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Old May 08, 2009, 12:34 AM
GrayNess GrayNess is offline
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To avoid myself from righting a string of swear words and to keep me from destroying my room even more than it already is, I'm pretty pissed off at the marks I got:

Abnormal psychology: 89%
Human neuropsychology: 83%
Human anatomy and physiology: 85%
Developmental psychology (only of adults): 80% (was 79.5% but got rounded up to 80% officially)
Genetics: 70%....

I'm fuming about the developmental psychology and genetics, especially the genetics. Genetics (involved molecular genetics of cancer, sex-determination and such) was the hardest course thus far but a lousy 70%? I'm in a double major biology and psychology, and a 70% for a required course for biology major is above the mediocre 50% pass, however, it's still rather horrid. I don't know the class average yet but I do know that the term tests were brutal for myself and for the entire class, however, I cant be bothered to care how well the rest of the class did. I'm concerned about myself only and a 70% is a piece of crap compared to the other marks I got this semester, a 70% is an insult.

And just to kick it again, according to my university, a 83% is an A-, not even an A. An A I believe is 85%-90% and above that is A+. 80% I think is either a B+ or A- here. So, A or A+ is GPA of 4.0, A- is 3.7, B+ is 3.3.

Ugh... this is crap, how did the rest of you do for your final marks, either in high school, pre-high school, college, university, graduate school or whatever else?

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Old May 08, 2009, 06:47 AM
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I do not go to school . So i have no grades. My daughter and son go thou
they did ok.
I just want to tell you this not sure if it will help.
AS i have always told my kids and this was from K up, One is in college.
If you have done your best then smile, Cause thats all you can do is your best.
If you passed YAYAYAYAYAYA
congrats to you
I know you wanted higher than a 70..........but if its passing and you did your best
congrats
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Old May 08, 2009, 02:40 PM
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Ok. Breath. Find out how the rest of your class did. It always does help to determine if perhaps the professor was unnecessarily hard when writing their exams/tests, and perhaps that would be shown in what your other classmates got in the class as well.

You did well, anything beyond a 70% is considered a "solid grade" even if it's not as high as you'd like it to be. I'd suggest that you talk to an academic advisor, and if it's advised - you could always retake the class to earn a higher grade if you so desire.

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Old May 08, 2009, 03:26 PM
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I've spoken to the academic advisors before about a different issue (twice actually) and both times were utterly useless. All they did was read to me the requirements and course descriptions, all of which I can do myself. Sometimes I wondered by just how much the advisors I saw actually passed high school as they sat there, smiled, spat information to me that was nearly word-for-word in the online academic calender and assumed that somehow that'd clarify my questions, which it did not. I saw them again, hoping I'd get a more competant advisor, however, that did not happen, the second person was equally incompetant as the first. So, I have no desire to see a third academic advisor as doing so would once again waste my time and effort.

The class averages are not up yet so I do not know, however, I do know that for the genetics tests, the averages were well in the 40%-low 50% range. I assume that for the exam, the average was around 50-60%, however, that's a random guess on my part.

For me, a 75% and above is a suitable grade, anything below that is nothing to be proud of. Ideally an 80% and above, however, bare minimum to be suitable is a 75%. A 60% and below is something you should be ashamed about. A 50% and below is something not worth mentioning unless one wants to degrade themselves even more.

I want more than a simple pass, if I wanted a pass then I'd have slacked off much more, however, I want a mark that looks very nice. To me, a 70% regardless of the course is not something to be proud of, it's something that shows that you vaguely understand the concepts. If I do my best, then I "smile" based off of the grade, not the simple concept of how much effort I put into it. If I did my best and got a 50%, then I'm going to be even angrier. The glory and gratification comes from the numbers, not the mere concept of how much effort one put it and the subjective, useless concept of how well one thinks they did. Both of those are useless to me as they serve no purpose other than to provide greater chance of falsified information, completely subjective information I might add.
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Old May 09, 2009, 10:30 PM
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Hi Grayness,

That was a heavy course load to be carrying.

Genetics must be very complicated, especially with the other complex courses you were taking. I think 70% sounds very good.

EJ
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Old May 11, 2009, 01:16 AM
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Even though I still do think that a 70% is a garbage mark, I'm over my little temper-tantrum. I didn't find that course load to be too heavy but rather just the right amount. I got bored from time to time but next year, I doubt I'll get as bored as often.
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