Have you ever received a grade you didn't deserve?

[zinfamous]

Back in highschool. Got ~D on a rough draft of a paper in AP English. I hated writing that one, so I just gave up and switched 2 paragraphs around. Teacher gave me the highest grade in the class and said it was the best work I'd done. She was insane--always thought I was the spirit of Hemingway re-incarnated in her English class. I think she smoked crack.

Organic Chemistry 1 in college. The professor (also the worthless husband of our worthless chancellor), was a dipshit and nearly everyone failed that calss. Well, should have...My final average in that class was a 67, and thanks to his reputation-saving curve, I got a B. I guess it wasn't that I didn't deserve a high grade so much as no one in that class deserved such a sh1tty instructor. (I finished with a 3.6...so it's not like I couldn't handle a piddly Organic class).

 

[JS80]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/...0,5928437.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

 

[duffman1]

i had a A- then the teacher left and i got a new teacher and in a month or 2 my mark dropped to a C. I definently didnt deserve that

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: dullard
I got one that I'm still bitter about (almost 10 years later)....

Yea, that sucks, but it still was an error on your part that cost you that grade.

 

[thepd7]

LOL I did 2 of 6 assignments in my MIS class this semester (assigments are 30% of final grade), got an A+ on one test and B+ on the other. So A for 70%, 33.33 for 30%, and I somehow end up with an A. At best that should be 80 average. The class was redulous. I am an EE major and it was a junior level business class with no pre-reqs. Some of the questions asked in that class led me to believe that many of the stupidest people in the world decide they can be business majors. Not all of them were stupid though, just a good majority.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
Yea, that sucks, but it still was an error on your part that cost you that grade.

I do realize that, which is why I didn't do anything extreme. I missed the question, and I got the grade as the syllabus stated the grades would be given. Thus, I didn't fight hard, I didn't sue the school, I didn't do anything like what ATOT would probably suggest. I took my lumps and dealt with them. Of course, I do get the right to be bitter and complain every once in a while.

If anything was done fairly in that class, none of this would have happened though.

 

[monk3y]

It's definitely happened to me before. Always in my favor so I don't complain.

 

[alkemyst]

I know someone that passed his CCIE first try and was failed because "no one should pass their first attempt, not even I passed my first attempt"...

It was contested and they ended up passing.

Teacher/instructor was a total elitest pr!ck.

 

[AreaCode707]

I accidentally missed a final and the prof gave me an A anyway. When I got in touch with him, he asked if I wanted to make up the test or just let it go, since he already turned the grades in. I took the test and got an A.

 

[bobsmith1492]

There are four of us in class right now - DSP. The prof told us at the beginning that we'd all get 'A's and 'B's and then proceeded to tell us about his prof back in the day that said the same thing then gave them a ton of stuff from his thesis project and ended up failing half of them... I took that as a warning but will still likely get better than I deserve.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Like that 37 page final I had and I skipped like 15 of them, and I just kept flipping.

Then again the professor said 90% of you will get Bs or better. He got a standing ovation.

Or maybe that multivariable calculus class where I answered 2/8 on the final and somehow got a B...

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: HotChic
I accidentally missed a final and the prof gave me an A anyway. When I got in touch with him, he asked if I wanted to make up the test or just let it go, since he already turned the grades in. I took the test and got an A.

pondering what you did for him prior to the final

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: HotChic
I accidentally missed a final and the prof gave me an A anyway. When I got in touch with him, he asked if I wanted to make up the test or just let it go, since he already turned the grades in. I took the test and got an A.

pondering what you did for him prior to the final

You guys are sick.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: HotChic
I accidentally missed a final and the prof gave me an A anyway. When I got in touch with him, he asked if I wanted to make up the test or just let it go, since he already turned the grades in. I took the test and got an A.

pondering what you did for him prior to the final

You guys are sick.

only one of the guys in my head posts at a time, but I digress.

I was thinking you beat out his erasers and cleaned his boards...perhaps helped in grading.

 

[akshatp]

In Expository Writing at Rutgers back in 94, the minimum amount of papers that had to be turned in to even be considered to get a passing grade was 6. I handed in 4.

