Yulia Smirnova Blog # 6

Grades play a very important part in students' life. Our grades show us our knowledge. Our GPA is shown in our resume, so when you want to find job, employers will look on your GPA first. That's why all students try to have good grades. But nowadays we have problems in grading. I think that all teachers have different method of grades. For example, in My math class A is 100-90%,A- is 89%-80% and so on. But on my Sociology class A is 100% -95%,A - is 94%-90% and so on. So here we can see the difference how two different people grade exams. Also a lot of professors dropped quizes with lowest grades or they give extra credits for some assighments. So it is easy to get good grade. Also sometimes teachers overstimate grades for students, because they don't want to have any troubles. For example, one of my suitmates had bad grades in Calc. She had lower than 30% in her exams. So she was gonna fail this course. But her teacher did excusse for her, and gave her D(in her class to have D is more than 55%). I don't understand why proffesors do this. Now my suitmate takes Calk 2, and she has more troubles with itthis semster. She did not understand the material from last semster, and she has more new material which is more difficult. Moreover she has another professor who is not so kind. She has a big opportunity to fail this course. The professors do worse to students when they overestimate grades. I think that teachers give a lot of exusses to students. And students don't work so hard,because they know that teachers will try to give them higher grades anyway. I consider that this is one of the important problems nowadays.