Questions tagged [grades]
Queries related to interpreting grades or understanding grading systems. This tag is not suitable for queries about improving grades or about the process of assigning a grade to an assessment item.
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Do grad schools look at the overall GPA in applications, or do they look at particular courses?
I'm wondering whether it'd be worthwhile to spend an extra semester in my undergrad or two getting my grades up. Unfortunately I've taken all the courses relevant to my field, so this would mean using ...
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Why are cumulative tests typically weighted so high (U.S.)?
Is there an academic justification behind most U.S. classes weighting exams at very high percentages of the overall grade in a course? So if a student does exceedingly well throughout the course in ...
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What is or should be the meaning of a "grade"? [closed]
What is or should be the purpose of a "grade"?
I am going to be entering into TAing and grading students and this is a concept that I still can't wrap my head around. It still amazes me that ...
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How to proceed when a professor is not answering emails requesting for a grade? and not awarding bonus points as he said? [closed]
Some key facts:
I am a master's student.
The professor in question is also our director of studies and teaches 3 mandatory classes in our program.
Several students have sent emails that never ...
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I have been accused of copying two lab reports from the previous year even though I had done everything by myself
Today I got accused by my professor of cheating and copying two reports I submitted. I had a formal meeting with the professor where he tried to push me into admitting I cheated by showing me the ...
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My Professor changed my multiple choice answers. What should I do?
My prof changed some of my multiple choice answers on a test to give me a better grade. I noticed because I remember putting different answers for the questions and the way they were circled was not ...
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What do Grad Schools think about Pass/No Pass courses?
I am a physics major at UCLA with a busy schedule. I am currently taking 3 upper division physics courses every quarter while balancing 10-20 hours of research per week. I would like to learn more ...
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Grade changes with auto grader
If I use an auto-grading script and allow students to see their would-be grade based on the auto-grader, is it wrong to change their grades after the due date if I decide to change the auto-grader? I'...
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Bologna Process - Equivalence note in European Supplement
I recently graduated from a MSc in Spain.
When applying for PhD abroad I discovered the equivalence system in place in order to "translate" my grades here into a standard one, as part of the Bologna ...
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Is there a way to improve my grade after graduation?
I graduated around 3 years ago with a degree, from a Russell Group university, in Mathematics. I had some mental health issues in my final term which essentially bombed my grade. Since I had no ...
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Transitioning back to science after working outside of the field?
I went to university studying Immunology but university as a whole was rough for me because I was a poor international student (on scholarship) and my mental health was really bad in general. I ...
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Are athletes' college degrees discounted by employers and graduate school admissions?
This question and the pertinent answers suggest that, as a rule, college athletes in the United States are not held to the same academic standards as other students. It also seems that this is well-...
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Final Exam: Proficiency Needed for Guaranteed Pass
Is it common to guarantee students a passing course grade if they demonstrate proficiency in some subset of topics/skills on a final exam?
Note that this is in contrast to setting an upper bound on a ...
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Did I screw myself out of graduate school? [closed]
I graduated from a state school in 2009 with a 2.77 overall GPA. I technically should have graduated in 2008, but was only going part time, so I stretched it out and became a "super senior." I'll be ...
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Is there any way to escape a terrible cumulative grade average?
I am an undergrad student studying engineering at one of the top institutions in my country. Doing this degree was not my original plan and I came to it after I was unable to gain full financial ...
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How important are my grades to the rest of my PhD career?
Speaking to the faculty in my program, I've noticed that they seem to evaluate themselves and others using two criterion: (1) publication quality and quantity, and (2) ability to obtain grant money. ...
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Why do people say that elite schools are inflating grades? [closed]
Ivy League students had 4.0 GPA in average at high school, but their average college GPA is 3.45. A student from a random school had 3.3 from their high school, and then 3.3 exiting GPA from the ...
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How do US grad schools interpret international GPAs?
I am an international student looking to apply for a PhD in mathematics in mainly the USA. My current university uses a 10 point scale for GPA but most of the universities I've seen, in the US seem to ...
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Should students have access to past exams or an exam bank?
Something I never understood is how in so many undergrad classes North America, the students are allowed to have past exams that they are allowed to study over.
It never made sense to me because it ...
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Emailing a professor for points on an exam when you want a recommendation from the professor
I recently took an exam in my master's program where I missed just enough points to change my grade from A+ to A (in my country, these show up differently on a transcript). I intend on applying to ...
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Should I cheat if the majority does it?
I'm taking the last and hardest exams of my master degree. During the exams we aren't allowed to use anything else but our brain. Cheating is pretty easy though: one has the lecture notes and all the ...
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Criteria of grading teamwork
I'm an international student pursing master's degree in computer science in the US. This semester I was doing a course not even an elective to my program. I chose it because it seemed very interested ...
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PhD Applications: Can a good academic record in my master's compensate for a horrible UG academic record? [duplicate]
I have a very bad undergraduate academic record -- I failed or didn't attend the end semester exams for many courses (15 courses, to be exact!), and I had to clear these later on, towards the end of ...
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Cambridge University "overall grade"?
I'm from Brazil and the metric system for grades here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_systems_by_country#Brazil) is different from UK.
So, I'm an undergraduate student who wants to apply to a ...
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Failing students when it might cause them economic ruin
The issue has crept up on me slowly over the last several years. I am increasingly aware of the massive debt that many of my students are taking on, debt which is far beyond the sort of debt that I ...
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Is it fair for a professor to grade us on the possession of past papers?
