<p>Ask. Nicely. Hard to believe, but some teachers really just aren’t thinking about the ramifications of 91.5 versus 92 for the student. He might just be a hard-a$$ about it, but it could be that he’s just not thinking about it.</p>
<p>If any student is reading this…Whether you are in HS or college, get to know your teachers, go to office hours. It is always a much easier conversation when they have been seeing you on a regular basis. Both of my kids (one in college and one in 9th grade) go see their teachers regularly, especially in the subjects they have harder time with. D1 has been given extension on problem sets/papers, given points back on tests. Teachers are regular people, they want to know you are interested in what they are teaching, not just about grades.</p>
<p>Go to your math teacher and ask her/him to explain to your English teacher that a .5 is rounded up to the next whole number. :)</p>
<p>Did the teacher state, before the year began, that he or she does not round up?</p>
<p>If not, then you have a case. If he did not, I would kindly ask the teacher if he or she would consider rounding up. You also can ask him or her to recheck the grades – we teachers are human. We might have hit the wrong number on the keyboard and that caused the grade to drop. One of my English teacher friends does this all the time – the kids joke about it. When you’re typing in a lots of grades, it happens.</p>
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<p>It will be, um, very difficult to do this without looking like a complete and utter grade-grubber. “Oh no, a B!” “Making a stink” will make you look…“ridiculous” is about the kindest word I can think of here.</p>
<p>The only way I can think of to do it is to civilly ask the teacher if your understanding that his policy is to not round up is correct, and, if he says that it is <em>not</em> correct, to then bring up the matter of your own situation. Even then he will likely see what is coming from the start, but politeness and staying calm and pleasant can go a long way.</p>
<p>In my academic life, I have had instructors who round up, instructors who don’t, and instructors who base whether they do or don’t on the effort that you seem to have put in. There’s no constant standard.</p>
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<p>Grades come in ranges. Deal.</p>
<p>If you feel that your work in class deserves an “A”, ask teacher if he can give you additional assignment for some extra credit to prove it. Talk to him about your goal of having an “A” in his class and your willingness to do extra to accomplish it. Better yet, ask him maybe he would consider giving one more volunteer (non-mandatory) assignment to entire class for people like you who want to improve their grade in this class.</p>
<p>Your teacher is under no obligation to round your grade up. You have less than a 92. In our school the number grades will be averaged over the course of the year so that even though a 91 might be a B, it’s not that hard to bring up so that your final grade in the subject (the one colleges will see on the transcript) could easily be an A.</p>
<p>In my experience, many high school transcripts include all semester grades. So, if OP’s 91.5 is a semester grade, the B will appear on the transcript. That being said, it is ok to get a B.</p>
<p>^especially if you end the year with an A. :)</p>
<p>BTW my son got into many good schools (including Harvard) with gasp! three B’s in English.</p>
<p>Talk to your teacher! This year, I am ashamed to say, I twisted the arms of not one, but two teachers, to round my grade up by .3/.5 percent. Did it give these teachers a less than favorable impression of me? Maybe, maybe not</p>
<p>As long as you aren’t someone who constantly argues about grades, suck up to your teacher this one time - he/she will probably cave</p>
<p>I did talk to my teacher today and very nicely asked him if it was his policy to round up. He responded that it depended on the student but in my case, YES, he had rounded my grade up to a 92. He congratulated me and he said I had worked very hard (which I had) so he felt I deserved the 92.<br>
I had gone to his office hours on a regular basis. He knew I was putting in a great deal of effort. Semester grades do show up on our school’s transcript, so I thought this was an important issue to pursue.
Thank you for all of your opinions and advice.
Peace.</p>
<p>Makes you glad you maintained a relationship with your teacher. Congratulations.</p>
<p>Wow…another happy CC student story!</p>
<p>Hey, Good Job Stumblin’!</p>