Final grades for my history class have been posted today! I made a 91 on the final exam and subsequently finished the course with a 94.13%. However, in my school’s online grade book, it’s reporting that grade as an “A-”. I checked my professor’s syllabus and an “A” is anything from a 93-100. In the syllabus, she also states that if a student has two or more absences, their entire grade will drop by one point (A to B, B to C, etc). I have only missed one class, so I’m baffled as to why that says an “A-”.
Should I email my professor and ask her about this? Is it possible that she nudged my grade down because of that one absence?
@happy1 Hey, thanks for responding. The final exam is 25% of my final grade. According to her syllabus, the specified weight of each component of my grade is set.
@TomSrOfBoston Yes, attendance and participation was 10% of our grade. We received a hundred for every day that we were present in class. I received a zero for that one day that I was absent but it only pulled my grade for that category down to the a 97%. All other days I received hundreds.