<p>Ok..I'm really ****ed about what my calc teacher did. It is at least a %92 to get an A in the class. </p>
<p>I got a 98 on my final test and my final grade is 91.87. I checked my grades and I saw that he gave me an AB. </p>
<p>I don't get why some teacher do this. I don't understand!!! Is it really hard to raise a grade by 0.13?!!! Why do they purposely want to fail or give bad grades to students? It's not like I'm a bad student or anything. I showed up everyday and did the required work. It just ****es me off. I worked my ass off for this class because I'm going for civil engineering and my math grades really matter.</p>
<p>Did you guys face teachers like this? Is there any way to make them change their decision?</p>
<p>I’d hardly doubt you can change his decision. If he does it for you then he would have to do it for other people. Then another kid comes up and wants a .15 rounded up and so on.</p>
<p>In this English class I had this year, I had this grad student. Before, I was told I was hanging around a B+ A- range, even though the papers I wrote were all A papers. The only place I could think of where I got bogged down was during this one stupid presentation where I got a 15/20. The teacher didn’t even give me points. She just gave me a f***ing range.</p>
<p>Our final was a portfolio, where we revise our previous papers… It’s easier to just call it BS. I worked tirelessly on it. She even commented that my cover letter sounded great. In the end I ended up with an A-, even though I was probably the best writer in the whole class. I don’t even know how many points I got on anything. She probably got pi55ed off at me because I didn’t take the class seriously.</p>
<p>careless teachers f_ing up our grades. what are you going to do right. Not that it’s that big of a deal that I got an A- instead of an A. It sucks to know some of these teachers can’t teach worth ***** and can’t grade worth *****. I’m pretty sure my ability as a writer regressed after going through that class.</p>
<p>Grow up. It’s not like you failed. You got a B. Big deal. I’ve never had a problem with Prof’s rounding down, but I’ve never been absolute borderline. Remember, B is above average and A is excellent. A lot of students think A’s are above average, not above and beyond. I would think a math Prof would be among the least likely to round a grade…</p>
<p>The thing that upsets me the most is I got an AB with 91.87. I wouldn’t be upset if it was like 88 or something. I guess he has some daddy issues but who knows…</p>
<p>^You’re right. But he did earn a very-uber-close-almost-really-really-nearly-an-A B. But since that doesn’t go on a transcript, you think the teacher could help him out. Often times it takes a lot more determination to get to almost-A’s than to get those high A’s.</p>
<p>He said 92+ was an A. You didn’t get 92+. It should not be a surprise that you did not get an A, because you did not meet the requirements for one. </p>
<p>Teachers who round up are particularly nice, not the other way around (teachers who don’t round up being particularly mean) as you imply. </p>
<p>In other news, you should tell your teacher you think he “has daddy issues” - I’m sure that would give him a good laugh.</p>
<p>@Yakyu Spirits – Yeah, but I agree with OP, a 91.87% is basically a 92%, unless you want to be the world’s biggest ******* about it, I think EVERY single professor I know would round it up. What’s that… one point in the whole class? Two? Maybe three at the most? You people who keep saying “grow up” seem to forget that NORMAL people set their grade cutoffs at 90%, so anything higher is an A, it sounds to me like you guys are the ones who need to “grow up” knight bloody templars, it’s not always cut as black and white as that. </p>
<p>This guy was .13 away from the definition of an A in the class, and 1.87% over the ACTUAL definition of “A” he showed up to class on time and did the requisite work. He EARNED the A, the fact that he didn’t get it makes the professor a jackass.</p>
<p>Thanks, MedSchHopeful and Itachirumon. That’s why I am mad/upset.</p>
<p>AB is like an A-. You get 3.5/4</p>
<p>AB is a bad grade compared to A. I wouldn’t be complaining if I was getting a 91 or even 91.50 but after 91.50 you assume teachers would round that to 92. To be honest if I was a teacher that’s what I would do and I’m not saying that because of my situation. It just helps the student both academically and mentally. Right now I have no kind feelings for any of my teachers. I feel like they’re all the same.</p>
<p>^Exactly my point, in a world where there’s no displayed difference between an 80.00 and an 89.99 (or in your case, 91.99) then there’s really no way to weed out the person who coasted along and got a B and someone who worked their ass off and hit borderline A. That’s why GOOD professors, who realize this, realize 91.87 is essentially 92 and therefore deserving of an A grade. Yakyu and mathnerd are just really immature little children who are gonna grow up to be wonderful knights templar.</p>
<p>Ok now that I think about it, this really is pathetic. An A- is fine chief. It’s one god damn A-. If you’ve got such a defeatist attitude over one grade I’d hate to see your reaction to your first failed job interview.</p>
<p>I think your situation is dumb, but the reasoning is right. I personally always believe in rounding, because for us, an A- is a 3.7, and a B+ is a 3.3, so if I get an 89.9 and my teacher sticks me with the B+, I just lost 0.4 GPA points, even though I didn’t do 0.4 worse than the person who got the 90.0. Plus it can be really arbitrary in college when to get points; if you only have 4 or 5 grades, getting a 77 on a test vs. a 78 (or whatever) could be that difference in percentage points, even though you didn’t do any discernibly worse than the latter.</p>
<p>@DCH I was gonna leave out the “B = Failure” thing although I can see he’s being kind of a drama queen about it, A-/B+ is still fine so he IS being too dramatic about that but I really didn’t like the attitudes of some of the others who were being almost more immature with their snippy little comments</p>
<p>One time I had a 92.5, which was the highest percentage grade in the class. I got stuck with an A- (A is 93), whereas the typical teacher’s pet 100% effort straight-A girl who had a 92 got rounded up to an A. If I knew that at the time I would have flipped out. </p>
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I bet the teacher would have rather seen you get the 92. I have a lot of respect for teachers who don’t bend the rules, even though sometimes I might be upset with their decision. You have to draw the line somewhere. Makes a lot of sense to draw it right at 92 (or 93 for my high school). </p>
<p>Anyways stuff tends to work itself out in the end. If anything use this experience to motivate you. Don’t give the teacher an option next time.</p>