<p>What the title says – has anyone earned one as the final grade in a course, or know of any other UCSD student who has?</p>
<p>Secondly, are A+ grades extremely rare at UCSD?</p>
<p>yes. depends on what class + prof.</p>
<p>nearly all my chem classes offered A+ as a final grade. my pchem professor actually did away with A-minuses and gave only As and A-pluses to those who made it that far :)</p>
<p>^ Good news; can you speak to grades offered in Social Sciences courses?</p>
<p>They are usually given to the top several students. It’s usually only a handful of those that just completely mastered the material almost perfectly.</p>
<p>soci 131 with thorpe…i thought it was a pretty wonderful class (it being my first soc class), and was pretty surprised that i was given an a+. its a class that requires attendance, midterm research paper and an in class final. i think participating in the class discussions and picking an interesting paper topic helped</p>
<p>I’ve gotten one but it was in a subject that i LOVED so I devoted myself completely to the material, doing more work than was required. They’re rare though, I consider myself lucky.</p>
<p>not too uncommon in engineering classes when it’s heavily curved</p>
<p>I got an A+ in just about every upper-div Econ class involving any bit of math just because of the ludicrous curves imposed on the class from under-motivated students.</p>
<p>Oyama, ECON120 series?? all A+'s? Who did you take?</p>
<p>Sun for A (A)
Candido for B (A+)
Jeon for C (A+)</p>
<p>Yeah.Lots of people too,depending on what number of people qualifies for ‘lots’ in your opinion.I hope you get one too if you are planning on sitting ‘them’ exams.</p>
<p>I wish I would have taken Jeon for 120C. I heard his classes are cake. I’m taking Beare right now and it suck!</p>
<p>Easy, though only around 15% of the class get As and above. Bs and Cs make up 80% of the curve.</p>
<p>15% is actually not as generous as some other classes. Is 120B significantly harder than 120A? I’m taking it with Dahl.</p>
<p>Grats to you guys above. </p>
<p>What about in sociology/psychology courses? Are A+s commonly achievable, with determined effort?</p>
<p>OoPurestOo, the material itself is a lot harder. You actually begin to go into hypothesis testing, single and multivariate regression, and more into CLT. I actually got lower in 120A only because there was no curve.</p>
<p>Oliver_Twist, a lot less common since there usually isn’t a curve in either department. The reason A+s are prevalent in math/econ/sciences is because of heavy curving. When the cutoff to get an A is 70%, for example, and you have an 80%, you’re pretty golden.</p>
<p>My only A+ is from a lower div Ethnic Studies course, and I’m pretty sure it’s because it was my TA’s first quarter. I had him TA again later in another course and he wasn’t nearly as lenient.</p>
<p>To Oliver_Twist,
I have gotten quite a few A+s in my anthro classes (as close to sociology/psychology as you can get without going there, hehe). It is definitely possible, but study your butt off and make friends with whoever is grading your work! Since social sciences are subjective, if they know you and like you, you are going to get a better grade. The way to do this? Go to office hours.</p>
<p>Hard to be “subjective” when over 50% of the Psychology classes I’ve taken were all Scantron-based.</p>