Did good on the final to pull my grade up to an 89.497... is that worthy to round up?
Did good on the final to pull my grade up to an 89.497... is that worthy to round up?
It doesn't hurt to ask. Make sure to let the teacher know how much you liked their class...
If it's in the sciences it probably won't be rounded up, if it's in the arts you might have a chance, but it all depends on the instructor. Don't kiss their ass and say how much you liked the class, just ask if you can have your grade rounded up. Most will round up within .5%, others won't fudge nothin'.
0/10. Please go back to dyestat.
It is a science class...
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If it is a science class, the score should not have that many significant figures unless you had at least 10000 total points in the class. Win your A by pointing out that your grade should in fact be 89.50 or 89.5 or whatever the correct number of sig figs is.
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Did good on the final to pull my grade up to an 89.497... is that worthy to round up?
If I was a teacher, I would scold you and tell you should have worked harder if you had wanted an A
The only categories are labs, tests, finals.
I did fairly well in tests, and well on the final... it is just my lab grade that is low and bringing me down. Should I just ask them if they will round up? I'm frantically searching through my labs to see if there is 1 point that was wrongly taken off of me.
you fail to get an A on your cheat-cheat
Tell her you did real good and that your English is real good so you deserve an A.
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If it is a science class, the score should not have that many significant figures unless you had at least 10000 total points in the class. Win your A by pointing out that your grade should in fact be 89.50 or 89.5 or whatever the correct number of sig figs is.
I feel like this is actually a good idea
Perhaps this explains why you didn't do well in your lab. You got an 89.5%...If you were to round 89.497% "up" it would mean that anyone who got 85% or higher would get the higher grade. That would be stupid. If you were to round it correctly, you would round "down" and you would have gotten an 89%. If you did stupid things like what you are asking in the measurements in your lab, it explains why the lab portion brought you down.
I just got 924/1000 points in one of my classes. 93 is an A, of course. I ended up getting an A-. I didn't ask if there was a chance it could be rounded to an A, so I ended up with an A-. Doesn't hurt to ask, I suppose.
I don't understand why people always think they should have their grades rounded up. #1.Did you do everything you could have done in that class to earn points. #2. Where do you draw the line? 89.5 to 90% Fine but what about the guy that is 89.3? He is close to your arbitrary 89.5 should go up. So he can say 89.5 goes up and I'm only .2 from 89.5 so now I think that should go up. A little later the next guy thinks 89.0 should go up because now 89.3 is rounded up. It is just a continuous thing. Bottom line: Did you get a 90, no, so suck it up and do more/better next time.
Totally true. Cell Bio, sophomore year. I had a 79.something or other and did the math to show that it literally came down to a single question on one quiz. My prof didn't round up.
Ended up taking the prof again later for marine. We got sh*t faced on a trip to our marine lab with a bunch of other students. Good guy, good times.
My point -- ask, but don't hold a grudge if she/he says no. You don't deserve the A but perhaps it'll be given to you. If it's not, you'll survive.
Please`don't ask. Nowadays with email every student seems to be begging every professor for a higher grade. This time of year it becomes a joke. Just take what you got. But if you do please don't tell your professor how great the class was or how it was your favorite class, they can see those cliches
I am a science teacher and this is how I do grades. I offer my students a small bonus assignment at the end of the year. That way if someone does it and it makes their grade close I say listen you did bonus and that didn't bring you up so obviously you weren't that close to start with. If they are close and they don't do the bonus then I say you had the opportunity and YOU chose not to take it. What that means is that I don't have to make a choice on whether I am going to round up or not.
I will say this though. As a science teacher if you brought the sig figs into it I would round it because it shows you have some actual science knowledge and are applying what you have learned.
Also don't beg just ask and let their decision be what it is. Don't hold a grudge and don't argue. I might say no I am not going to round but if you say. Well thank you for allowing me to ask have a happy holiday. I probably when I am sending in grades bump you up because I think you are a pretty level headed person. It is the guy who comes in and throws a fit or begs and pleads that I say no way.
In my classes that would have almost always been an A, as I got rid of a lot of the gimee questions that everyone should get right (what does it tell you). In fact, to use the top 1/3rd of the scale to encompass all grade seems poor strategy. I would always have to tell the students that the tests will be harder but the Ds might go down to 40% and As at least to 85% and if they were really hard, down to 80%.
The other thing that I would do is sit down and evaluate where the class was overall (e.g., was this a better than average, worse than average, much better than average group). I would then have a class average that accorded with those summary assessments. I would compare the summary assessment with my initial class average and adjust the boundaries up or down to move things in the right direction. One implication was that the 'curve' was not entirely 'within' the one class but across classes (i.e., those other classes were part of my reference point). It follows that I could give a class all As if warranted or a D average, although it never came to that except the As in a very small class.
If you did really well on the final, point that out to the prof. Asking isn't going to do any harm. Personally I'd be the asshole prof and wouldn't round up. I look at it like this: if you really wanted that A, you could have put forth the extra 0.05% effort. Next time work your butt off so you don't have to worry about these things.