<p>Has anybody had success in negotiating with an instructor to change your grade after it has been tallied?</p>
<p>In one of my classes, I am about 0.20 percentage points away from an A. My final grade has already been posted, but not made official. I have contacted my TA and asked him if he could round it up, but I don't know if he will yet. </p>
<p>Will this work?</p>
<p>I attended both undergrad and grad school, and I have NEVER heard of “negotiating” grades. What happened to getting the grade you earned and nothing more? Oh, I forgot, mommy and daddy used to swoop in and complain until you got A’s or extra credit work or something, right? Other people earned legitimate A’s. you did not. Why should you get an A?</p>
<p>@ teachandmom: You seem to think professors are infallible and that students who complain about a grade are whiny, when there have been legitimate mistakes made by professors that cost students a few points. For example, for my first physiology midterm, there was a question that was phrased in such a way that TWO answers were acceptable (either a or c, but there was no option saying "both a and c). The professor acknowledge the extremely poor wording of that question, and gave everyone who answered “a” instead of “c” (because both answers were correct. However, C was the answer noted on the key) a point. My biochemistry professor also accepts regrades of exams if a student pointed out (on a separate piece of paper, with the original test unaltered) why there was a discrepancy in the grading, since the TAs are the ones who grade the exams and they can miss something while grading. One of my roommates got 20 points back on her test because her TA failed to notice that what she wrote in the short essay portion was similar to that on the answer key published on the class site after the test, and gave her a 0 instead of the 20 points my roommate clearly deserved, and my roommate noticed this when comparing her test with the key.</p>
<p>This is most likely a policy thing. One of my daughter’s teachers clearly explained that his policy was that if you were within .5 of the next grade level he would round up. This was also true in my daughter’s HS. However, I know other schools where there was no rounding whatsoever - even a 89.95 was a B.</p>
<p>Is there a reason that he should round up? Is there a point or something that you missed like in soprano’s example? Most profs do round up, but not all. I had a Geo prof that plainly said on her syllabus that a 90+ was a 4.0, an 89.9 was not. There was no “negotiating”. If there’s no such policy then you might be able to ask for the round up if you contributed or attended almost every class. Worth a shot. </p>
<p>And I second soprano’s first sentence. Completely unnecessary, teach. The OP didn’t say that he deserved the A or even that he expected to get it OR ELSE. He simply asked if anyone else had had luck. Can’t fault him for trying.</p>
<p>Yes, some professors have strict policies about grades and not rounding while others may round depending on factors such as effort put in (going to office hours for example) and grade trend. Talk to your professor.</p>
<p>This is totally different, because it was high school, but I was able to get my grade to go from a B to a B+ once. Sometimes, if you just ask your professor to round up, they will.</p>
<p>I asked my high school AP Euro teacher if I could do any extra credit to round my grade (an 86) to an 87 for the year. He messed around with the numbers for some previous grades and manipulated it to where I had an 87, so I came out with a B+. He didn’t even make me do any extra credit.</p>
<p>I also have known some professors who would bump up students who asked. I’ve known of professors to give extra credit.</p>
<p>And then there are some professors who won’t do anything to your grade. It is what it is. You just have to ask to find out.</p>