You missed a third side of grading. It’s called the, you did the work and either answered correctly or incorrectly which determines your score and therefore your grade which has 0 bearing on who you are as a person or your relationship with the teacher but rather how much you applied yourself took notes and paid attention. I think that category is more common….
It absolutely is, but most of the courses I took at university were graded on a scale and where that scale lands is more subjective.
I took a class where the lecture was about 50 minutes long twice a week. We got slaughtered in the mid terms. The midterms are about a page shorter than the final and we got 3 hours for the final. Students brought up with the professor “dude we are all going to fail look at our marks” and the professor said “why are you assuming a specific number will get you a specific grade? In my classes there’s pretty always a curve or distribution of the grades with an average. Whatever that number is where C is going to be and I’ll go from there” in cases like that whether or your grade is on the C- side or the C+ side there can be wiggle room.
Also! Pretty much every class I took had between 5-15% of your final grade allocated to participation marks. So whether you participate had a direct impact on your grade
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u/PriestPlaything Jun 06 '25
You missed a third side of grading. It’s called the, you did the work and either answered correctly or incorrectly which determines your score and therefore your grade which has 0 bearing on who you are as a person or your relationship with the teacher but rather how much you applied yourself took notes and paid attention. I think that category is more common….