Today, I found out I got a 97 on my physics final exam. I was curious about the question I missed, so I went up to my teacher and asked. He was very confused and checked my grade again before telling me, "Oh my bad, it was meant to be a 79." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finished an exam in physics class. It counts for 40% of our grade. As I handed my paper in to my teacher, she said to the whole class while talking about me, "You did this wrong; this isn't how you do it." FML
Today, I got my precalculus final back from my teacher. I got a 17%. I told her that there had to be some mistake, because my classmate had the same answers as me and she got 100%. Not only did I accidentally admit to cheating, but our test papers had different questions. FML
Today, I dropped my physics class because I thought I bombed the 50% second midterm test. I got my results an hour after dropping online. I finished with an 83. I can't get back into the course. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, I asked my classmate if she was ready for the final tomorrow and she said it was yesterday. I'm not a bad student - I have 90+ average in the class - but the final was 50% of my grade. FML
Today, as I went into my calculus class, the teacher announced that someone had received a negative grade on the test we were getting back. I laughed and said, "Which f*cker managed to get a negative?" Turns out I'm the dumbass. FML
Today, I discovered that when my professor had said "For every A there will be an F," he was deadly serious. I earned a 94% mark, which in this class is known as a D. FML
Today, I got an Economics test back from my professor. I got a 17/20. I looked it over and noticed one of the questions was completely right. I checked the textbook he made and the answer was the same. I asked him why it was wrong, and he responded with, "I guess I changed my mind." FML
Today, I passed my math test with flying colors. My dad thought I had cheated, so he emailed the school and told them that I had. They lowered my grade. FML
Today, I got my results on a recent, important midterm. During the exam, I'd noticed my instructor had accidentally left an answers page in the test packet, so being honest, I didn't look at them. It turns out she did it on purpose to help us pass. I failed. FML
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FueledByFate 24
Sometimes it's better to leave well enough alone.
lusanna 19
Curiosity kills the cat
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FueledByFate 24
Sometimes it's better to leave well enough alone.
UltimateBob 11
The grade was already 79, he just wrote it wrong on the paper he gave to them, the place he had it written down on would be his grade book he uses to input grades into the system. They just found out what their actual grade was
lusanna 19
Curiosity kills the cat
Welshite 40
Poor Curiosity. 250 million miles away on a completely different planet, and the rover STILL gets blamed for killing pets.
splinteredApple 36
"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back." is the full quote.
josace 9
# 15, no it's not. And there was a translation error. The saying was originally worry/stress killed the cat.
CharmedFML 9
Actually, he is right. That is the full quote.
Punisher141 13
Curiosity did kill the cat but the cat died happy.
HyperTek 16
Nah the full quote is like 4 lines
leafynitemare 24
meow~ *dead* How dare that Mars rover be allowed to murder cats at will.
DarkSerebii 11
97 is good enough, so I would've left it at that.
BabooonLove 16
Nothing wrong with trying to know what you got wrong so you can improve for the future.
cwade71 17
It's one question, depending on the test, so it shouldn't matter that much if you got it wrong
A713_fml 19
Honestly, years ago I got 99% in a mid-year math exam. I was sick for a couple of days when the teacher explained what made me lose that one point, but I still didn't bother asking. Well, that one thing I didn't understand came back at the final exam more than once, and even when the next school year began, I still remember that there were three important questions about that same thing on the first exam, and on those two exams I did lose many points-and finally learned the hard way. I'm just saying, in my case it appeared to be just a small detail the day I got 99%, and yet you never know what may happen... There will always be show-offs, asking simply for the attention, but I learned that it's also useful to discretely ask someone what you did wrong so that you can understand right away. When you don't know what you actually got wrong, you can only ask the teacher.
MisterEx 28
If only the original grade/mark was 96. "Creepy smile and long stare".
dtut 15
I don't understand how this got so many thumbs down! ?
fuckfuckityfuck 16
They hate us because they anus. Jk. I'm going to the door.
expertsmilee 26
I'm pretty sure it's because the derps aren't smert enuff to get the jowk
MisterEx 28
It's OK you guys. save yourselves. it's too late for me. I regret nothing. I love you mom.
Youre_A_Pussy 19
Did he change your grade back down?
Beeboopbeep 9
I'd assume so, as that's what any decent teacher would do.
Youre_A_Pussy 19
Well that's a big mistake there, but my teachers said that if they incorrectly marked an answer wrong they'd change it but not vice versa
Ben14h 22
Yeah but there is a big difference between a 79 and a 97, especially on a final exam
missluca1994 14
At least it wasn't a 91
tbro47 23
Most teachers that I've had generally said that if they made a mistake and gave a higher grade they'd leave it as is because it was there mistake. That being said there's a huge difference between a 97 and 79 I doubt any teacher would give a student two letter grades higher than deserved without being forced to curve the entire classes scores to stay fair.
Shade1982 21
I've actually heard of some schools having a global policy of teachers not being allowed to change grades down, which I've personally always found nonsense...
chinaski7628 32
I'm a teacher. My policy has always been that if I make an error, I give the student the higher mark, but I don't think I've ever made that big of an error. I don't think, in good conscience, I could give a student an A when he deserved a C.
thebiteof87 27
*Their
arano 29
You just had to be an overachiever.
dihannasaurus 9
oh shit
vicfirthfan 11
waddup!
Oppression_fml 19
You were greedy. You paid for it.
MandieL 27
How was OP greedy? They wanted to check on the answer they got wrong, probably in hopes of learning from it. I always went over my tests and looked at my wrong answers. What's the point of having tests, if not to see what areas you need to work on?