Oh! Grades…

The class I liked with the teacher who loved me: A
The class I hated with the teacher who hated me: B (He gave me a B for a 93%. I think his scale is fucked up but whatever.)
The grad class that I did a pretty bad job in because I just had trouble being engaged: B+

Overall total grad school GPA so far: 3.454

One credential class left to take and I’m taking it with my favorite teacher.
Student teaching. (I don’t even think I get a grade I think this is pass/fail.)
Three masters classes.
Two sections of working on my thesis.

Think I’ll be able to bring it up to a 3.5 if I actually buckle down and do more work next year? (Yeah–most of my grad career has been very lackadaisical [I am so proud that I got the spelling of that right on the first try!] and I’ve been scattered and unfocused for the last two semesters.)

Certainly not as good as I could do, but really I don’t think I should be ashamed of my performance to date. Although let me tell you, my inner perfectionist sees a 3.4 as being almost as bad as a 2.0. It’s pretty sick.

14 thoughts on “Oh! Grades…”

  1. cyranocyrano

    So was a 93% a B for everybody, or just you cuz you hated him?
    PS: Yay! Congratulations! Those are good grades despite what your IP says.

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      1. rjray

        People associate grading on a curve with pulling up shoddy grades, but it can work in reverse. A hardware class I took my soph year was graded on a curve, and I ended up with a B for a 94. Kinda killed the whole “grade on a curve” magic for me.

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      2. rjray

        People associate grading on a curve with pulling up shoddy grades, but it can work in reverse. A hardware class I took my soph year was graded on a curve, and I ended up with a B for a 94. Kinda killed the whole “grade on a curve” magic for me.

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  2. cyranocyrano

    So was a 93% a B for everybody, or just you cuz you hated him?
    PS: Yay! Congratulations! Those are good grades despite what your IP says.

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  3. tsgeisel

    What warrants an A in the class with the hated teacher?

    Perhaps the department head should know that his grading scale is a little off? I mean, if you did the work that warrants an A in 95% of the other classes, perhaps your grade should reflect that. Because a transcript doesn’t say “93%” it just says “B”.

    Think of it as an opportunity to have a philosophical discussion about differences in grading with someone who’s job it is to oversee that sort of thing.

    Anyway, good job. The B+ in the class you couldn’t get engaged in is the most impressive to me, because that’s the sort of thing I have the most trouble with.

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      1. tsgeisel

        Ok.

        Just out of curiousity, does this sort of topic come up in any of the classes in the department? It just seems like such a philosophical issue that it should be somewhere.

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      2. tsgeisel

        Ok.

        Just out of curiousity, does this sort of topic come up in any of the classes in the department? It just seems like such a philosophical issue that it should be somewhere.

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  4. tsgeisel

    What warrants an A in the class with the hated teacher?

    Perhaps the department head should know that his grading scale is a little off? I mean, if you did the work that warrants an A in 95% of the other classes, perhaps your grade should reflect that. Because a transcript doesn’t say “93%” it just says “B”.

    Think of it as an opportunity to have a philosophical discussion about differences in grading with someone who’s job it is to oversee that sort of thing.

    Anyway, good job. The B+ in the class you couldn’t get engaged in is the most impressive to me, because that’s the sort of thing I have the most trouble with.

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  5. tenacious_snail

    hmm, the scales I have dealt with have had an A start between 90 and 93, which says to me that a 93 is somewhere between B+ and A.

    But I think your grades, are, overall, something to be pleased with, esp. for the not-engaging class

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  6. tenacious_snail

    hmm, the scales I have dealt with have had an A start between 90 and 93, which says to me that a 93 is somewhere between B+ and A.

    But I think your grades, are, overall, something to be pleased with, esp. for the not-engaging class

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