got a 60% on an exam; my friend has the exact same answers,he gets 96% (pics/compare)

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<p>Okay this is worth 20% of my grade… and it’s a three credit hour class. I’m seriously freaking out and raging beyond belief right now. I just got a 60% on my midterm exam. My friend, who sat behind me, got a 96% on it even though we put roughly the same exact answers (heck, we even studied together). </p>

<p>Please take a look at this cc, and I’ll let you decide. I’m seriously at a loss of words right now. Note: We took the midterm on laptops and uploaded it to him in class, so this is why we have access to our exams. I feel like someone kicked me low, and just left me there… bleeding… withering away like the sunset… (Note: he even got number #3 wrong, the answer is C – and I got it right). </p>

<p>This can’t be real life… there’s got to be a glitch in the system. As you can see, I’ve put the exact same answers as him (give or take). Either way, I shouldn’t have gotten a 60% on it – a 90% at least. </p>

<p>my email to my professor
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<p>Heres my exam
[Mid</a> Term Exam Upload](<a href=“Midterm Exam Instructions: From 1-5, Each of Them Is 5 Points. From 6-9, Each of Them Is 10 Points. No.10 Is 25 Points | PDF | The United States | Hawaii”>Midterm Exam Instructions: From 1-5, Each of Them Is 5 Points. From 6-9, Each of Them Is 10 Points. No.10 Is 25 Points | PDF | The United States | Hawaii)</p>

<p>Heres my friends exam
[Midterm</a> Exam Upload](<a href=“Midterm Exam Upload | PDF | Philippines | Asia”>Midterm Exam Upload | PDF | Philippines | Asia)</p>

<p>You don’t even have to read everything. You can just look at one or two and already know we are SAYING THE EXACT SAME THINGS.</p>

<p>Please tell me how I got a 60% on this and how he got a 96%…</p>

<p>getting a B in this class would drop my gpa down to a 3.83</p>

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<p>One huge difference is you used bullet points and your friend didn’t. That is probably why you did so poorly.</p>

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<p>No, that has nothing to do with it. It was stated that we could use bullet points. I know his looks really neat and fancy, but all he’s really doing is reiterating what the question said and incorporating it into his answer.</p>

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<p>One important point in writing is ensuring that someone reading JUST the answer has an idea of what’s being asked. Also, I don’t think the forums like external links, just an fyi.</p>

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<p>Probably just a mistake of some kind. You’ll sort it out when you talk to your professor.</p>

<p>As a side note, you may want to be a little more professional in your emails with a prof, unless you know each other well.</p>

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<p>I can assure you that this is real life; you just got hit by “life.”</p>

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<p>"I feel like someone kicked me low, and just left me there… bleeding… withering away like the sunset… "</p>

<p>Wow. </p>

<p>Talk to the Professor, face to face, and talk to her about it. Their opinion is the only one that really matters. </p>

<p>Your friends essays are better written, and is connected. The directions don’t say whether writing style is graded.</p>

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<p>Writing styles/formats aside…</p>

<p>Do I have a case? Do I legitimately have a case here?</p>

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<p>I really don’t get why you’re posting this here before you’ve even spoken to the professor about this.</p>

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<p>You deserve your grade for that sentence alone.</p>

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<p>On a more serious note, I don’t think you have a case. I’m pretty sure when they said bullet points were acceptable, they wanted you to explain each point and connect it to the question instead of just listing it. Throw in all the grammatical and capitalization errors, and a passing grade seems fair.</p>

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<p>It’s worth asking about. Otherwise, I have to agree with tobaccoNchocolat.</p>

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<p>Are you kidding? I wouldn’t have passed you.</p>

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<p>Just because something is written and turned in online does not mean you can be totally lax with your grammar and explanations.</p>

<p>You were lazy on your midterm answers. You deserve the grade.</p>

<p>Seriously you missed at least 90% of capitalization and you expected a high grade?</p>

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<p>Note that I wouldn’t have passed your friend either. If writing like that earns a 96% then I’m ****ing Shakespeare.</p>

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<p>hm i can’t seeem to see it. however, that “what you just said” quote LMAO. that thing is taped to my english teacher’s podium lmao.</p>

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<p>After looking over both it’s clear that your friend deserved their grade but to be honest your answers were very sloppy and sometimes just danced around the answer instead of clearly answering it. To say that your friend got “the exact same answers” is very misleading because it’s clear that your friend used different examples to some questions and was able to more clearly state their answers. </p>

<p>Like others have said, though, you need to work on correct capitalization and grammar. Honestly, your writing on this is very unprofessional. It sends a silent, if unintentional, “I could care less about this” air. I’m not sure if you were being graded strictly on content or if clear writing mattered at all, but I’d take it as a sign to do a bit of extra work on your answers and clean them up to look more professional next time. </p>

<p>On a side note about the bullets, if you were allowed to use them I’m sure your professor also meant that you were also to write your points/reasons in complete sentences.</p>

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<p>I read both exams just to be sure.</p>

<p>Sure, your initial answers are pretty similar (the first questions are only 5 points a piece).</p>

<p>But as we get to the bigger questions, the differences become more apparent. Not saying anything about how it’s graded; hell I don’t know the answer to those ridiculous questions.</p>

<p>But turning in the same answers? Not really. Look at the final essay question, number 10 (worth 25 points).</p>

<p>His answer and your answer have no similarities or similar examples at all.</p>

<p>And here’s a pro-tip. As a seasoned essay bull*****ter, I’ll tell you that you’ll score a LOT higher by doing the “shotgun method” aka writing sooo much down, that you’re bound to hit some of the correct answer or what the professor is looking for. Or at the very least, huge blocks of text make it look like you what you’re talking about. It’s a knee-jerk reaction.</p>

<p>A few bullet points? Now you have less “evidence” and “material” to prove your case with later. That is, if you even stumbled upon the right answer.</p>

<p>Look at your friend’s final answer. Even if it wasn’t what the professor was looking for, by writing in big block paragraph essay-form, his ideas form logically and flow coherently. So even if he missed the “answer,” you can’t argue that his logic is sound, even though he may have provided the answer to the wrong “question” per se. He’s also, perhaps unintentionally, starting to use the shotgun method.</p>

<p>You sparse bullet-points, on the other hand, need to be ball-on accurate and be GREAT points to hold up in a court of academia. Even then, you may still get points deducted for “not explaining yourself.”</p>

<p>Fight for the points if you need to (and accept that you may not get them). But hopefully learn a lesson from your failure.</p>

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<p>I also read both essays. I’ve got to say that the ideas are about the same. But sometimes teachers have certain preferences. Your friend wrote his ideas in flowing sentences while your ideas were put into bullets, therefore breaking the flow of thought. The ideas are there… Talk to your teacher. I would have given you a better grade, definitely not an F (is 60% an F or is 59% an F?) Idk… still talk to your teacher and try to persuade him. Sometimes teachers are genuinely sorry.</p>

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<p>I talked to him for an hour today. He’s not changing my grade. I admit my style and wording was different and probably inferior than my friends, but how is my grade 36% lower than his? This is ridiculous</p>