<p>A 89.5 over a 89.4 will make no difference in your final grade. Just get A’s the next two quarters.</p>
<p>I’d kill to be one of you with a 10-point grade scale.
This quarter ends Friday and right now I have a 92.41% in APWH… we have a small project due tomorrow and it’s the last grade, need a 96% or higher to get an A overall :p</p>
<p>@helloel
It actually wasn’t the right answer.
(Not what my teacher was looking for, anyway.) The point is, I convinced my teacher to change his mind. </p>
<p>Teachers are sympathetic creatures. They understand how their students’ grades are important to them. They understand the pressure to get into college, compete for scholarships, maintain class rank… After all, they went through the same thing. </p>
<p>Now, if you were a straight-A student your entire high school career, and had one “B” in a class- not even a low “B”, an 89.4- would you not even TALK to your teacher before grades were finalized? </p>
<p>If you’re scared of being seen as a “grade-grubber”, ask yourself: if you were a teacher, would you think badly of said student, or would you think of it as a reasonable request?</p>
<p>Well, from what I’ve seen, teachers at my school are only sympathetic if your grades are sinking. One time I had like a 92.3 or something in a class to get to an A and I jokingly said “won’t you just raise my grade” and my teacher just laughed and then got serious and was like no, I don’t do that. Like at my school, people say that jokingly, nobody seriously confronts a teacher and asks them to raise their grade for no reason. Grade grubbing isn’t really that common at my school, and I don’t worry about it. If my grades are bordering, that’s my problem. Yeah sure I beg for extra credit, all the time. Or I battle for every possible answer to a question. I don’t just let everything slide, and that’s what teachers like to see. That you care, not that you are asking for something they can’t give to you. There is reason behind the generous rounding system. Like a 92.5 and up is an A. And if you get a 92.4 then it’s an A-.</p>
<p>Maybe it depends on the teacher. But after I talked to that one teacher, that’s what I’ve always thought. Maybe people do get their grades rounded up a lot and I just didn’t know it, maybe I should’ve asked.</p>
<p>I guess I just think this way because a lot of people at my school are really modest. And are even afraid to ask the teacher fix the score when he/she messed up the grading!</p>
<p>An “A” at your school is a…93?
I feel so bad for you. I thought an “A” was the same everywhere: 90+</p>
<p>Your teachers don’t sound very nice…</p>
<p>Haha they are, and they’re actually very forgiving if you aren’t doing so well in a class. Though I haven’t needed it, I know a lot of people are given second tries at assignments to bring their grade up if they are in the C/D range. </p>
<p>And well technically a 90-92 is an A, but it’s an A-. At my old school there was no such thing as A- and A+, but now it seems like a big deal. Like a get something back and it says “A” and I’m happy, but the “-” makes it less special haha.</p>
<p>The teachers at my school are pretty forgiving about grades too. Since many of the people here are terrible test takers and horrible studiers, teachers usually see if a student did all of their work for the semester or whatever and has a few low test scores, they will either give extra credit to make up for the test or just bump their grade up.</p>
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<p>Ha, my Chemistry teacher repeatedly told the class that she does not round up grades under any circumstances, and then since half the class failed, she told us whoever got a 55%-60% ended up with a D and whoever got a 65%-70% ended up with a C. It was kinda unfair though because I worked hard to get a 86% and it just stayed as a B.</p>
<p>That was still nice of her to give to the failing students, though, considering her grading policies are ridiculous. I never thought she would do something like that, so you may be surprised!</p>
<p>OMGOMGOMG YOU GUYS. (Sorry for the bragging about to be done), BUT, I’m taking 5 APs this year and my cumulative GPA is 3.72 (HPA is 4.34, top 19%)! That’s a good thing because my freshman GPA is 3.81, and I got 4 As, 2 Bs, and 1 C this semester. I made calculations over and over, and my GPA always turns out lower than what it actually is. My friends calculated their GPA the same way, and they get the right answer. </p>
<p>It’s really weird. I have no idea why my GPA is higher than it should be, but… YAY! Lol.</p>
<p>I can get up to a 3.9 by college app time YAHOOO!! 
Again, sorry… I’m just super motivated now, lol.</p>
<p>Congrats^. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, my teacher rounded up my grade from an 89.4 to an 89.5 today, I talked to him during lunch. I asked him and he kinda just gave me a lecture and eventually upped my grade. I’m happy.</p>
<p>Learn from this semesters mistakes so you can make better grades next semester. Improve your study habits if necessary or go to tutoring if your teacher offers it. There’s a lot you can do and you should not be completely dependent on teachers dropping your worse test/quiz/homework grade or your teacher bumping up you grade.</p>
<p>I’m about to brag, but I won my county wide science fair and symposium for the Earth/Space/Environmental Science category! I did work on the effects of acidic water environments on fruit flies. I’m so happy that my hard work paid off in two 1st place finishes!</p>
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<p>Congrats! That’s an impressive feat, sir.</p>
<p>Well done, everyone! I have exams coming up…gah!</p>
<p>Just got my PSAT results back and got a 220! I’m so happy!!!</p>
<p>^ Nice job! Did you study at all?</p>
<p>Only the morning of the test…lol. I didn’t do as well on the CR as I would have liked. My breakdown was 69 CR / 80 M / 71 W</p>
<p>^Smartypants!</p>
<p>I got a 143 my 8th grade year and a 160 my freshman year. They seem horrible to me, but they are above my school’s average, which is about 110-115.</p>
<p>Did anyone start their exams on Friday? I had AP us gov and English. English was not so great :(</p>
<p>My sophomore class schedule this year</p>
<p>Honors English
Tech Theater
Pre-ap Geometry
Pre-ap Chemistry
Graphic design
lunch
AP world History
Band</p>
<p>Junior year:
Pre-cal pre-ap
Physics B Ap
AP chem
Ap world history
English (dunno if Im going to take AP or not)
Band
1/2 speech and 1/2 of AP psychology </p>
<p>Senior year:
Calculus BC AP
Physics C AP
English (dunno about AP- might take honors Dual credit)
1/2 Government and 1/2 Economics (both AP)
Band…</p>
<p>And thats all I got for now… Might do a college course if my school lets me :)</p>
<p>I might save AP chem for senior year, haven’t decided yet =P</p>