<p>this teacher I had last semester hates me and he actually told me ones that I am not smart enough like other students. I am a straight A student with a 3.66 gpa in EE/physics and work my ass off in school so it hurts. Now for the final grade he calculated my average wrong and gave me an 84 which is a B. To seem nice he said he gave me a B+ instead of the B because he curved the grades. I calculated the average myself and got an 87.5 which is a B+. I showed him all my calculations and he accepted it and said since he gave me a B+ on the first place it is a B+ anyway. If he curves the grades for the class shouldn't my B+ be an A-?</p>
<p>He is under no obligation to change your grade in that situation. He thought a B+ was the correct/fair grade (for both the 84 and 87.5 calculations), and that’s what he gave you. Don’t act as if you’re entitled to more than that because he doesn’t have to change a thing.
It sucks not to get a higher grade sometimes, but such is life. He gave you the grade you earned, nothing more nothing less.</p>
<p>teacher may be a bit difficult but take the B+. If he hated you, it could be much worse!</p>
<p>I am asking if he is curving a grade shouldn’t he curve all the grades. Because with his curve another student with 87% average got an A-.</p>
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<p>I have never ended up happier from counting other people’s money. Same principle applies with calculating other people’s grades. </p>
<p>Unless you know the whole story–all the circumstances that led to this student’s earning 87% of the points and receiving a grade of A- in the class–you can’t say whether that student’s grade should have any bearing on yours.</p>
<p>When your professor thought you’d earned 84% of the points, he also thought B+ was a grade that represented the quality of your work better than B. Turns out, he was right, because you actually earned 87.5% of the points. You earned a B+, and you received a B+. Nobody has withheld anything from you that you were entitled to. Pressing for more will not reflect well on you.</p>
<p>This is clearly frustrating to you–especially since you know (or at least, believe) that there’s something going on with another student’s grade that isn’t going on with yours. I am sorry about your frustration, but I don’t think you have a real grievance here.</p>
<p>Sorry that life is bad. I feel your pain. Also had a universally terrible ‘prof’ last sem who hated me especially. I would suggest not to raise a stink about the unfortunate B+, especially if the git is a prof in your major. You won’t want all the other profs in the major to think of you as an insolent trouble-maker or whatnot. Profs within the department talk, especially if the department is relatively small (~10 full-time faculty or less). You need other profs from your major to like you, to get recommendations, etc. You also need to admin person in your dept to like you to help you out in the future, and doing a formal appeal is gonna be a pain in her/his ass.</p>
<p>B+: unfortunate by CC standards, but deffo could be worse. Just gotta accept it I guess. In my own circumstance, I lamented that life is bad that sometimes we had no choice with a horrible, hateful prof. But I guess it’s as big a deal as you make it, right? This is just one teacher from 1 class from 1 semester of your undergrad career. Pffft. Feel free to vent about your prof here, but don’t expect too much sympathy on CC -_-</p>
<p>It is unfair, but it could be worse. Since you already spoke to the professor, you’ll have to decide if it’s worth it to go to the department head about the grade. Explain the situation rationally, and DO NOT mention anything about the professor “hating” you. That will reflect badly on you because it doesn’t sound adult, an especially bad situation if this is your major department.</p>
<p>How do you know the grade he used? Maybe he made the cutoff an 84-88 for a B+. 89-92 is A-, above is an A.</p>
<p>^True. My DiffyQ professor had 81-91 was a B average, and 71-81 was C average. Sucked if you were on the 80 or 90 edge :(</p>
<p>Is this the same professor who is keeping your research stipend money for himself? You claim that in another thread. You seem to be beset with problems with your professors, or is it the other way around?</p>
<p>no it’s a different prof. I always have problems because I don’t settle down without a fight. That’s my personality and I won’t change it. I don’t fight for an A when I did a D worth of work but if I actually put effort I would fight for the grade I deserve. I might look like a pest but I believe it is always good to fight for what you deserve than dwell or regret.</p>
<p>Man, are you ever gonna pull a complete 180 when you enter the working world with that attitude. If you admit to seeming like a pest, you’re doing it wrong.</p>
<p>You also claim sex discrimination during internship interviews in another thread. Perhaps they just did not like your Pesty attitude.</p>
<p>Man… An ‘A’ is not due to effort. It is due to achievement. art2CS is right, you will fail miserably, and I mean miserably, when you enter the professional world if you continue with that mentality. Learn to be more grateful & humble. Sometimes when it is everyone else’s fault, over and over and over again, there is one commonality…</p>
<p>It sounds like she aint a team playa…! I read somewhere that in the real and professional world, if one is an odd-ball trying to argue and outsmart any team members including the team leader, the Big Kahuna aint gonna like it.</p>
<p>@Jan - Absolutely. This is why they say 50% of the job is showing up and not being a pain. Humility and discretion goes a long, long way, especially when your place on the totem pole ain’t near the top. That professor/manager you managed to annoy a few years back will remember if you ever come crawling back for a letter of recommendation or positive reference.</p>
<p>art2CS: she probably thinks: my teacher hates me and also the world hates me too but my baby loves me no matter what? No…</p>
<p>Art2CS is a absoluetly right with the “humility and discretion”. It will take you a long way in life, not just wtih teachers and profs.</p>
<p>I have to agree with the general consensus in this thread. This attitude will get you NOWHERE, even if it seems like it will now. I agree with the idea of standing up for what’s right, but your problem is you are going about it in a very childish way. Being a girl in engineering also, I can tell you this is not necessary even in sexism situations.</p>
<p>I once had a professor who tried to give me a bad grade on a take home exam just because he “thought” another student had worked with me (similar answers on an easy problem). He even claimed he had “evidence” that another student had seen us working together (not true). Instead of getting upset and claiming he hated me, I simply told him I was sure I was in the right and I would just take it to the board, no more worries. Right then and there he said he was just checking to make sure we hadn’t cheated, and he graded it on the spot - got a 96. The best part of this story is that he also gave me a reference for an internship after all that, because I hadn’t burned any bridges. There is no reason why you should ever have to result to brute force to get your way if you KNOW you are right. If you do, you were wrong to begin with.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>“I simply told him I was sure I was in the right and I would just take it to the board”</p>
<p>Idungeddit. How did you pull this off without sounding insolent? Also, by threatening to take it to the board (I take it you mean the highest level-- chair, dean, provost), how did you manage to not burn any bridges?</p>