<p>Ok I have a 92.1 overall grade for this one business class and I need some way to raise my overall grade to a 92.5 for an A which probably means raising my quarter grade 1-2%. I don't have a final for this class and my teacher isn't giving any more graded assignments and when I asked her for extra credit she refused to offer any. </p>
<p>So what should I do to either convince her to give me some extra credit or raise one of my grades? A gift?</p>
<p>Anyone else with an experience like this and got their teacher to raise their grade?</p>
<p>Tell her that you’re having trouble understanding the concepts,and stay after school for help. Stay long enough until she goes to the bathroom, telling you to wait for a minute.</p>
<p>When she’s gone, there’s about a 70% chance that she’ll still be logged in on her computer. </p>
<p>My advice is to charm your teacher. I’d try to come across as an honest, hardworking student who tried and tried but just couldn’t get that one type of problem on the test, or maybe that one homework assignment that you “tried” to do, but could never figure out. Tell your teacher that that class was your toughest class and that you participated as much as you could. </p>
<p>Or another way to go about it is being mature and acknowledging. </p>
<p>Just admit that you could have done better, but that in the end, you shouldn’t be labeled as lesser than an A-student, when you understood the material. </p>
<p>Don’t whine or beg for grade. Teachers hate that.</p>
<p>An A for him/her may be a 93%, so his/her current grade might be a B.</p>
<p>I’d say **** it. I tried hard convincing my AP Gov teacher to change my 89 to a 90. But she’s a biased ***** who only likes Jews and people who talk about politics all the time. Goodbye perfect HS GPA.</p>
<p>People are mean and don’t care, and won’t change that even if you try to schmooze them. Just deal with it, kid.</p>
<p>lol at ShampooSwallower. At my school (private school) I could have easily done that.
You see, the teachers trust me and let me use there computers. sometimes they forget to log out of the gradebook.</p>
<p>But I would never do that, I have some integrity aha. :)</p>
<p>What’s worked for me in persuading an extra boost: Tell them why you deserve that extra boost. Have you worked your ass off? Turned work on time? Did it thoroughly? Understand the material? I’ve had a lot of teachers take that into consideration.</p>
<p>In fact, this semester, I screwed up a huge project in my honors physics class. Based on calculations I should have gotten a B- (terrible i know), but seeing as my tests were always the best or second best in the class, i tied for best on the final, and overall know the material better than the class, he gave me an A-. He knows I like physics, that I’m a good student, and that I know the material. He took that into consideration, and that’s why i got the grade I got. Lol… He called me the stupidest smart kid at our school for that project. (It was to build a roller coaster… apparently I fail at building)</p>
<p>Btw I’m Jewish and Romanian. WHAT NOW HATERS??</p>
<p>Hm… you should ask her what ways you can raise the grade, instead of just guessing. Work hard in homework and during class, and maybe she’ll tell you. </p>
<p>Approach her calmly and just explain your situation. Tell her that those few fractions of a point just mean you didn’t get a few homework problems or quiz questions. Don’t tell her that you were really busy this semester (sports, ECs) because then she’ll feel like her class isn’t a priority. Say that you understand if she won’t change your grade, but that you’re so close that your comprehension of class material is a pretty much equal to a 93% student. Then talk with her about something you learned in class, something you really understood (but only if she’s the kind of teacher who would have that kind of conversation without thinking you’re a suck-up) so she knows you get the class.</p>