re: Teachers not rounding final grades at LSU

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That being said, not getting Those 0.3 points is crappy.

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Agreed. But I know faculty that get off on doing crap like that.

Here's a case study that I just had this semester for a 2000-level non-majors class.

40% of grade was position papers
Student made 85, 87, 92 and 80 on the four papers. Awarded 34.4 of 40 possible points. The 80 was an outlier and admittedly not her best work.

10% of the grade was class participation.
Student missed one class, regularly spoke up and was engaged with the material. Awarded 10 of 10 possible points

20% of the grade was a group project.
Student was paired with two below median students. Group project was graded at 84. Awarded 16.8 of 20 possible points

30% of the grade was midterm and final.
Student made a 92 and a 95. Awarded 28.05 of 30 possible points

Without looking at grades, I would have said that this student was one of the two best in the class, but she earned 89.25% of the possible 100 points. A solid B.

She was awarded an A.

Professor is a dick.

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To bad they aren't all as reasonable as this guy.

I was getting it for like 6 months

I stopped after she gave me the C

I got several 79.9 or 89.9 and was stuck with Bs or Cs. Impacted me too. Deal with it

I've gotten an 89.8 B before but it specifically said in the syllabus that there would be NO rounding up. It sucks to be so close but I wouldn't even think about bitching about it. It's already fricked up enough that someone who makes a 99 gets the same GPA as someone who makes a 90, no need to stretch it out even further

This site never ceases to amaze me... I regularly see people on TD bitch and complain about those who feel as if they are entitled. Now, the majority of posters in this thread are upset with professors who are appropriately evaluating the performance of their students?

Yes, it does suck that you were extremely close to receiving a B in the class. However, you are not entitled to a higher letter grade because you were close to a B.

Well I don't need any rounding took my physics final and made an A.

My application for ot school is looking better already

I had a prof who would just compute the ceiling, so a 69.2 became a 70. I don't think he wanted to deal with this shite.

I took a marketing elective the fall semester of my senior year. I never made below an 89 on an exam and completed every extra credit we were assigned yet the graduate assistant calculated everyone's final grade before he finished grading the last exam, so it looked like despite never making less than a B+ on any assignment that I barely passed with a C because he averaged in a "0" for the last test.