[Alpha-Omega]

UNIVERSAL GRADE CHANGE FORM

University: ______________________
To: Professor_____________________
From: __________________________



I think my grade in your course,___________________, should be changed from ______ to _______ for the following reasons:

__1. The persons who copied my paper made a higher grade than I did.

__2. The person whose paper I copied made a higher grade than I did.

__3. This course will lower my Grade Point Average and I won't get into:

__Medical School
__Graduate School
__Dental School
__My Fraternity/Sorority
__The Mickey Mouse Club
__Tri County Tech

__4. I have to get an A in this course to balance the F in: _______________.

__5. I'll lose my scholarship.

__6. I'm on a varsity sports team and my tutor couldn't find a copy of your exam.

__7. I didn't come to class and the person whose notes I used did not cover the material asked for on the exam.

__8. I studied the basic principles and the exam wanted every little fact.

__9. I learned all the facts and definitions but your exams asked about general principles.

__10. You are prejudiced against:

__Males
__Jews
__Blacks
__Females
__Catholics
__Whites
__Protestants
__Moslems
__Minorities
__Chicanos
__People
__Students

__11. If I flunk out of school my father will disinherit me or at least cut my allowance.

__12. I was unable to do well in this course because of the following illness:

__mono
__broken baby finger
__acute alcoholism
__pregnancy
__VD
__fatherhood

__13. You told us to be creative but you didn't tell us exactly how you wanted that done.

__14. I was creative and you said I was just shooting the bull.

__15. I don't have a reason; I just want a higher grade.

__16. The lectures were:

__too detailed to pick out important points
__not explained in sufficient detail
__too boring
__all jokes and not enough material
__all of the above

__17. This course was:

__too early, I was not awake.
__at lunchtime, I was hungry
__too late, I was tired

__18. My (dog, cat, gerbil) (ate, wet on, threw up on) my (book, notes, paper) for this course.

__19. Other______________________________
 

[Martingale]

I had a student when I was in graduate school that told me that if she got a D in my class that she would lose her tennis scholarship and therefore she would be deported. 

I didn't change her grade. I ran into her several times the next semester (she always tried to avoid me).  Pretty funny. 

[Alpha-Omega]

I can identify-best one I ever had was kid "who's mother was dying of cancer.  "If I did not give him a C he would not be able to go to Cancun."  Well, mom was not in Cancun...she was supposedly in Kettering....and he missed so many classes, quizzes, exams, he brought dad in for review...OH It went to review..the Chair knew he was lying...changed all his grades on his papers, tests, etc...I could prove the exams...had scantrons....but worksheets are harder...esp when the key was out!!!!!

The Chair and I decided to change the grade ....and the satisfaction I got from that....was there was a girl...she had been ill..and she worked her ass off...so by bringing him up I PASSED HER. and she went on to finish her degree and was very successful!!!! 

In conclusion, sometimes things work out...because see that boy failed his next class and tried to take that professorr to review....and it just did not work out that time!!!!!!

Something to that expression"What goes around comes around."