacher told us we were having a test the next class). IDK my teacher said to us that you could argue your grade by going to his house and having lunch with him(guessing he was half joking) before monday. IDK I feel like i got screwed for being in a group with mostly idiots but idk. Any advice?</p>
<p>Ask your professor if he would like to go out for a cup of coffee. Seriously. Talk to this guy, in person!@</p>
<p>This might be crazy…but since it’s a marketing class, it’s possible that the marketing professor gave lower grades than people deserved, to give them a chance to go into an office and market their paper for a better grade.</p>
<p>lol maybe. Well i ended up emailing him and he sent me a solid response but doesn’t really make me feel like he will change the grade. I feel that he might change it to a B- if i get lucky but idk. I told him i was very close to deans list so i’m hoping that helps my cause and the fact i got an 80 average on 3 tests (2 good ones and 1 bad one bc i didnt get to study bc i was studying for another subject). He ended up telling me i wasn’t unlucky bc he didnt assign groups but I picked 4 random people bc i didnt know anyone because i’m a transfer. I just feel like it sucks because I picked a group and got semi unlucky with a few bad members. I think group projects are unfair because they dont grade you based on just your performance.</p>
<p>Group projects are what you frequently have to deal with in the real workplace and you have to negotiate the strengths and weaknesses of the group in order to succeed. Sometimes this means taking on a ton of the work yourself to make up for the slackers in the group - that’s just life. It helps you learn that you need to identify these folks and prepare to work around them for success. Yes, your success is also their success - except they didn’t have to work for it.</p>
<p>group work imo is not right for the college atmosphere. I’m not stuck with your normal slackers. These were slackers that didnt attend group meetings and didn’t put much into our 27 page paper. College should be singular and should grade the student and not a team effort in such a way that it affects my grade. There is no way a person could be this bad in the workforce bc they literally did next to nothing for our project (1 frat kid that only cares about drinking and 1 other). I just think that group work is unfair because it doesn’t grade me on my own performance.</p>
<p>^ I disagree with you.</p>
<p>They’re preparing you for what is ahead. For any business major, you’re going to be doing a lot of interaction with people who provide numerous talents, and drawbacks, to the group. You need to best work with this situation to achieve a realizable, universal goal. </p>
<p>I think you got what you earned. If your team fails, you fail. This is no different than real business like decisions and situations. Deal with it. </p>
<p>People are going to judge you by your final product. Not by what you did in making that final product. No one sees that. They only see what you provide them. In this case it was a 27 page paper and it sucked.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>People will judge the company on the final product, but within the company it will be clear if someone on a team did none of the work, and they will be punished accordingly. </p>
<p>By this logic, id say that it couldn’t hurt. But in all honesty its probably not going to change anything if the paper isnt good.</p>
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<p>Yes, it could that bad…those frat kids that only care about drinking graduate from college, too.</p>
<p>lol idk about this frat kid bro. He probably got 40-60’s on the tests that were simple if you studied for like an hour. IDK most frat kids graduate but some are just losers in general and probably make it no where in life.</p>