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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Comments (132)
interesting33 37
That is SO unfair! Soemthign should be done! Get some publicity from a local paper? Petition?
bethm300 5
That teacher should have gotten an award or something.
chinagirl3343 8
Take it to the dean. Professors have a funny way of changing their minds when their boss gets involved.
lina_bean 5
Ugg smart ppl ruining curves!
ichoosetobe 10
It's called a bell curve.... this happened to me in highschool. Get over it
Breegotcake 14
I don't think that is legal; couldn't that mess with people's overall GPA and stuff? Why is everyone assuming op is stupid?! Maybe they was having a hard time in the class & tried their best. I know everyone had a class at some point in their life that they struggled in and did everything they could do to get a good grade.
erin37 27
If you do VCE, in Vic Aus, that's how it always is. Deal with it.
worldclassrager 41
Seriously? Come on you are all smart does that matter...what's really out there if that is an honors class...
Ninjataco1234 4
How can grades be higher than the teachers allow?
mixximoo 24
This makes no sense. Wouldn't the professor be rewarded if majority of his class scored high marks, instead of having to scale it down?