Will a 63.02 be grounded to D

[Anonymous]

if a student has 63.03 F In Biology will the grade change to D since is only half a point away from D?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if a student has 63.03 F In Biology will the grade change to D since is only half a point away from D?

No.

[Anonymous]

Did you learn rounding in second grade?

[Anonymous]

No.

Related to this subject of rounding, my kid was less than 0.5 from an A in a class. They had turned in all their homework and participated in class.

After the final, my kid was still around a tenth from an A.

They looked over the test after the final and found an error on one of the questions the teacher had written. They were the only kid in the class who reviewed the final after it was graded.

They shared the error with the teacher who corrected the mistake by throwing out the incorrect question for all of the students.

My kid asked if they could get that last 10th of a point as extra credit for taking the time to actually read over the test and find that mistake.

The teacher said no.

Long story short, if the teachers won't round up by a tenth of a point for a kid who turned in all the work all year and took the time to review the final, then I doubt they will round up for a D student.

Your best option is probably to make your kid sit at the kitchen atble each night between now and the end of the year to do his homework with you looking over his shoulder to make sure he is not on tiktok or youtube. Double check his work daily. Make him study bio every night. It is almost all rote memorization so studying will help. Make sure he actually does all the homework and most importantly, submit it.

That will have better odds of raising a D minus to a regular D or maybe D plus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you learn rounding in second grade?

+1

Rounding is taught in 2nd grade, and clearly OP failed at it. And will fail biology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if a student has 63.03 F In Biology will the grade change to D since is only half a point away from D?

Grading rule depends on the teacher and the school. Have the student ask if failed and missing work can be resubmitted to increase the grade.

HS teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

Related to this subject of rounding, my kid was less than 0.5 from an A in a class. They had turned in all their homework and participated in class.

After the final, my kid was still around a tenth from an A.

They looked over the test after the final and found an error on one of the questions the teacher had written. They were the only kid in the class who reviewed the final after it was graded.

They shared the error with the teacher who corrected the mistake by throwing out the incorrect question for all of the students.

My kid asked if they could get that last 10th of a point as extra credit for taking the time to actually read over the test and find that mistake.

The teacher said no.

Long story short, if the teachers won't round up by a tenth of a point for a kid who turned in all the work all year and took the time to review the final, then I doubt they will round up for a D student.

Your best option is probably to make your kid sit at the kitchen atble each night between now and the end of the year to do his homework with you looking over his shoulder to make sure he is not on tiktok or youtube. Double check his work daily. Make him study bio every night. It is almost all rote memorization so studying will help. Make sure he actually does all the homework and most importantly, submit it.

That will have better odds of raising a D minus to a regular D or maybe D plus.

If my kid got the answer correctly as written, I would have challenged the grade instead of accepting the test getting thrown out.

[Anonymous]

No. A D in FCPS is a 64. The gradebook is set to round up at 63.5. You are asking for a full additional point.

Your only hope is that since there is a lot of paperwork and communication logs for Fs the teacher is too tired to do it all and marks it as a D to avoid doing the extra work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No.

Related to this subject of rounding, my kid was less than 0.5 from an A in a class. They had turned in all their homework and participated in class.

After the final, my kid was still around a tenth from an A.

They looked over the test after the final and found an error on one of the questions the teacher had written. They were the only kid in the class who reviewed the final after it was graded.

They shared the error with the teacher who corrected the mistake by throwing out the incorrect question for all of the students.

My kid asked if they could get that last 10th of a point as extra credit for taking the time to actually read over the test and find that mistake.

The teacher said no.

Long story short, if the teachers won't round up by a tenth of a point for a kid who turned in all the work all year and took the time to review the final, then I doubt they will round up for a D student.

Your best option is probably to make your kid sit at the kitchen atble each night between now and the end of the year to do his homework with you looking over his shoulder to make sure he is not on tiktok or youtube. Double check his work daily. Make him study bio every night. It is almost all rote memorization so studying will help. Make sure he actually does all the homework and most importantly, submit it.

That will have better odds of raising a D minus to a regular D or maybe D plus.

If my kid got the answer correctly as written, I would have challenged the grade instead of accepting the test getting thrown out.

A question was thrown out, not the entire test. Ultimately, we don’t let parents make those decisions.

[Anonymous]

No it’s an F.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if a student has 63.03 F In Biology will the grade change to D since is only half a point away from D?

Holy math fail, Batman. Also Biology fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No.

Related to this subject of rounding, my kid was less than 0.5 from an A in a class. They had turned in all their homework and participated in class.

After the final, my kid was still around a tenth from an A.

They looked over the test after the final and found an error on one of the questions the teacher had written. They were the only kid in the class who reviewed the final after it was graded.

They shared the error with the teacher who corrected the mistake by throwing out the incorrect question for all of the students.

My kid asked if they could get that last 10th of a point as extra credit for taking the time to actually read over the test and find that mistake.

The teacher said no.

Long story short, if the teachers won't round up by a tenth of a point for a kid who turned in all the work all year and took the time to review the final, then I doubt they will round up for a D student.

Your best option is probably to make your kid sit at the kitchen atble each night between now and the end of the year to do his homework with you looking over his shoulder to make sure he is not on tiktok or youtube. Double check his work daily. Make him study bio every night. It is almost all rote memorization so studying will help. Make sure he actually does all the homework and most importantly, submit it.

That will have better odds of raising a D minus to a regular D or maybe D plus.

If my kid got the answer correctly as written, I would have challenged the grade instead of accepting the test getting thrown out.

The problem could not be answered the way it was written because there was something flawed in the calculations or formula used by the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the grading system used at your kid’s school. Ours uses skills based grading and if your kid is showing an upward trend in a science class, it will get rounded up. And they get to use a cheat sheet with notes front & back in AP BIO. This is FCPS equal outcomes for all kids; no one fails and everyone learns less.

[Anonymous]

It takes more work for teachers to fail students than give them D’s. They often have to verify what type of help they gave, how many student and parent contacts, opportunities for retakes, etc. You kid most likely is going to get a D.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if a student has 63.03 F In Biology will the grade change to D since is only half a point away from D?

Grading rule depends on the teacher and the school. Have the student ask if failed and missing work can be resubmitted to increase the grade.

HS teacher

Thanks,
Trying to get him to study and get help serve ADHD and in team taught classes, so it’s not the easiest