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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Chandy_fml 2
It's possible to fail even if you studied. I had one class where the class had median grades of 0% on quizzes because the expectations were unreasonable, and he didn't believe in curving. I spent about 30 hours of my time each week doing work and studying for that class and I still only got a D. It made me realize that I'd be miserable in chemical engineering and chemistry is a much better match for me. I breezed through physical chemistry this semester... and now I'm mad because this past semester the class had a different professor and people who are taking both that class and physical chemistry said that that class is much easier than physical chemistry.
odi_et_amo 4
Either: 1) You went to some weird school where a D was failing -OR- 2) You contradicted yourself
iSolDyourSouL 0
That is the biggest load of bs I've ever heard. How can they allow that?! Take them to court, OP!!!
cbnano12 0
this is sooooo fake
nightDREAMERms 6
Well, when you work on a bell curve the content of the exam is not relevant. It's all a numbers thing, averaging scores and what-not. Going by the following Grading Scale: A- 90%-100% B- 80%-89% C- 70%-79% D- 60%-69% F- 0%-59% Basically, let's say the average (which can be determined in a multitude of ways) score in the class was a 62%. On the bell curve, this grade will be regarded as an 'average' "C," rather than a 'just-passing' "D". All other scores are then rearranged to match the new grading 'curve.' (I.e. a 56% is now a "D" and 76% is a "B") Otherwise, in many exams, partial credit is given if the test is not multiple choice. Thus, an instructor may grade more leniently or strictly than others. If this is so, then the instructor may have been told to go back and grade more strictly, giving out less to no partial credit for incorrect answers. :)
fthku 13
Only Americans can come up with something this dumb. No offense to ALL Americans. Just some.
supahnazi 0
y would the school mark them down for getting good grades? u should take this to court because it caused u to fail a class
yellow_alpaca 0
My grandmother was a teacher in India (yonks ago) when she was 19. When she came to the school it was a mess, she cleaned it up, did basic things like lesson plans, and at the end of the year every single child in that school passed the exam. The headmaster said they had to fail a student so it didn't look like the school was cheating. My grandmother remembered the name of that girl till the day she died. I'm guessing that girl had no future.
Krissy3 0
Mediocracy RULES!!!!! lmao jk that's ridiculous..
Xaviexis 6
Either the course load is too easy or the teacher is too good. Either way, it's not the student's fault.
DanielT1994 19
Damn bell curves.