I add up all my grades and I'm basically failing the class
but the teacher gave me passing grade. If he made mistake I don't want to tell him because he'll fail me or is he just being nice and given points away
Should I just leave it and be happy with my passing grade? I don't know why I feel like I don't deserve that grade but at the same time, I don't want to fail
2007-07-26 05:22:38 · 8 answers · asked by Pretty 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
you sound like a good kid! Maybe she added points for effort. Take it as a learning lesson and move on, she knows what she did. Next time turn in ALL homework, even if you did not understand it. Ask for help. Stay after school if you can. Consider it one free pass, move on and dont let it happen again. Well, thats what I would tell my kid anyway. Good luck!
2007-07-26 05:28:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes the teacher gives you the raw score on the top of your test to give you a wake up call and then enters the scaled score in the book (for example, if the highest score was a 90, everybody might have been granted an additional 10), The final grade is a mix of many things. Any of my students with a grade average of 63.1 or above AND who were trying, got a "mercy D" (D was for grades 65-69.5). Chances are that the teacher did not make a mistake. That grade was on purpose.
2007-07-26 07:31:22 · answer #2 · answered by MICHAEL R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes teachers/professors apply a one-tailed curve to grades at the end of the semester, even if they didn't tell you that they might earlier in the semester. Basically this can happen if the teacher believes that the entire class did more poorly than expected on something that was beyond their control. For instance, if I was out sick and had a guest lecturer on a major component of my exam, and I see in grading that the students did uncharacteristically bad on that portion of the exam, I may curve it a few points to bring it back into the realm of normal for the rest of their work.
In other words, don't worry about it. You might ask your teacher sometime, but he won't change your grade.
2007-07-27 02:01:44 · answer #3 · answered by Brad H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the teacher doesn't believe in the stigma of failing.
A D says a lot on it's own.
Giving a failure to a student can do more harm than good. It can send them down the road to failure straight across the board.
A D can be a wake up call.
The teacher may have realized you had a brain, you just didn't apply it very much in their class.
Ever heard the term A for effort.
2007-07-26 07:05:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes teachers give "weight" to categories. This means I might count projects and writing more than i would count homework. In fact in my classes last year I only gave homework a 10 percent weight.
To accurately know your grade, you'd have to know the category weights as well as the points you earned on your assignments.
You can ask your teacher how he weighs your grades, or you can bring up your thoughts to him.
good luck!
2007-07-26 08:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by eastacademic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the teachers I have had won't change mistakes they make in favor of a student, so even if your teacher made a mistake and he knows it, he may not change it.
2007-07-26 07:49:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That has happened to me before and i brought it up to the teacher and he just looked at me and then said ur welcome.. some times you will find a teacher that bases ur final grade by how hard ur making an attempt in they're class..just take it for what it is...
congratulations!!!
2007-07-26 05:39:06 · answer #7 · answered by ♫christy♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just leave it the teacher may take into consideration that maybe he could see you were really trying and working hard or that you did all your homework and showed up everyday.
2007-07-26 05:27:16 · answer #8 · answered by Cory 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