MY son got a 89.55 B+ in a course........

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Anonymous wrote:Ha! That's nothing. I got a 93 B. The graded down on the curve after the fact. Spoke to the dean nothing I could do. Academia is so corrupt.

Sophomore year of college, I failed a class with an 88.5% thanks to the curve. The passing cutoff was set at 89. Had to retake it the next year. I got a 95 - the passing grade that year was 73. I hate curves. You know the material or don’t, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else knows.

I truly don’t understand what OP or the kid hope to achieve by posting on TikTok.

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Anonymous wrote:There have to be cut offs with each grade. He earned a B+. Let’s reverse it. He could have studied harder. He could have read and re-read the chapters and taken notes better. Did he attend every class and sit in the front and raise his hand every class? The grade is on him! Don’t make the professor out to be a bad guy. Also, you want to show respect to your professor, not try to shame them on the internet. His next job prospect will see that attitude and it will bite him in the butt even harder. He earned the 89% and he should settle down. The A’s were probably 90-100. And, the B’s were probably 80-89.9999. Yes, it stings that he was close, but this is fair to have a grade cut-off. Let it be incentive to work harder next term. But, please discourage TikTok nonsense. That will end up making him look bad and nothing goes away from the internet. It’s always there. Always. Teach your kid to be better than that.

I would never hire someone who complained about grades on tiktok. Instead of posting here you should stop him from doing that.

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Anonymous wrote:As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.

No, I’m a 30-year prof & I round up too. The people who think there is a significant difference between 89.5 & 90 are the same sort of too-trusting-in-statistics twits who think a college US News ranks #15 is necessarily appreciably better than one ranked #20.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you post about your bad grade on Tik tok?

Because the way to get someone to do a favor for you is to whine about said person on the internet, of course.

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In the age of AI complaining on TikTok is very unwise. By the time he graduates HR departments will be using AI to scan every post a person makes and weed out applicants with unacceptable qualities.

His post complaining about a B+ will be far more damaging than the B+.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine was a master of this exact grade in high school. Cost him a whole tier of colleges.

Mine too. So frustrating to see, but those are the grades he deserved.

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He had the entire semester to do something more. The time to do something has passed.

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Our public high school district has a written policy that grades are to be rounded, so an 89.5 would be an A. Does your kids college have that written policy? If so, he has a case. If not, he does not.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine was a master of this exact grade in high school. Cost him a whole tier of colleges.

Sadly, same.

At least 9-10 quarter grades between 89.3 and 90.2, I’d estimate. And at least 1/2 of them were between 89.30 and 84.49 … every last one due to multiple assignments that were completed but not submitted … refused to seek out the teacher to explore whether anything could be done - every single time. The opposite of the kid who advocates the cover off the ball for their own interests.

Play with fire, expect to get burned.

I would argue then he found the college he deserved. Advocating for yourself is going to be one of the most important tools in his academic toolbox. Its 100% on him and he likely will end up where he should be as a result. You as his parent can't want it more then he does.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there anything he can do? He emailed the professor To boost his grade to an A-. no respond from the professor he emailed the Dean and will be posting this on Tiktok.. Is there anything else he can do?

I'm going with Troll but also I sure hope he didn't ask to have his grade boosted. Hopefully, he also spent time throughout the semester getting to know the professor. Ultimately its students like yours that make a professor less inclined to go the extra mile.

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Anonymous wrote:Our public high school district has a written policy that grades are to be rounded, so an 89.5 would be an A. Does your kids college have that written policy? If so, he has a case. If not, he does not.

This is the correct answer.

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Happened to DD this year in HS - her first B ever. This was an English of the sad part is there is no feedback on what she needed to do better, even when I asked. She responded by getting (to date) a 99% this quarter so that the semester grade is an A.
We tried to coach it as a growing experience. You can get, at least in her mind, a bad grade in life still goes on.

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Anonymous wrote:Ha! That's nothing. I got a 93 B. The graded down on the curve after the fact. Spoke to the dean nothing I could do. Academia is so corrupt.

Sophomore year of college, I failed a class with an 88.5% thanks to the curve. The passing cutoff was set at 89. Had to retake it the next year. I got a 95 - the passing grade that year was 73. I hate curves. You know the material or don’t, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else knows.

I truly don’t understand what OP or the kid hope to achieve by posting on TikTok.

That's crazy! My objection was that at no time was that the stated grading scale nor was I given feedback that would indicate I should improve. They really didn't care. All they cared about was how they looked "hard" on paper to the university.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you post about your bad grade on Tik tok?

Mi would move him to a b- for this. Blackmail? He should be expelled if he does this.

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I assumed this thread was a joke, no?