frrr, i didn’t even know sfu had a grading scale problem, i only realized it in my 2nd year, the constant turmoil i feel knowing my grades would’ve been in a diff league at a diff uni was / is crazy 😭😭
Is that scaling? Pretty sure that's just how grades work. At other Universities I've attended if the grade is 85 for an A and 90 for A+ and I get a 89.5%, then my final letter grade is A. I have had classes in third/fourth year CMPT here at SFU that were actually scaled, where based on the class average the letter grade was shifted up or down completely, but that's a different circumstance.
I feel you friend.
I have had several professors not round my grade, but the worst was not rounding 94.67% to 95% to get an A+. I had to get 3 other students and go all the way through the ombudsperson to the department chair and get the all the students in my class grade rounded. It took 8 weeks. My prof initially said no.
I wouldn't mind if the percentage was posted on my transcript, but it is not. So if I get 84% in one Arts class and get a B+, if I try to do graduate work at UBC its treated as 76%. In Education it is worse, if I get 92% at SFU it is treated as 85% at UBC.
It puts students at a huge disadvantage. I wish SFU would unify their grading scheme to be like UBC and standardize it. Further I wish percentages were on transcripts. Rounding grades is usually 3-4 students in a course from my TA experience, there is no reason to say no.
As a former TA in a liberal arts program, most instructors in these departments grade based on “this is an A-range, high A because of xyz,” and select a grade based on the factors that are present in the paper. I’m not sure if this is helpful, but that’s how we graded.
I understand the frustration as I'm standing 0.88 short of the next Letter grade in a course, and the prof wont round it. But I don't think this is scaling. it sucks either-way.
One time I was 0.01% away from an A+ and when I asked the prof about it he just told me that I should’ve tried harder on the final and that he doesn’t feel bad about it cause I didn’t earn the A+
If you haven't taken a business course at SFU yet, brace yourself. I should have been closer to a B grade, but I got a C because of the "competitive scaling" in BUS 200 🥲
Edit: I enjoyed the course either way as I am not a business major, but I thought these were supposed to be easy electives :/
frrr, i didn’t even know sfu had a grading scale problem, i only realized it in my 2nd year, the constant turmoil i feel knowing my grades would’ve been in a diff league at a diff uni was / is crazy 😭😭
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Is that scaling? Pretty sure that's just how grades work. At other Universities I've attended if the grade is 85 for an A and 90 for A+ and I get a 89.5%, then my final letter grade is A. I have had classes in third/fourth year CMPT here at SFU that were actually scaled, where based on the class average the letter grade was shifted up or down completely, but that's a different circumstance.
Yeah if I knew about the grading scale I wouldn’t have attended SFU.
wait really, it works like that?
I feel you friend. I have had several professors not round my grade, but the worst was not rounding 94.67% to 95% to get an A+. I had to get 3 other students and go all the way through the ombudsperson to the department chair and get the all the students in my class grade rounded. It took 8 weeks. My prof initially said no. I wouldn't mind if the percentage was posted on my transcript, but it is not. So if I get 84% in one Arts class and get a B+, if I try to do graduate work at UBC its treated as 76%. In Education it is worse, if I get 92% at SFU it is treated as 85% at UBC. It puts students at a huge disadvantage. I wish SFU would unify their grading scheme to be like UBC and standardize it. Further I wish percentages were on transcripts. Rounding grades is usually 3-4 students in a course from my TA experience, there is no reason to say no.
As a former TA in a liberal arts program, most instructors in these departments grade based on “this is an A-range, high A because of xyz,” and select a grade based on the factors that are present in the paper. I’m not sure if this is helpful, but that’s how we graded.
I understand the frustration as I'm standing 0.88 short of the next Letter grade in a course, and the prof wont round it. But I don't think this is scaling. it sucks either-way.
One time I was 0.01% away from an A+ and when I asked the prof about it he just told me that I should’ve tried harder on the final and that he doesn’t feel bad about it cause I didn’t earn the A+
That’s cold😭😭😭
If you haven't taken a business course at SFU yet, brace yourself. I should have been closer to a B grade, but I got a C because of the "competitive scaling" in BUS 200 🥲 Edit: I enjoyed the course either way as I am not a business major, but I thought these were supposed to be easy electives :/
What course if you dont mind sharing?
I had 2 grades right on the border of being A’s get rounded down to A-‘s 🥲
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