I just added up my points in fundamentals of nursing and I have a 89.9 . There is no rounding and I am 2 total points (one test question on any of the 5 tests) from an A. I know I should be grateful and that some of you have a 94-100A grading scale, however I still feel like I was so close. If it was a 88 or 89.4 I would accept my B but come one! one tenth?!?! Anyone else have this happen?
I could try and argue 2 points but I doubt its a winning battle. Sorry for the rant I'm just dissapointed in coming so close.
By the way I am a first semester student in a ADN program.(well now technically second semester)
In one of my classes I was 2 points shy of a B. I got a 84.44 so I got a C. Well I am applying for the internship and we have to submit our grades, I so badly want to say, well I got a 2.0 C yes but it was an 84.44% not a 77% :stone
This kills me too! We're going to have people from my fundies class fail because of a 79.4% grade. So they have their transcripts sent to another school and they have to explain that they failed a class w/ a grade that would have been rounded up to a B in several other nursing programs in the area.
I just added up my points in fundamentals of nursing and I have a 89.9 . There is no rounding and I am 2 total points (one test question on any of the 5 tests) from an A. I know I should be grateful and that some of you have a 94-100A grading scale, however I still feel like I was so close. If it was a 88 or 89.4 I would accept my B but come one! one tenth?!?! Anyone else have this happen?
Of course you're disappointed. However, wherever the cut-off is, there may always be someone who's just a tenth or two away. The cut-off is what it is and you missed it. Disappointing, of course, but no reflection on the testing process, the grading scale, the instructor, or even you.
Yeah I discussed it with my clinical instructor and she went over the dropped test questions to see if they helped/hurt me. They hurt me on 2 of the test but really helped me on the final. Basically without the dropping of test questions I would have an 89.5 which is well short of a 90.
Oh well, just had to vent. I have 3 more semesters to make my A's(or B's or C's)
Reminds me of the story of the football coach who also taught regular classes.
Student had an exam score just short of the cutoff for an A. Went to the teacher, and said "why can't you give me that last tenth of a point so I can get the grade?". The coach said, "when you were in the football game last Friday night, and you stopped their ball carrier on the one yard line, just inches short of the goal line; did you want the ref to just "give" them the touchdown?" If you don't make it over the goal line, you don't get the touchdown.
When I was posting grades last week, I had a student miss the goal by 0.2 points. I wanted to give it to him so badly! But he didn't do it, he had missed some assignments that would have made a difference. He passed the class, but at the grade he earned, not a gift.
lol You know what always cracks me up about threads like these? Even though the OP isn't throwing a fit saying the school robbed her and she's going to throw a fit, over half the replies are usually "well you didn't EARN the A", "you knew the grading scale, don't complain", "well in MY school....", and other assorted "I have it so much harder than you" comments.
Regardless and in spite of all of the above, it still SUCKS for the OP that she missed it by such a small margin and i'd be bummed too.
This is not to be taken as a snotty comment, just an observation of something that kind of cracks me up everytime I see it happen. I think it should be another one of those "you know you're a nursing student when..." things.
lol You know what always cracks me up about threads like these? Even though the OP isn't throwing a fit Regardless and in spite of all of the above, it still SUCKS for the OP that she missed it by such a small margin and i'd be bummed too.
You're right. Which is why I told her that instructors feel it too.
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
lol You know what always cracks me up about threads like these? Even though the OP isn't throwing a fit saying the school robbed her and she's going to throw a fit, over half the replies are usually "well you didn't EARN the A", "you knew the grading scale, don't complain", "well in MY school....", and other assorted "I have it so much harder than you" comments.
Regardless and in spite of all of the above, it still SUCKS for the OP that she missed it by such a small margin and i'd be bummed too.
This is not to be taken as a snotty comment, just an observation of something that kind of cracks me up everytime I see it happen. I think it should be another one of those "you know you're a nursing student when..." things.
I do agree and the OP asked if it's happened to anyone else, so I don't see anything wrong with people adding that have had it happen to them as well. As far as the other points you made, I do agree though, it's not as if the OP was complaining that it's so unfair and the instructor is mean etc. because of it.
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FLmomof5
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In my Psych Nursing class I got a 92.35......and that is a 'B'! (It took 93 to get an 'A'.)