Is having a bad teacher REALLY an excuse?

ThisCouldBeHeavn
Sun, 30 May 2010 01:48:09 +0000

However, I would not blame low grades on professors. (A) The entire class had to put up with the same professor, and there were most certainly students who did earn good grades. (B) Most students encounter both easy and harsh graders over time. Over the course of a college career, these effects should average out. I would never blame a low GPA on my professors.



The problem with (A) is that in some classes there aren’t that many people with good grades. There was a class at UCLA last quarter where one guy got a B+ - nobody else higher than a C (this made the front page of the campus newspaper).

I also had a class where I got a lower grade than I expected from the 2 midterms. Unless I did a lot worse on the final than I thought, it seems like there couldn’t have been many A’s in the class.