Napoleon Bonaparte

Hmmm point noted. Looks like the overwhelming majority concur that the fault is on my side. Anyway, my actual intention was to clarify if I was the one who erred or not [and not to take a warpath against the prof...] Ok thank you so much everyone. I have come to the conclusion that I could have done better [eventhough I feel what has happened to me is a little harsh]. But this is a good lesson on why not to ignore the most trivial things. Anyway thank you all for your insights. I appreciate it. It will be really great if mods can delete this thread. I dont want to sound like a whiner.

Anyway, thanks everyone for your time. I will try to do something about it. In the mean while I will be greatful if mods delete this thread as this issue is sorted out. Thank you

No, I think it matters because. For others their score was average of 5 Assignments + Homeworks + 1 Midterm. But for me it was average if 5 Assignments + Homeworks +1 Midterm + 1 Finals. An incredibly dull analogy would be to compare speed of two people, one of whom run only 100 meters while the other run 200 meters. Obviously the one who run larger distance will have lower average speed than the former [for obvious reasons]. This dosent meant that the latter has lower performance than the former.

Thanks a lot rouge for your reply. The coursework (in your context) covered only about 50% of the syllabus. The other 50% was covered in the finals. So finals definitely wasnt intended to test cumulative knowledge of the course work because, it covered only the second half of the syllabus. And the grading was absolute. It was not curved.

Or for that matter of fact, had everybody taken the finals, then the class average would have gone down and I would still be getting a B despite the fact that I had not submitted that one assignment.

This is my story. One of my courses this spring had the following breakup. 1. 10% for 5 paper critiquing assignments 2. 15% for homework 2. 25% for 2 projects 3. 25% for midterm 4. 25% for finals Of the five paper critiquing assignments, I had not submitted one assignment. Now the last week before the finals everyone in my class requested for a final exam waiver. The prof thought about it for a while and agreed to give a final exam waiver to anyone who had submitted all the assignments. This rule he came up two days before the exam. Also he said that if anyone goes for the waiver then their grades would be as follows depending on their present average. >85 A 77-85 B <77 C At that point of time I had 83.5 as my average. I would have got a B had I opted for the waiver. As I mentioned, I had not submitted one assignment. So he forced me to take the final exam. Most others got waiver. The finals was tough. So I could not score very well in it. My total average went down from 83.5 to 72. Because of that he gave me a C. Now my question is 1. Is it fair to compare my score to that of others (since I have completed all the 100% of the course work while others have completed only 75%) 2. Do I have a case to pursue this further?