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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 the best grade in class on my economics midterm. Rather than tell me I did a good job, my professor criticized me in front of everyone about how I was working "too hard". 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
Today, after dropping a class for the first time ever in college in order to focus on raising my grades, I failed the test that I dropped another course to study for. By not finishing on time. After 3 days of studying. FML
Today, I overslept and missed both of my morning classes. I was supposed to lead an instructional discussion in my communications class that was worth a lot of points. Now my grade has dropped from an A to an F. FML
Today, I got my grades back. I got a very poor evaluation for my lit class, which was odd because it didn't match the impression from my end-of-class meeting with the professor. It does, however, include a nod to the supposedly-anonymous negative class review I gave her, though. 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, my math teacher brought his laptop to tally up all our scores for our report card. He then displayed the results on a big screen in front of the whole class. The ones who failed were marked yellow. I was the only one marked yellow. FML
Today, my college instructor told me I hadn't actually failed a big exam as he originally said. It turns out he'd mixed me up with another student. Now thanks to the power of gossip, half my class thinks I slept with him so he'd switch my grade with the other student's. FML
Today, I finally found out why I got a D in a class last semester. It was a heavily attendance-based class, and apparently he only marked you present if you participated in class discussion. It was a 100-seat lecture. FML
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BeautyMonster 17
Are they even allowed to do that?
Ninjafriends 1
"My class was too smart" is a fancy way of saying "I was too stupid"
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Comments (132)
Dark_Charizard 0
Ha. Sucks for you.
Bobissmall 13
Sounds like an American thing. FYL for being born in a ridiculous country.
brianjman14 23
Another thing that makes my country America look bad. I want to say that America is good, but they aren't helping that much!
Casrein 0
Since you're Asian you wouldn't understand being at the bottom of the class :(
Acousticpixie14 6
That is so bogus....for sooo many reasons. 1) Have you ever heard of a thing called studying? Not cramming the night before....but studying consistently throughout the semester, not partying. 2) Are you freakin kidding me? "Sorry, you all worked too hard so I have to lower your grade." Yeah, the whole thing sucks, but if you had STUDIED then you wouldn't be failing. Obviously it wasn't too hard of a class if people did too well.
dragead12 0
It's a policy some schools have to prevent teachers from giving too much credit. IT could be a case where the teacher did give too much credit, or it could be a case of one class having and shit-ton of smart people. If the grade was curved, someone has to fail, so he could have been at the bottom of the class, but could have had something like a 90%, with everyone having higher grades. Still, he thought he was going to pass and have every reason to believe it until the grades came out. It's the same as your boss telling you you're going to get a big bonus, but your bonus was canceled because the other workers worked too well.
Acousticpixie14 6
I understand the concept. And it's the average that matters, as stated above. Therefore, the grades only needed to be lowered enough to bring the average to where it needed to be. Unless they wanted the average to be failing, there was no reason for him to fail
Doortje 30
No, that's why dumb people hate teachers.
SamSayzRAWRZ 0
Wow. I'm not sure that's possible...
TheFailGopher 0
Not in a sane way...
dog_in_yard 0
Hold on though; unless everyone failed, your mark must have been quite low if scaling it back caused you to fail.
tigrouficele2012 44
Yeah, that's basically what I came here to say...therefore, YPDI (you probably deserved it).
Kirablahblah 0
Shame on you for not taking the class seriously enough to work for the grade. If a scale-back caused you to fail, you weren't doing well in the first place. YDI, and I hope you learn from your mistake.
hail_this_villai 0
Agreed 100%. If it's worth your time, it's worth doing it right!
betty66 3
That's not right... I'd be so pissed
QueenPersephone 9
Don't worry, when you eventually flunk out McDonalds will still be hiring.