Have you ever taken a class
Have you ever taken a class
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?
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Re: Have you ever taken a class
I just failed that class.Werf_Must wrote: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?
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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.Anyone can get a good grade in any class if they try hard enough.
Call me an idealist if you want!
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In order for me to get a good grade in that class, I would have had to study 10+ hours for EACH TEST.Darth Fedora wrote:Anyone can get a good grade in any class if they try hard enough.
Call me an idealist if you want!
So, I suppose that falls under try hard enough. But, I wasn't willing to kill myself for that class.
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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.
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.