It's my understanding that once the registrar has posted the final grade on SIS, there's a little leeway for the professor to change it other than your requesting a grade appeal. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Is your official grade an F? Or has only your final percent in the course been released? I ask because when I took Calc 3, the averages were so low (because the exams were extremely difficult) that 50% in the course was a B.
If you did officially get an F in the course, in most circumstances, getting bumped up to a D isn't really going to help you much. Unless you took Calc 3 for fun, you'll need at least a C- in the course for it to be counted as a prerequisite for future courses. That being said, a D may look superficially better on your transcript, but you're going to have to repeat the course regardless. If you don't need Calc 3 for your degree, and you don't plan on repeating, it can't hurt to ask to be bumped up to a D.
I took it as a 5th course this sem, its bullshit because at the beginning of the class, the prof was like "this course will NOT be scaled."
In regards to whether or not it's my official mark, so far it has yet to pop up on Go.SFU, I just calculated what my mark is through my midterm + final scores.
I have no desire to take the course again, i only took it to up my credit count but it has been hell because i couldn't handle it as a 5th course. way too much information.
I'm wishing my mark will be upped a few percentage points to simply just give me the D. I have no clue what I was thinking when I went ahead and signed up for it.
Wait till your final grade hits, then decide if you feel like retaking it. Who was your professor for the class, anyway?
(I've found that the open lab TAs can often be helpful in explaining concepts that really aren't that clear at first glance. You may also want to sit in on a PHYS 221 class because the concepts that come up - div, grad and curl - are used in real, physical situations in electromagnetism. For example rigorous proofs of certain 'laws' of electromagnetism come from theorems like the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem)
All the above applies only if you plan to re-take it of course. :)
Iran1988, In life we face many dissappointments and you'll learn to deal with them as they arrive. Five years down the road you'll remember you failed the class, and laugh because school is no longer in your life.
School is only meant to teach you to persevere at a higher level through self will. In the process you learn some things.
Good luck in the future, and remember its your choice on how you look at this. You could face dissappointments in school, but its much worse outside of school, i.e(lose job, big bills to pay, etc).
As for your teacher refusing to give you a D, think of it like losing a job, and you ask to still keep your job but your boss tells you to fuck off.
I agree with Kc2k8 and others. When I feel blue, I sometimes just look up at stars and realize how small we are in the universe and by extension our problems.
However, as you're dealing with the problem, my suggestion is to talk with your professor again. You can explain your situation that you have told us such as you took more than you could handle. You should not hold him responsible for what he had said regarding scaling; instead, you'd better state that's your own responsibility and all you ask for is his understanding and help. I've never asked professor to bump up my grade, but all professors I've had seem to dislike students who think they deserve certain grade or treatment.
Take the course again later. This time. do your research. Figure out which professor is "easiest" for the course. Don't rush retaking it, and don't retake it with a massive course load. I've found that professors in the summer, for me, have generally been easier (though I doubt this is a general trend).
I have found that they are in fact more lenient in the summer, unless you have a horrible TA like I did with psyc300w.
edit: today my prof bumped me up from an F to a D, but the difference is that I was 0.7% away from it. Even then he almost left me shitting bricks because he was so reluctant to give any leeway.
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If you did officially get an F in the course, in most circumstances, getting bumped up to a D isn't really going to help you much. Unless you took Calc 3 for fun, you'll need at least a C- in the course for it to be counted as a prerequisite for future courses. That being said, a D may look superficially better on your transcript, but you're going to have to repeat the course regardless. If you don't need Calc 3 for your degree, and you don't plan on repeating, it can't hurt to ask to be bumped up to a D.
In regards to whether or not it's my official mark, so far it has yet to pop up on Go.SFU, I just calculated what my mark is through my midterm + final scores.
I have no desire to take the course again, i only took it to up my credit count but it has been hell because i couldn't handle it as a 5th course. way too much information.
I'm wishing my mark will be upped a few percentage points to simply just give me the D. I have no clue what I was thinking when I went ahead and signed up for it.
(I've found that the open lab TAs can often be helpful in explaining concepts that really aren't that clear at first glance. You may also want to sit in on a PHYS 221 class because the concepts that come up - div, grad and curl - are used in real, physical situations in electromagnetism. For example rigorous proofs of certain 'laws' of electromagnetism come from theorems like the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem)
All the above applies only if you plan to re-take it of course. :)
School is only meant to teach you to persevere at a higher level through self will. In the process you learn some things.
Good luck in the future, and remember its your choice on how you look at this. You could face dissappointments in school, but its much worse outside of school, i.e(lose job, big bills to pay, etc).
As for your teacher refusing to give you a D, think of it like losing a job, and you ask to still keep your job but your boss tells you to fuck off.
:)
However, as you're dealing with the problem, my suggestion is to talk with your professor again. You can explain your situation that you have told us such as you took more than you could handle. You should not hold him responsible for what he had said regarding scaling; instead, you'd better state that's your own responsibility and all you ask for is his understanding and help. I've never asked professor to bump up my grade, but all professors I've had seem to dislike students who think they deserve certain grade or treatment.
Good Luck!
edit: today my prof bumped me up from an F to a D, but the difference is that I was 0.7% away from it. Even then he almost left me shitting bricks because he was so reluctant to give any leeway.