Have you ever taken a class

[Werf_Must]

Where you feel like your grade is completely out of your control (for example the class is 100% tests and the tests are impossibly hard and based on obscure facts from the book) or just that they don't return any work or provide a way to check your grades as you go along in the semester?

[yellow m&m]

Where you feel like your grade is completely out of your control (for example the class is 100% tests and the tests are impossibly hard and based on obscure facts from the book) or just that they don't return any work or provide a way to check your grades as you go along in the semester?

I just failed that class.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Aww man... I was looking forward to answering the question "Have you ever had a class". But I have had one of those. It was known as A.P. History.

[bobtheenchantedone]

My D&C class is like that. There are two ways to earn points: being in class having done the reading, and the two tests.

[Darth Fedora]

Anyone can get a good grade in any class if they try hard enough.
Call me an idealist if you want!

[Tao]

Anyone can get a good grade in any class if they try hard enough.
Call me an idealist if you want!

Agreed. I have yet to tackle a class that felt that out of control. Grades are often reflections of time dedicated, which is why I loathe the thought of ever landing a 4.0.

[A Mom, but not yours]

Anyone can get a good grade in any class if they try hard enough.
Call me an idealist if you want!

I thought that, too. Then I did a semester of student teaching. And had a student that I honestly wasn't sure could pass my class, no matter how hard she worked at the material. I'm thinking that I'd have to add the word almost before anyone.

[yellow m&m]

Anyone can get a good grade in any class if they try hard enough.
Call me an idealist if you want!

In order for me to get a good grade in that class, I would have had to study 10+ hours for EACH TEST.
So, I suppose that falls under try hard enough. But, I wasn't willing to kill myself for that class.

[Katya]

Anyone can get a good grade in any class if they try hard enough.
Call me an idealist if you want!

That's a recipe for making a perfectionist miserable.

[Portia]

I have had individual assignments where the grading seemed arbitrary, but most my grades (excellent and horrible), I've earned.

One exception I can think of was a rather bad grade because my professor opted not to read my final paper. It was submitted a few hours late (maybe . . . she kept changing the deadline), but well before the grade submission deadline. I talked to the dept. chair, and obtained the grade I wanted.

So I would just talk to your professor. It can't hurt. Nothing might change--besides, I think college is more about the education than the hundredths place of your GPA.