My English professor recently asked us to bring in all of our graded essays from the whole semester in order to fill out a 'rubric' of sorts which tallied the various types of mistakes we had made. ...
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Where do all the essays go in college? [closed]
At my college I worked in the back room shredding graded essays from various subjects for hours.
Some of them were very good and seems like a gross waste of data and labor.
I wonder is this the ...
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Putting class ranking in CV, but against dept guidelines
I graduated last year from a master's course where I was fortunate enough to graduate top of my class. However I was told this in confidence by one of my referees to a PhD programme, and they informed ...
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How do professors see the German grades?
I am currently doing a master in Germany and I scored 2.7 in one particular course.
How is 2.7 to the professors? Is it a very bad grade? Is this grade uncommon among students?
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Is it normal for an instructor to refuse to tell students their current grade? [closed]
I want to know what my current grade in a particular class is. The professor says she refuses to tell us our grades. The syllabus mentions the same policy.
Is this normal? What should I do?
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Slept through final, professor is giving me a zero and failing me – is there anything I can do to change this?
I slept through my 8 am final last Thursday, and I didn’t wake up until 11:50 am. By the time I scrambled to remember what day it was, it was already noon. I frantically sent the professor an email ...
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how to deal with this prof when he gives you his lowest grade? [closed]
Now our marks came out and the average is 94 and he gave me 2 marks less than the average of the class. (This means that I have got the lowest grade in the class)
I am overthinking these days and ...
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Should I question this grading scale
I am in my second semester in a Post-Bachelors Doctorate of Nursing Practice program. The class is a graduate nursing informatics course. My instructor posted the following grading scale. My initial ...
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What's the logic behind the European grading system? Why did they make it so confusing? [closed]
The European grading system also follows an ABCDEF system like in the US.
However, an A in an European grading system is worth more than an A in an American system.
So what is the point of using ...
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To what extent do doctoral advisors "pick" their grad students?
I am just starting a graduate program in physics. I have read a few posts describing what a PhD student should think about when looking for an advisor, but I have a question regarding the advisor's ...
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Asking a professor for a bonus [closed]
I did bad on the midterm exam not because I did not understand the material well enough but I was anxious on the exam day and did not get enough sleep the night before.
I feel terrible about my ...
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What to do if my professor won't give me a grade for a test?
So I took this online class and the professor didn't grade our exams till the end of the semester and I was surprised to learn that I got a 0 on the first one. Now I remember taking this test and ...
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I got a B- in Math. How bad is that for Econ? [duplicate]
So the title explains why I'm posting. I'm a masters student in economics at a pretty prestigious university and one of the courses that you're required to take as a first year is called Math Methods ...
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Worked SUPER hard only to fail hard, now I'm drained [closed]
At the start of the semester, I was driven, powered, a little unfocused (my phone kept distracting me from studying.) But I kept pushing on and on.
But I made costly mistakes along the way.
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Would I get into trouble if I give out "too many" A grades?
In the next semester, I will be teaching for the first time
a seminar course which is composed of about 25 students.
I am not sure how to respond to prospective students
who have asked me about the ...
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What does IPR mean on a grade report in Canada?
I'm was doing some continuing education in a Canadian University this fall. I was looking at my list of final grades on their website (none of them seem to be in so far), but one of them is marked ...
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Why have schools been discontinuing the practice of giving A+ grades? [closed]
My high school and undergraduate college did not offer grades of "A+." At both schools, the grading scheme was this:
93–100: A
90–92: A–
87–89: B+
83–86: B
80–82: B–
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GPA calculation in German Grading system
I am studying in a German University where the GPA grades are :
1.0 , 1.3, 1.7, 2.0, 2.3, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.7, 4.0 with 1.0 being the best score a student can get in exam and below 4.0 it is fail.
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If a thesis committe member asks for changes in my thesis does that mean I'm not getting a PhD "summa cum laude"? [closed]
I am a PhD student in Germany. I had a question regarding the summa cum laude mark for my thesis.
To open the examination procedure, I asked three reviewers to read my thesis (my main supervisor and ...
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Rationale for Passing Students "by Compensation"
Certainly in Ireland at least, there is a mechanism whereby students, with otherwise good grades, are allowed to "pass by compensation" a module(s) that they have failed.
For example, a student ...
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Is there a way to compare your performance in one university to another?
I graduated from CS from a university in Canada. Although I did pretty well, I cannot help but wonder what would have happened if I had gone to a different university. For example, I cannot help but ...
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Math PhD after graduating with average grades
I am currently an MSc student in math in Europe (I'm doing mainly analysis and applied math). During my Bachelor's I've had mainly average grades (I'm not sure what the exact GPA equivalent is, but it ...
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Should I send this e-mail to my instructor who is also my supervisor? [duplicate]
I am very mad about my grade and I prepared this letter. could you pls give me a piece of advice about how to write and complain about the grade? I really do not know what to write. I really want to ...
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Asking for a letter medical school letter of recommendation from a class you failed, retook, and got an A in?
I failed one of my classes (E and M) and during the subsequent retake got an A. I was considering asking the professor for a letter of recommendation because I think the episode shows my willingness ...
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Chances of getting in at a world top 50 graduate school for Economics with a C+ in Calculus II? [closed]
My GPA (Economics) at the moment is 3.7 but I have a terrible grade on Calculus II (C+)- the reason being that Calculus II clashed with another mandatory course of mine, and I couldn't attend most of ...
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