<p>Semester grades are just coming in for my school, and I'm sure a whole lot of you know the feeling of being so close to moving up a grade level that you can taste it, and yet being unable to because the semester is over.</p>
<p>In my lowest class, my semester grade is a 79.2. Because of how our semester grade is calculated, I would have been able to round that up to an 80 if I had gotten one more point on the midterm. 1 point. My grades have gone down a lot since last year (had a 3.6~ last year, last quarter I had a 3.1, will be lower this quarter), but the fact that a C+ is going on my transcript instead of a B- is just making me stew in my seat. Maybe I can convince the teacher to give me one more point (or, perhaps, to give me 2 points for an essay that I'm handing in late and would be a 0, which would bring me up 1 point for my quarter grade and which would put me into rounding range for a B-.)</p>
<p>So, uh, share your stories of being tortuously close to the next grade up.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but mine are all extremely petty. In fact, the worst was probably getting a 92.8%, an A-, in 8th grade. I've done worse, but each time it was never that close to being the next highest grade.</p>
<p>TWO POINTS ON A ZERO. Almost every teacher at my school would push up that grade, unless they really disliked the person or had a big moral compass thing going on (my history teacher). My chemistry teacher actually went through all her 200+ students' grades and bumped up the borderline ones, but she's pretty awesome in general anyways.</p>
<p>I got a 92.6 (a 93 is a A-) in math this semester. I was about to plead for an extra .4 points, but found out our teacher counts A- as As regardless. Some of my friends got 89.5s and an A will still appear on their transcript.</p>
<p>At my school, each quater grade is worth 40% of your semester grade and the test is worth 20%. I got an A- one quarter, an A the next, and an A on the test. A few years ago, the teacher would have looked at it and given me the A. But now they put the percentages through the computer, and it gave me an A-.</p>
<p>I had an 89.8 in AP World and she wouldn't round. But then I point out that she never put in my extra credit paper and it bumped me up to a 96%. Yeah...</p>
<p>i had a 92.3 in AP Calculus.. i was .2 away from a A (A"s are 93's for my school) and i totally could hav gotten it cuz our teacher is stupid and just basically gives us the grade he wants to..last semester i techniqually did worse, but he gave me a better grade..!!! i was upset..b/c i did not make the honor list for the first time just b.c of him!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I've actually had the experience of having teachers round my grades 2-3 points lower, which sucks. For example, I haven't gotten lower than a 100 (she has a 2 point bonus), and I got a 98?? That also happened with history the last few years. My history teacher also "averaged" my grades of around 95+ to get 90 (I only had one that was under 95 and it was like an 89)</p>
<p>I just checked my grade online and my teacher did round it. ^_^ I am like over the moon right now. I think he gave it to me because all of my grades on assignments are good.</p>