<p>One of the schools I'm applying to requires a graded paper, and I want to send in this one paper I have but the problem is that there are NO comments by the teacher on it for some reason. The teacher really liked it when I read it aloud in class and it looks like he just recorded the grade right in his book and didn't even write a grade on it. Is this a really big problem? I would rather send in this one than another one I found that isn't as nice but has lots of stuff written all over it.</p>
<p>Yes, it's a big problem. If not even the grade is on the paper, the school will not know that it's "a graded paper". You could be sending them anything.</p>
<p>The paper must have at least the grade, and should have other comments. You can send this paper in as a supplement if you wish.</p>
<p>urrrgh then I'll have to go to my English teacher and ask about it. I just hope he still has the grade recorded, it was last year.</p>
<p>^^I'm sure if you went to him and asked, he'd be more than happy to check his grades from last year (I'm pretty sure teachers keep a record of these). Also, ask him if he can mark it up a bit for you (add a comment here or there and write an overall statement about the paper at the end)...I'm sure he wouldn't mind helping you out with this.</p>
<p>Yeah, just explain the situation to the teacher. My son had to send one, too. The one he wanted to send did have the grade on it ("47/50", if I recall), and just a little comment like "Very Good" or something like that. Otherwise it just had little check marks on the margin as the teacher checked off points made or something. That teacher's graded papers almost always looked like that. But it was one of his better papers and so my son sent it.</p>
<p>Something similar happened to my D. She took the paper back to her teacher who read it, wrote comments and gave her the grade he had given her the previous year. He was more than happy to help. Try that.</p>