<p>My physics teacher "made a mistake" with the weighting so when I went in to check my grades, he changed my first marking period grade from an A to a B. </p>
<p>The first quarter has been closed since October, can he just mess with my grade like that? No new grades for the first quarter since October 27 and yesterday he does this, because the weighting, I think! </p>
<p>I worked really hard for that A, even though it was so called "wrong" so how can I get it back??? My grade wasn't withheld so when the quarter was over shouldn't that be it?</p>
<p>I'm a worrier and couldn't sleep at all last night (I slept from 6am to a little after 8, waking from a nightmare) and I haven't gotten a bad grade since elementary school so... It's really, really getting to me. </p>
<p>I have honestly no motivation to do my homework because this is making me sick and he refused to lecture on circular acceleration so I'm lost anyway. </p>
<p>Stop panicking. Your grade didn’t “drop” - it is merely redistributed. This happens pretty often when teachers wait until the last minute to figure in final exam weighting. Either that, or you never has an A to begin with. In either case, make an appointment to discuss this calmly with your teacher. And start doing your homework! </p>
<p>Do what you can to stand up for yourself and appeal the grade with him and any other powers that be – offer to do extra credit or whatever, and make sure there are no other “mistakes” in the teacher’s grading that are hurting your grade. Look up grades for all assignments online if you can do that at your school. And for the next marking period, try to aim for a high A rather than borderline A so that can’t happen again. </p>
<p>Yes, it’s huge. I can not graduate all A’s as I could have as of yesterday morning, and that is very upsetting. If I could drop the class I would because it’s 3 hours of homework everyday, stressful material because the teacher thinks the class is self study, and now making my GPA plummet, all became of 6 assignments that were not 100% (tests, the first homework, and one lab)</p>
<p>I feel that he has no right to make my grade so significantly drop after the fact.</p>
<p>Is there a way I could argue this effectively?</p>
<p>He changed everyones grades, not just yours
You cant really argue as your expected to preform ideally regardless of the weighting system
Your best bet is to argue that he shouldnt change the weighting system because you could focus more time on tests rather than homework, especially if he had aset weighting system in the beginning of the year or in the syllabus
However, since its a quarter grade, he probably wont feel that its that big of a deal.
But since its a quarter grade, it wont affect your GPA at all and you still have the hope of a 4.0</p>
<p>*weighting as in not qpa vs GPA but within the class. I think he had labs .3 of our grade when they are .2. His email said that at least someone benefited, actually, but I don’t see how, because if you don’t do the time to do homework, than you probably don’t do labs either anyway. </p>
<p>I think that kid that justifiably did better has a right to the better grade, but that if it pushed anyone else over the cut, we need put A back, because we’re talking the end of the marking period was over 3 weeks ago. I had an A. </p>
<p>No class in high school should require 3 hours of homework every day. If you take Harvard’s Math 55, maybe.</p>
<p>First double-check that your grade is correct and that the weighings are as they should be. Does the syllabus explicitly say that labs are 20%, not 30%? If you are sure you are correct, then perhaps you could appeal.</p>
<p>Also, if your grade is borderline A/B or B/C etc., some teachers may adjust your letter grade up or down depending on class participation or other factors.</p>
<p>Lastly, quarter grades usually don’t affect GPA (not sure how it is at your school) but if you keep at it and do well the rest of the quarter, you can finish with an A.</p>
<p>If he has a block schedule, like me, then quarter grades WILL count into your GPA. You guys aren’t thinking about what type of scheduling he has. Do you have block schedule or full-year schedule?</p>
<p>Back to the original question, yes, he can change the grade after the quarter closes. Note that in college, when you ask for a regrade on an exam, it’s equally possible that you will lose points as gain points So this is a taste of what’s to come. </p>
<p>If you really deserved an A, you can contest it; if you really deserved a B, let it go.</p>
<p>If he had adjusted the weighting before the end of the quarter, would you have done anything differently to raise your grade to an A? Probably not, assuming you were putting forth your best effort all year. You earned a B for first quarter. </p>
<p>As for the claim that your GPA will plummet, it won’t. One B out of 16 quarters worth of courses in high school is almost nothing.</p>
<p>You guys really aren’t as helpful as I was hoping. Already I’m going to be stuck in high school for 5 years because the admin refuses to put me in the classes I need for graduation. This year they tried to give me 2 English classes, no history, and German 2 (when I am supposed to me in Honors Spanish 2). I need gym and speech and civics and teachers that don’t drop grades that weren’t withheld right when I begin my thanksgiving break. </p>
<p>But… thank you for making me feel hopeless. Someday I will thank you, maybe. </p>
<p>I’m just saying that if you were doing your best work, there would be nothing else that you could have possibly done to maintain an A, even knowing in advance that the weights would change. I don’t know exactly how the weighting of your class changed, but my point was that if tests had all along been worth 60% of your grade instead of 50% (just to give an example), you probably would not have spent any more time studying for tests than you normally do. You are subject to the weighting scale that the teacher chooses, regardless of whether it favors your strengths or not.
As someone else said, you are expected to perform well in all aspects of a class, no matter what weight they are given. </p>
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