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12-08-2006, 04:22 AM
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Re: Lowest mark you\'ve ever recieved for a final grade?
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[ QUOTE ] what's with all you [censored] whos lowest grade is like B+? [/ QUOTE ] Degree mill. Yes I'm bitter and jealous. [/ QUOTE ] Grade inflation is a huge issue in US colleges, especially amongst Ivy League schools. 
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#42
12-08-2006, 10:58 AM
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Re: Lowest mark you\'ve ever recieved for a final grade?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] what's with all you [censored] whos lowest grade is like B+? [/ QUOTE ] Degree mill. Yes I'm bitter and jealous. [/ QUOTE ] Grade inflation is a huge issue in US colleges, especially amongst Ivy League schools. [/ QUOTE ] Think about it this way though, who goes to those Ivy League Schools? 90% of the time its because they did well in High School (10% because of donations/parents/money etc). So wouldn't it make sense that the kids who were successful in high school are also successful in college? I mean if everyone in your class is getting 90+ on tests/papers, why should anyone fail? Compare that to a local community college or state school where the standards to attend are not very high (top 50%) and they received B's & C's in HS, wouldn't they keep getting B's & C's in college? I didn't go to an Ivy League school, but I did go to a very good school where most classes I had no one failed, and most had B's or better. It's because everyone in the class cares about their grade, studies, and works hard, not because of inflated grades.
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#43
12-08-2006, 11:03 AM
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How is that even possible? If it's multiple choice with, say, 5 choices per question, wouldn't you get 20% just by guessing? [/ QUOTE ] A-AF = A,B,C,D,E,F,AB,AC,AD,AE,AF 11 choices
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#44
12-08-2006, 01:35 PM
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Degree mill. Yes I'm bitter and jealous. [/ QUOTE ] probably a better school than yours. [/ QUOTE ] Maybe. What's your degree in? Math? [/ QUOTE ] math, yes. honestly i don't really care if it's better, but it's certainly no degree mill.
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#45
12-08-2006, 01:38 PM
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Re: Lowest mark you\'ve ever recieved for a final grade?
the other thing with ivy league schools is that a lot of the kids who get in did well in high school by sucking up to teachers and complaining about grades. this behavior continues rather successfully in college.
i know this to be true both in the high school and college end of things. i personally didn't care enough about grades in high school to ever try to get a B+ bumped to an A- or an A- to an A, so i get decent but not great grades. some of my friends went and bitch about everything and prob bumped their GPA up a point or two. then they get to college and on top of the normal curves, everyone is going to ask the profs for extensions and extra points here and there and most of the profs and tas are prob too focused on their research to really care, particularly because the status quo seems to just be to give in.
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#46
12-08-2006, 02:35 PM
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the other thing with ivy league schools is that a lot of the kids who get in did well in high school by sucking up to teachers and complaining about grades. this behavior continues rather successfully in college. i know this to be true both in the high school and college end of things. i personally didn't care enough about grades in high school to ever try to get a B+ bumped to an A- or an A- to an A, so i get decent but not great grades. some of my friends went and bitch about everything and prob bumped their GPA up a point or two. then they get to college and on top of the normal curves, everyone is going to ask the profs for extensions and extra points here and there and most of the profs and tas are prob too focused on their research to really care, particularly because the status quo seems to just be to give in. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know about most, but definitely some of them did. I thought it was demeaning for people to cry to keep their 4.0 because they are getting a B+ (yes, I saw this in HS). My college classes didn't have a whole lot of that going on though, but most of my friends were stoners so we didn't care a whole lot about that extra .3 GPA boost.
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#48
12-09-2006, 06:11 AM
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Re: Lowest mark you\'ve ever recieved for a final grade?
I got an F in a class that I thought I had dropped but apparently hadn't. It was a study abroad class too, and the program I went to closed that year so there was no way to get rid of it. I went to class the first two times and the professor wasn't there, told the people in the study abroad office about it and said I just didn't want to take the class anymore (there were no forms to sign). Then I get the grade for the class literally a year later along with an evaluation saying "only came to class twice." Note I had never seen this guy so I don't know he could have known that.
I got a C in biology freshman year despite getting an A on the final. The weekly tests were based on lectures only, which I never went to or slept through, the final was based on the book. Biology has to be the most boring thing ever, thank god I got out of that.
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#49
12-09-2006, 06:30 AM
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Re: Lowest mark you\'ve ever recieved for a final grade?
Somewhere in the fifties. Forgot to turn in an assignment that was worth 10 percent of my final grade.
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#50
12-09-2006, 07:37 AM
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Re: Lowest mark you\'ve ever recieved for a final grade?
F in anatomy lab. To be fair, I stopped going to that class with about 3 classes left and I also missed the final because it was only a 1 credit course and I didn't give a crap at the time lol. I got an A- in the anatomy lecture, I don't know why lab was so hard for me.
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