When I got a B in the class, I was amazed since I fully expected an F.

A few days later, I was speaking to a friend of mine who was in my class and she has the same last name as I do. She turned in all 6 of her papers and got decent grades on them, yet received an F for the class. OOPS!

She asked me what grade I got and I told her I got a B but hadn't handed in all the papers, and that the professor probably screwed up and switched our grades when he entered them. I offered to clear it up; Then in a second wave of amazement, she said "Don't worry about it, i'll just re-take it again next semester. There is no way you are going to pass that class even if you take it again."

Awesome girl, I wonder where she is now.

 

[dawnbug]

In HS, we had a long-term sub for the last quarter in pre-calc. He really enjoyed chatting with one of my friends, and told her that she reminded him of a girl he was friends with in high school. When I turned in my final on the last day, he verified that she and I were friends.

My third quarter grade was a B, my fourth quarter grade was an A- and my final grade for the semester (the only one that would go on my final transcripts), was an A. Even with that A that I got on the final, my grade shouldn't have been that high.

I didn't complain, though.

 

[herbiehancock]

I absolutely suck at learning foreign languages...........but had to take two semesters of one for my B.S. So, took Spanish figuring it would be one of the easiest to learn. WRONG!! Despite studying almost every night and language lab every day the first semester, I had a "D". But, I'd struck up a conversational relationship with my instructor, a nice lady from Argentina. Got a "C".

Second semester, I took the second class from the same teacher, on purpose. My testing scores were worse this go round........made a 45 on the final, and that was about average for all my scores during this semester. But, since I wasn't a language major and she liked me, my "F" became another "C".


I hate getting below a "B" and rarely ever did, but these were two "C's" I was most grateful for.......and the only grades I have ever been given.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: akshatp
In Expository Writing at Rutgers back in 94, the minimum amount of papers that had to be turned in to even be considered to get a passing grade was 6. I handed in 4.

When I got a B in the class, I was amazed since I fully expected an F.

A few days later, I was speaking to a friend of mine who was in my class and she has the same last name as I do. She turned in all 6 of her papers and got decent grades on them, yet received an F for the class. OOPS!

She asked me what grade I got and I told her I got a B but hadn't handed in all the papers, and that the professor probably screwed up and switched our grades when he entered them. I offered to clear it up; Then in a second wave of amazement, she said "Don't worry about it, i'll just re-take it again next semester. There is no way you are going to pass that class even if you take it again."

Awesome girl, I wonder where she is now.

My head assploded. She must be teh retarded.

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: akshatp
In Expository Writing at Rutgers back in 94, the minimum amount of papers that had to be turned in to even be considered to get a passing grade was 6. I handed in 4.

When I got a B in the class, I was amazed since I fully expected an F.

A few days later, I was speaking to a friend of mine who was in my class and she has the same last name as I do. She turned in all 6 of her papers and got decent grades on them, yet received an F for the class. OOPS!

She asked me what grade I got and I told her I got a B but hadn't handed in all the papers, and that the professor probably screwed up and switched our grades when he entered them. I offered to clear it up; Then in a second wave of amazement, she said "Don't worry about it, i'll just re-take it again next semester. There is no way you are going to pass that class even if you take it again."

Awesome girl, I wonder where she is now.

My head assploded. She must be teh retarded.

Maybe she was just really nice?

 

[novasatori]

Japanese 3 and 4 was really hard, everyone failed or did pretty bad on kanji quizzes and writing. almost all the class received As. The only ones who didn't were the d!cks who talked all class about Anime and stuff, or sat there saying swear words or whatever in class .

Also just this semester I was a few points from an A in a class I really enjoyed, and spent time after class discussing class topics with the teacher. I shot him an e-mail asking for an A, he sent one back the next day, he said "sure thing, you're a good student, and thanks for the comments"

I never really received a grade lower than I didn't deserve, except for Humanities II, man that class was rough. I tried my best but I couldn't do well on the essays I managed a C+, and was really hoping for a B- at the least. The teacher was kind of an ass hat to me though.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: akshatp
Maybe she was just really nice?

Nice is not = to allowing yourself to be totally absolutely raped, that's about being timid and afraid.

When you are wronged you should always stand up.