extremely frustrated...

[ghostdog]

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has anyone received what they considered an unfair grade for a PBL class (not basic science) and appealed?

 

[Mayhem]

All PBL grades are unfair. There's always somebody who doesn't do squat and drags everyone else down. It only works out for you if you're the slacker. As for appealing grades: I've never done that and I've never known it to work. But what do you have to lose?

 

[bydotte]

i had it work, but i got an even MORE unfair grade later and was powerless to appeal again. i did it anyway and ended up just looking like a whiner, even to me.

 

[SnowTown]

i've gotten a couple slightly below average pbl grades that made me missed the grade cut off point by less than 0.1 points... twice.

i shrugged it off and moved on




























ok i lied... i let out a few choice words and then moved on

 

[BozoSparky]

at my school, these grades were not important...i know they can sting though! is it really worth the fight?

3rd year clinical grades/evals are much much more critical.

 

[CorazonDoc]

I'll answer BozoSparky's question:

It's not worth the fight. It seems like everyone I know in med school has either received an unfair grade (something that happens more often in the clinical years because of the subjectivity of evaluations) or missed the cutoff by .00001% or something similar.

Being able to move past this early really helps you manage the stress in the later med school years. Also, one marginal grade doesn't hurt you.

 

[OncoCaP]

Forget it. Move on.

 

[ghostdog]

if it were between an ACB yeah, forget it i'd say

but if you missed passing by a point, in a class like that, wouldn't you fight?

 

[Mayhem]

Of course! I thought it was a low pass. I'll always fight to pass a class. It's only a mark and you have everything to gain. The worst they can say is no, in which case you already didn't pass. Stop talking to us and go write an appeal letter.