Guess I'll start with my thrilling tale.
When I was in elementary school we were told to write an essay on "If you go back to the past what would you change about yourself" I got an F and sent to the principal because I didn't follow instructions. Then when I was in middle school I had to write an essay on the same thing. I wrote what I did in elementary but more fleshed out. I got an F again and sent to the principal for "plagiarism" because someone in my grade shouldn't know about this. So I got suspended.
Here's what I remember about the essay
[QUOTE]I would not want to change anything as if I do, the good things that did happen so far might not happen. And if I do go back in time many things could happen
First would be if I go back in time to change something then I'd never have the need to change what it was. Second is if I do change the past and made it back to the present, there would be no change as I ended up making a new universe. Lastly if I go back to change something maybe it was already going to happen. Say in the past I found a gameboy. I took it as mine. Years later I go into the past with my gameboy and I end up losing it causing the old me to find it.[/QUOTE]
I just yesterday got an A+ on my first-year project of my BA in history about the slave system in the late roman empire, and I truly feel like it wasn't worth that grade and that I deserved a C at best for it. I am going to go ask my professor about it. I'm not an idiot, not gonna ask it changed, but I am highly curious where he found an A+ in an assignment I personally concluded as flawed and unfinished [I]within the paper itself.[/I]
[editline]19th June 2015[/editline]
I also had an oral exam A+ in Danish foreign policy of the 1950s that I don't feel like I deserved, but apparently my stubbornness in my argumentation for why Korea, Vietnam and the 2012 Libya campaign was relevant to the 1950's Danish politics was impressive enough to warrant it.
I got 7 (on scale of 4-10) from PE once without ever actually attending classes that fall. The rare benefits of being a mute nerd nobody seems to notice :v
[QUOTE=EmRA;48006837]I got 7 (on scale of 4-10) from PE once without ever actually attending classes that fall. The rare benefits of being a mute nerd nobody seems to notice :v[/QUOTE]
i got a A in the physical side of pe and i never even went to 1 pe lesson in the whole year
I've skipped everyday of class in multiple college courses and I didn't fail them so...
Every single A on a college English essay from last year. I can't write for shit and nearly every essay I wrote for English was an A, aside from one that I got 88/100 on (I got my score knocked down by 5 pts for being too technical, it was about nuclear energy, went right over her head). BTW in my college, 90+ is an A, no A- or B+. I must have some hidden writing talent that I can't see.
Also I got 150/150 on a project for an art class I took as an elective. I knew I needed to do it since before the class even started, and I put it off until the night before it was due. I spent a good 7-8 hours in GIMP making it and converted it to a home printable poster format and turned it in a few hours late. I fucking love that instructor, really cool guy.
Pretty much every grade I've attained in my English class.
Usually whenever an essay's due I'll forget about it until the night before then crap out some sentences/ideas that are relevant to the topic and get a decent grade.
Had a teacher grade a short essay an A because she couldn't read my handwriting (I'd normally type it, but it was in-class and the student log-in system was down that day), and my other papers had been good.
I don't remember what it was about, but I remember that it wasn't very good.
I got a 60% on a presentation because it was a few days late. It's was late due to one day I was absent for an illness and the other days was due to state testing. He never corrected it and since school is out it's too late now. Brought my grade down badly too but oh well.
My grade in Linear Algebra came out to be an 89.0 (B). I went to go see the teacher to get my test and see if there was a half point I could grovel about. The moment he saw me he just said I got an A.
No further discussion was necessary.
[QUOTE=Tone Float;48008735]My grade in Linear Algebra came out to be an 89.0 (B). I went to go see the teacher to get my test and see if there was a half point I could grovel about. The moment he saw me he just said I got an A.
No further discussion was necessary.[/QUOTE]
Why the fuck would you complain about an 89?
I forget about a very important essay for my LA class and had to do something quick 2 hours before it was due. Ended up getting a 97 and being used as an example of what non last-minute work is like since like half the class failed that essay.
I passed all years in highschool :v:
I passed my senior physics course with a 93%- The same grade he gave to everyone in the class, whether they did work or messed around all period.
The teacher was an asshat. He outright refused to teach kids who "didn't show initiative" by whatever standards he set in place. Most classes revolved around us reading textbooks and discussing physics problems on a small whiteboard in the corner by ourselves. No interjection from the teacher if we were on the wrong track. Outside of a few physics lectures and demos he mainly messed around on his laptop the entire class and allowed the students to teach themselves, after starting the class off with a half hour of the daily wimp.com videos on the whiteboard projector.
(The dude was fired a year later. He put a student to the ground as part of a "physics demo" involving a bowling ball; charges were filed.)
[QUOTE=Riller;48006714]I just yesterday got an A+ on my first-year project of my BA in history about the slave system in the late roman empire, and I truly feel like it wasn't worth that grade and that I deserved a C at best for it. I am going to go ask my professor about it. I'm not an idiot, not gonna ask it changed, but I am highly curious where he found an A+ in an assignment I personally concluded as flawed and unfinished [I]within the paper itself.[/I][/QUOTE]
If it's for a first year subject I think your professor was just happy that you wrote something that resembled an essay.
