I’m in FHSU, and I’ve had a few professors now that refuse to correct my grade when I can prove from the textbook that I gave the right answers.
They just tell me no, they’re not going to change it - they don’t even respond to my quotes from the textbook.
In one of my classes now, I don’t have a lot of hope of getting an A because previously my professor completely ignored my emails, and now (different issue) won’t fix my grade - despite proving that I gave the correct answer.
Is this normal for colleges? I don’t think I’m going to do another semester. I don’t get the grade I worked for, and the people I have to deal with are arrogant.
I’m a bit surprised that this is a problem you have encountered multiple times. Maybe the professors have a point that your answer isn’t complete or you are using information from the book but applying it incorrectly.
Textbook refers to a dam as “new china dam” and “three gorges dam.”
About twenty times, it calls it the “three gorges dam.” About three times, it calls it “new china dam.”
If you google “new china dam,” you get “three gorges dam.”
The quiz asked me to name that dam.
Two of the options: “Three gorges dam” and “new china dam.”
I choose “Three gorges dam.” This was incorrect, I lost a point on my grade.
They refused to correct my grade, even after I went to the professor above the teacher.
Talk about setting someone up for failure! They gave NO CRITERIA I could have used to know which name they wanted. I chose the one the textbook used most commonly on this timed test.
Complete idiots.
So this is all online? That makes more sense the with the multiple incidents. I hear that these online teachers don’t answer any emails sometimes. Perhaps in a lecture he repeatedly referred to it as new china dam?
I commend your efforts to get an education as a nontraditional college student.
If it is hard to transfer to another institution, make the best of what you have and realize that an extra point here or there isn’t going to matter in the big picture and long run.
You will meet and probably work for or take classes from insufferable people. This is unfortunately part of life. You need to figure out how to deal with it without annoying professors or bosses too much (because annoying them doesn’t help, even when you are right and they are wrong).
In this case, I am wondering if it is in your best long term interest to just accept the unjust B and continue with your classes.
I’m not losing my 4.0 because my professor’s a monster. I did the work, I deserve an A.
If I do, I plan to quit. I’ll go back to what I was working on before school.
That’s incredibly melodramatic. Nobody’s a “monster” because you disagree with their exam question, and the difference between a 3.9+ and a 4.0 is negligible. If you quit school because of something that unimportant, you’re only shooting yourself in the foot.
She won’t even consider whether I’m correct, she blows me off. As mentioned above, there are a few times I was wrong, and I had a professor show me that. I’m fine with it when I’m wrong, but despite all my proof, I get nowhere with this most recent professor; and single answers are worth a lot in her class.
If it were just one professor, perhaps I’d agree that I’m going overboard - but I get this every semester! I’m tired of it. What would my GPA be if I stopped arguing with all of them!?
On top of that, the guy I have to go through to do research is extremely slow - been 10 weeks since I tried to contact him. No response, despite two reminders (I was informed that he’s normally slow and requires reminders.) no idea how long it’ll take him to finally reply; and even then, I’ll need to send more emails afterward.
I asked if I could go through someone else, but I’ve been given no offers.
No one said that the college experience was a democratic one.
When the prof lectures, his/her ideas and presentation are the only thing that matter. You have to write whatever notes are provided by the professor and regurgitate that information for the tests and quizzes. Anyone can read a book. Anyone can do the work. Why bother to have a professor, with experience in the area, if you only want to be self-taught?
This is not a course on entitlement.
Those of us who have earned our degrees learned those lessons early on. Some professors are fair, some are not; they’re human. They also provide your grade. It’s really all about how you respond and how you handle the situation, in a professional manner, that scores your grade. Bullying the professor and demanding that it’s all or none, just isn’t the way to handle being an adult.
Maybe you need to wait because it doesn’t sound like you’re ready. You may still be able to drop the course without a financial penalty.
@bodangles Unfortunately you responded while I was editing, but I’ll address that: of course I didn’t respond to her that way.
I was blunt with her, but not rude like that; (I was blunt because we had a previous conversation in which she decided to COMPLETELY IGNORE most of my questions)
(Myself)
Professor X,
I didn’t get question 7 wrong.
On page 19, the textbook says: […]
(Professor X)
[…]
(Myself)
Professor X,
How could I have drawn your conclusion from the text, and that D was the correct answer?
You’re equating “healthcare” with doctoring.
They’re not mental doctors either, which was the correct answer, making this an impossible conclusion.
Yeah I would not have worded those emails like that at all.
I help manage social media for a nonprofit. People who write to the page in an accusatory way, or acting like they’re entitled to anything they want from us, get noted down as acting like jerks. We remember that. Just as your professors probably remember that you didn’t say, “Could you please explain the thought process behind Question 7’s answer?” You flipped out and accused them of writing an “impossible” question.
@“aunt bea” Entitlement? If I put in 40 hours at a job and do good work, and do it for an agreed on wage, would you call it “entitlement” when I said I deserve to be paid the agreed wage?
I deserve an A on that quiz because my answer was correct. And they’re getting paid to teach me and grade my work; they’re not holding up their end of the bargain.
