Reply #3: He went too far, but [View All]

Though going to court seems to be going a little too far I think the student has a point. The assistant seemed to create a very subjective if not totally arbitrary grading system. In my college experience a 92.5 would have definitely put you in the A- area. If that level puts you at a C on a curve that means the vast majority of the class scored in the 90+ range. The fact that apparently the class was too easy isn't the students fault. There needs to be some clarification 1) Were the students told the class would be graded on an overall curve when the course started 2) Were the students told that the final of the 3 tests would have more weight than the first 2 3) Were the students told that if the assitant decided your objective grade didn't match his/her subjective evaluation of your work that the assitant had the right to assign an arbitrary grade. I get the feeling that there is more to this than just the grade as in maybe a personal problem between the student and assitant. One experience I had in collage was in a class where we had to turn in a short paper each week each worth 10 points. For the first part of the class the teacher graded these papers and I and a friend of mine were getting consistent 9-10 on our papers. When the assitant took over the grading all of a sudden our papers were in the 5-6 range. On complaining to the instructor (we knew the professor from previous classes) he decided that he would grade our papers from then on and our scores went back to the 9-10 range. I guess in the end what I am saying to those that may not have college experience or have experience but never ran into this problem is that some of these graduate assitants can be a real pain in the ass!