As for me, I managed to get a distinction on an Art History essay which should have been a pass only at best. I didn't care for the subject and it wasn't contributing to my major so I just went on a 8 page rant about a particular art historian we had covered. I read one article by her and decided she was terribly wrong but I couldn't be fucked to actually critique her approach well. So I took the path of least resistance and wrote all the arguments I would have made, then added some flimsy analysis of artworks to justify them. Luckily I think my marker hated her guts as well, so it ended much better than I had assumed it would.
I really did think it was a bad essay with bad evidence.
I managed to get a B+ in 7th grade english by convincing (aka agreeing with her when she asked) my teacher that all my work got lost, I don't remember doing a damn thing
I had a geometry teacher who was a burnt out WW2 Navy man who couldn't control a class to save his life. Every day he would show us one concept and never do more examples and it was pretty much free time for another 90 minutes. It got so bad to the point where there was a rotting cheese slice hiding behind some old computers and a giant engraved zebra penis on the table.
I got a B in that class because each time we did tests he asked for your work on the back and all I did was staple empty papers and he gave me full points for those :v:
I got a C in my art class during my Junior year without doing anything. I would go to class and sit there for an hour and still got a C meanwhile some of my friends worked their asses off trying to get their grades.
Teacher was a real twat honestly and would flat out ignore some students (or was just completely oblivious).
[QUOTE=Agent Fedora;48009675]I managed to get a B+ in 7th grade english by convincing (aka agreeing with her when she asked) my teacher that all my work got lost, I don't remember doing a damn thing[/QUOTE]
literally how i passed high school
I got a B- on my Dissertation that was written in its entirety 5 days before it was due.
My PE teacher liked me because he knew my mother from birdwatching so he always gave me free 7/10s even if I didn't want to participate. During PE I'd mostly just sit at the sidelines and have conversations with him.
Got an A+ on my spanish oral exam. I was so nervous that I picked a fight with the examiner.
GCSE Religious Education exam, in the mock exam 2 weeks before the actual one I got something like a U or an E, but the night before the actual one I briefly looked over a handout for about 10 minutes and picked up a few easy to remember things.
You get questions about drugs, marriage, the environment, that sort of shit, and then you have to give religious and non religious views on them
So on every question, outside of obvious humanist views I answered with:
Jesus said Love Thy Neighbour/Thy Self
The cow is sacred to Hindus
The pig is sacred to Muslims
The usual stuff about pre-marital sex and divorce
By some unbelievable consequence I walked away with an A. The next time I saw the R.E teacher I had that year in the corridor, he grinned like an idiot.
I got a 113 one time on a paper I turned in two weeks late.
But the grading scale was out of 300. My mom wasn't as impressed when I told her that part.
D in maths, even though I was told my coursework was A* work and there's no way I'd get below a C unless I didn't even attend the exam.
Turns out the grade was 'adjusted' because I did it in college instead of secondary school (I was homeschooled), and they dropped it like 3 grades because I 'had it easier', it was the same coursework and exam as in secondary school, if not harder because it was done in 1 year instead of 2.
I missed the first three (or possibly four) classes of Philosophy 2nd course, then attended without missing any of the remaining ones, and got an 8. On a scale from 4-10.
Philosophy 3rd course almost same story, missing first few classes, but got an 9. On a scale from 4-10.
And the 1st philosophy course? Got a 4, on a scale from for 4 to 10.
[QUOTE=Lord Xenoyia;48010844]D in maths, even though I was told my coursework was A* work and there's no way I'd get below a C unless I didn't even attend the exam.
Turns out the grade was 'adjusted' because I did it in college instead of secondary school (I was homeschooled), and they dropped it like 3 grades because I 'had it easier', it was the same coursework and exam as in secondary school, if not harder because it was done in 1 year instead of 2.[/QUOTE]
How the hell did they even expect you to pass the class then? If when you do A+ work they still give you a failing grade.
I passed a notoriously difficult Environmental for Civil Engineers class with a C.
Only because he curved grades so low that 60-69 points fell in that range :v:
[QUOTE=matt000024;48009433]Why the fuck would you complain about an 89?[/QUOTE]
My university goes by ABCDF scale. An 89 ought to have been a B, whereas an 89.5 is typically an A - there are no pluses or minuses.
That's all that factors into your GPA, and therefore into things like scholarships (kind of a big deal).
I wasn't there to beg, (I wouldn't be any good at begging). I was going to ask the professor to see the test and see if there was a point he missed. I actually found such a missed half point that would have bumped my grade up to an A, in spite of his having said verbally he gave me an A immediately prior.
Took a 6 week Trigonometry course. Didn't know it was 6 weeks. Too late to drop the course. If I had a job that involved getting off my ass, it would have been IMPOSSIBLE.
So yeah the online course randomly generates its problems too. I used this website [url]http://interactmath.com/home.aspx[/url] to randomize the problems in the same way until the variables were the same. It was tedious but it worked on regular homework and quizzes. I got an A. Don't be me.
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