<p>I am ranked 1/55. The class was difficult. My average is a very high B+. Do teachers HAVE to give a certain number of students an A? Particularly top students?</p>
<p>Are you in college or high school? I think in college they have to give A's.</p>
<p>College profs, if they're tenured, don't have to do **** when it comes to handing out grades...</p>
<p>You need to check the syllabus and see what the outlined grading policies are. At my school that was the end all and be all of grade appeals. However if the prof said they reserved the right to scale grades up or down, then you're pretty much at their mercy.</p>
<p>But the bigger issue here isn't whether or not you'll get the A...no the big issue is that you need to calm down about grades in college. GPA doesn't matter that much unless you are planning on professional school (law, med, dent, pharm, etc). Even if you are going into grad school, then grades not in that subject you're going to grad school don't particularly matter and the respective admissions test is more important anyway.</p>
<p>how important exactly is one's GPA in college? I need some motivation to keep up my grades? I am a physics major and planning to go to graduate school. So what are good grades for, if they don't matter that much in grad school admission? I know that high school's GPA was more important than SAT''s. Is this still true with GRE's?</p>
<p>I think the OP is in high school...with a class of only 55 that's my assumption. And high school teachers don't have to give a certain amount of A's unless it's some funky rule your school district has. </p>
<p>If the OP is in college...read what Bigredmed wrote</p>
<p>I'm in college...my class is actually only about 20 students. The other class of this course is about 25 students. I thought most proff. curve it so that the highest gpa will get an A.</p>
<p>Oh gotcha....I was thinking like a graduating class of 55 but I see your point now. I'm not used to a "1/55" referring to within a course section.</p>
<p>the highest grade in the class will probably be an A, but the professor is under no obligation to make it that way.</p>
<p>Yeah, there is not necessarily a curve. None of my classes have a curve like that (in some of them i doubt anyone got an A :) )</p>
<p>why... dont you ask your professor??</p>
<p>In my class of 12 one student has an A. I am one of two people with a C (so far, depending on the final... I know I won't be higher than a C).
I'm really, really hoping that the professor will decide she can't have a class with only 3 people passing and curve or weight it differently.
It's not likely though.</p>