hmm well if he changed it to be in-line with university policy that makes sense to me :dunno:

 

I'll see what he says back

 

He should have changed it after the class was over, end of story.

 

Honestly i don't see the big deal with changing the syllabus half-way through. I doubt he did it just to 'get you'. The teachers here do shit like that all the time. They often times curve AGAINST you, and you don't know what your final grade will be until after the class is over. It depends on the distribution -- often times in a bi-modal distribution we have teachers who lower the high grades and raise the low grades to make it more bell shaped and less bi-modal.

The med school classes here curve you based on other students (which i find very reasonable if they average and throw out the outliers).

 

But at the same time, they'll usually tell you up front that they're curving based on other students. If you've established a certain rubric on which you're grading your students, they're commiting the the class. In most universities, once the class is half over, you don't have an opportunity to drop the class if you don't agree to the new grading criteria.

 

True with med school classes -- but in most of MY classes (non-med school) the teachers do as they please so we just do the best we can do no excuses. Regardless how the teacher makes the syllabus you get the same grade whether it was changed half-way through or the final version was presented first. So I say just do the best you can do no matter what (even if you have a 100% you just never know).

Also, we can withdraw from a class up to the last day, up to the day before finals.

If its really a GPA killer you should probably talk it over with the professor, but I think the grading scheme is always able to change because it applies to the whole class and doesn't negatively affect 1 student.

 

Whenever my teachers graded on a curve, I always busted my hump to make sure I was on the top of it.

It's like that joke with the two guys running from the bear. I don't have to be faster than the bear, I just have to be faster than YOU.

 

He didn't change it half way through..I triple checked my grade yesterday off of the online syllabus (which was still the same as day 1) im all cool cause it matches....Wake up to find a B- on my record and the syllabus is all of a sudden changed..So he changed the syllabus after the class was over...

 

SUCCESS!!!

Kinda got shitty with me in the final email saying that he discussed it on several occasions(which he did not)...Changed it from a B- to a B..FUCK YEAH

 

You really needed a third of a grade that badly?