Has anyone ever asked their professor to raise their grade?

[Ctystar]

I need at least an 80% (bare minimum) to be competitive in trying to get into the business program at MRU.
I am sitting at 78.3% and got 80% on my research paper and final as well. That only boosted my mark up 2% unfortunately. Has anyone been successful trying to raise their letter grade after the course is completed?
I just got my marks today..

[Marsh]

Yeah I did it all the time, as long as the next letter grade was reasonably close (1-2%). Never had a prof say no, just be polite about it.

[EK69]

I am gonna guess a prof will tell u to fuck off??
I dunno. Good topic of discussion tho. I wonder if this happens more often than one would think lol

And if it did work for anyone what exactly did u say?
Just straight up ask for a boost in the grade?? Lol

[jsn]

I did in first year. They don't have much sympathy at all. One of my courses, I was 1.5 % away from not having to retake the course and the prof pretty much just said tough luck. I was an idiot first year but I learned my lesson and quit slacking off.

Doesn't hurt to try, but I doubt they'll do anything. They're not going to boost your mark for no reason at all. The curve is set up so everyone's only a few percent off of the next grade.

[ReflexFX]

I was something like 0.16% off from an A in a control systems course, and my prof wouldn't give it to me. I had to get a copy of my final and dig for a mark to get my A.

[ExtraSlow]

Only time I tried this I got my mark lowered. I did not try this again.

[ntegra98rs]

Really depends on the prof..

[topmade]

Not sure what school Marsh went to but the answer is usually a big fat NO. It doesn't hurt to ask and if I were you I would look over some tests, quizes or anything else you might be able to get a few extra marks for and bring it up when you talk to your prof.

[lasimmon]

Used to do it at the U of A all the time. Small amounts like 1-4% I never had any issues.

Just gotta know how the prof is. All mine were ok with it.

[turbotrip]

i was unsuccessful every time i ever tried in my university career- but did see many people who were successful

[Tik-Tok]

"Bring a bottle of fine scotch when you ask."

One of my teachers literally said this to the class on day one, lol. It was his last year of teaching, so he didn't give a shit.

[D'z Nutz]

I was a bare minimum student so asking a professor to raise my grade from like a C- to a C would have required more than bare minimum effort and really grasping at straws

Although I did ask a professor to bump my mark in one class. I was literally one multiple choice question away from an A- to an A (0.5% of the final grade). He said no when I asked but when I got my final mark I saw he bumped it. It was going to be my first and only A, so why not try? Haha

[leftwing]

I definitely was successful in getting my grades raised sometimes, and not successful other times. It depends on the professor. I would suggest asking your prof if you could complete and extra credit assignment to bump your grade up the 1-2%. Sounds dumb, but maybe suggest writing a 1-2 page paper on what you learned in the class/what you took away from the class. Explain why you want your grade raised, as it is a fairly valid reason. I did that a few times to bump myself from a B+ to an A-. There is no risk in asking, worst case they will say no and you will never hear about it again. But if they say yes...well.....

edit: out of curiosity, what class/prof is this?

[magicalpoop]

Never successful in any "en mass" class that's a general degree requirement.

Have had tons of success in 4th year courses or options. Proff that teaches that class once every 2 years? Easy. The proff/instructor that coordinates/manages that class and oversees it on a semester basis with 5-10 sections? ROFL don't even bother.

You're better off simply forging a difference on an assignment or reviewing all your multiple choice exams (if it comes to it, change an answer in front of them)

Yes that's gutsy, but better than trying to be the 100th person to bribe/neg a proff.

[HiTempguy1]

I had one class that the whole term was a written report and oral presentation. I did fairly well, but the whole thing was poorly run by the teacher and the requirements of the topic were quite nebulous. I got a 78% (I was running 4.0's in all classes for my diploma), and I just nicely asked him if it would be possible to get up to an 80%. It's not like I didn't bust ass on the project, it was simply an arbitrary call on his part that he didn't like my topic as much as others. I pointed out to him that I clearly took my academics seriously (unlike 85%+ of the students there), and was willing to do whatever it took to get that 80%. Part of the agreement required a small rewrite (of my own) that had to satisfy him that the report was adequate for an 80%. I took his suggestions, nailed it, and we were good to go.

Long story short, it really depends

[Ctystar]

Thanks for all your guys opinion. I will definately ask my prof soon. Has anyone been succesful with doing it through email?

And this is for my sociology 1101 at mru with Caroline Macdonald.

[turbotrip]

DO NOT DO IT THROUGH EMAIL!

[403ep3]

Originally posted by turbotrip
DO NOT DO IT THROUGH EMAIL!

I've asked through emails before and have gotten it. I only really asked when I was within 1% of the next letter grade. Some just automatically bumped the whole class up if they were close enough

[XylathaneGTR]

I asked a professor to do it once, though email.

I was ~.5% or something from a grade cutoff. I went through all of my returned assignments and exams for the course and found one mark that I was deducted on a kinda-sorta technicality (it waas something about how I modeled or programmed something...it wasn't conventional so the TA deducted a mark even though everything still worked and was correct).

If this mark was added back, it would put me above the cutoff.

In short, I approached the professor with something reasoned and well thought out, justified my case and found the mark for him, all he had to do was make one edit. I was honest, and said that I felt I should have made that grade cutoff.

He agreed and gave it to me.

Good luck. If you go in and just expect a handout...you probably won't get it. If you argue your case and show the prof the proove about why you deserve the credit, they may give it to you.

[flipstah]

Various through profs but I'll always remember one:

I asked one STAT prof to move me up from C- to C and I was off by 0.9% and all I got was a lesson of how making things askewed for one person is unjust and how by moving me up a spot, she has to recalculate to make the distribution fair.

She shot me down but she did it in such a nice way.

She'll always make me laugh by was saying 'Poisson' funny.