<p>I HATE my Honors English teacher. Some days I really just wish I was in regular English because it would be so much better. She has this weird percent weight system but refuses to tell us what the weights are. She never passes back essays but grades them super harshly. I went from a 96% to a 93% because I got a 90% on 1 essay that I worked really hard on. The summer reading tests were really annoying and nit-picky with details and she doesn't grade anything, including the test we took 4 weeks ago. Last time, very little was entered into the gradebook until 1 week before the quarter was over. Usually lazy teachers are easy, but she's lazy and difficult. And the one thing that's easy, vocabulary, she intentionally weights it very little. She needs to be fired.</p>
<p>Lol you just described every other AP English teacher out there.</p>
<p>Law of diminishing returns seems to apply pretty well to English classes - sure, you could spend another 4 hours working on that project or essay, but it’s only going to raise your grade by a point or two.</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher gave me a 0/30 on the DBQ portion of the midterm because I didn’t write my answers in the right area; the directions were not printed on the test and you only knew what to do if you listened to her for 2 minutes when she said the directions in class. I got a B- on the midterm (150 pts total or something) Brought my 96 to a 90 and I had to fight in the next semester to bring it up to a 92.5+ for an A. I ended up with a 92.7, phew lol.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I have a bad habit of not reading directions[I hear that lots of “smart” kids do], but I’ve been improving it lately. Now, I always make it a habit to read the directions so I don’t screw something up. I’m also REALLY paranoid on Scantrons. </p>
<p>Regular English is a whole world away from Honors English. The regular teachers curve tests and give extra credit, grade stuff promptly, and give busy work to boost your grade. Honors English is just horrible…</p>
<p>All my other classes(Honors Algebra 2, Gym, Modern World History, Spanish 2, Honors Biology) are easy besides Honors Bio, which I have a 97 in because you get a lot of points for busywork and I’ve perfected memorization with Quizlet.</p>
<p>My AP lang teacher doesn’t even read anything, similar position as OP. She just gives arbitrary grades and if you are lucky, you get a 93, if you are unlucky, you get am 85. The smartest kids get 85s and the dumber ones get 93s. There is no rhyme or reason to it, she is a terrible teacher. She would be fired if she didn’t have tenure and if all the naturally smart kids didn’t get 5s on the AP exam.</p>
<p>My math teacher. I’ve never had a teacher that didn’t at least passively like me, and I am convinced this one has it out for me. I just don’t know why :P</p>
<p>I have several stories, but as of most recently: Earlier this week, she assigned us a short powerpoint project about symmetry. The directions said that we should include 3 slides, each with a picture of something showing mathematical symmetry in the real world and a description. I thought that, you know, as a nice supplement, I’d add in a slide with the definition of symmetry. She then deducted fairly significantly from my grade, claiming that I “didn’t follow directions”, when really, I did exactly what was required. I didn’t think the extra slide would affect my grade at all, but if anything, I should have gotten a bonus point for putting in extra effort.</p>
<p>My AP Calc teacher assigned a take-home test, on a subject that we didn’t go over, during an actual test that most everyone did poorly on, in the last hour on the last day before Thanksgiving Break. :(</p>
<p>Our AP lang teacher had a harsh grading system…on nearly all essays, the vast majority of students would get a C+ or B-. I would be elated with a B or B+.</p>
<p>My first engineering professor was pretty bad, the total grade consisted of 2 tests, where there were only 1 to 2 problems. So if you miss just one problem you most likely fail the class, and it’s not curved. Most people end up failing of course. Here was the grade breakdown of students in a recent class:</p>
<p>I drew a (small) picture on my friend’s worksheet in biology last year and the teacher took a point or two off of his paper (it was a 12ish point assignment, if I remember correctly). I’m just glad that he’s not obsessed with his grades, and as a result didn’t care that much.</p>
<p>My Honors Earth Science teacher never puts grades in the grade book. She gives us these packets that are weighted more than other work and she will count off for nit picky things. I had a 94 after missing 8 and 1/2 questions on a packet. I then received a 108 on a worksheet. After she finally put the grade in, my grade went down to a 93! I asked her about this and she said that she put other grades in also. I checked powerschool and she didn’t! The grading period is over Wednesday and I’m worried. -_-</p>
<p>I once had an earth environmental teacher (the only core class with no honors option) and she would make scantron answer keys that were wrong and my grades would come out to 50% or 60% I had to beg her to let me look over my test and had to individually ask her why each question was wrong so that she would see I was correct. I got nothing lower than a 95% when they were run correctly</p>
<p>My math teacher moved the deadline of a major research paper up from May 1st to April 12th, and assigned a fairly large test before spring break without much warning ahead of time. Yeah…</p>