By dumb4$$0rz - 23/12/2010 21:01 - United States

Today, the grades for one of my courses were released. The class average was higher than that which the department allowed, so the professor had to scale everyone's marks down to meet the policy. I ended up failing because my class was too smart. FML
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BeautyMonster 17

Are they even allowed to do that?

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Ninjafriends 1

"My class was too smart" is a fancy way of saying "I was too stupid"

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Doortje 29

It's probably because there's a certain limit to how good grades can be, without being false. They did this once at my university and it turned out a lot of people had the exam beforehand and thus cheated.

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warpig182 0

There is not limit the op is just ****** stupid

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DocBastard 38

No, you failed because you failed. If you had studied harder, you would have been at the top of the scale rather than the bottom. Don't blame someone or something else for your own failures. Learn to take some goddamed responsibility for yourself.

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Bobissmall 13

While true doc, they would have passed if they were in a different class, so it's still a FYL

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sourgirl101 28

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callmecourtney 3

If you truly earned a passing grade, take it to the dean - bring all the graded work you have from the class.

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BWill9014 4

Hack those bastards and change your grade just like in the movies cuz that's obviously possible

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EdmTeacherGirl 2

This happened to me in University too. I don't know if it's an "official" policy, but departments have a range in which grades in a particular level (for example, a 300-level class) are supposed to fall, and if they are too high, the whole class gets scaled down. A more accurate statement would be "The whole class got scaled down because the prof liked us TOO much and marked us too leniently".

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Blondie05_fml 0

thats what I was thinking

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Jonah171 12

That's crap. I don't see why this would be legal. The professor was forced to fail you and it was for no reason except the fact that the class got good grades. I could imagine you suing for this, and it wouldn't even be uncalled for.

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jberranner 0

I agree, it is not legal, at least where I'm from, to scale down your grade unless there was a curve to begin with. if this cause you to fail the course I would definitely take issue with it

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underpaid011 0

grades for one of my courses WAS released.

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Doortje 29

No, the grades of his fellow students for that particular course were released as well, so 'were' is correct.

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wanmyg 0

grades = plural; WERE is correct not WAS. "grades" is the subject if it is "one of the grades" then WAS is the correct verb

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BergonBerry 0

I disagree with you. " Were " is correct; not " was ". Sorry to correct your not exactly brilliant grammar :) Try a Kindergarten leveled English class, it may help you considering I knew this stuff in Kindergarten.

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xundria 5

They are right, were is correct. Grades being the subject since "of my courses" is a prepositional phrase.

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MuchDance90s 0

you know what a prepositional phrase is AND you're cute . . . not possible 8-p

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cantdeleteaccount 2

if you want to correct someones grammar then make sure you dont make yourself look retarded in the process

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pathus22 0

It is a curve. Given that about 90% of people are ******* retards and you ranked in the bottom 5% ( since you got an F in a curved class) you must be literally retarded. The world needs janitors too.

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