what happen if I don't receive my final grade by today
05-02-2011 at 03:21 PM
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what happen if I don't receive my final grade by today
I have one course that have no mark up yet
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05-02-2011 at 03:26 PM
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You'll have to wait till May 30th for the final upload of the grades.  |
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05-02-2011 at 03:27 PM
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You'll have to wait till May 30th for the final upload of the grades. |
but isn't interim grade supposed to be up by today? |
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05-02-2011 at 03:58 PM
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Um...if you mean what I think you mean, then...
They upload as many grades as have been marked and given to the registrar, and then you get all of them together on the 30th. So maybe your courses which don't have any grades up haven't been marked yet/processed by the department.
Take this with a grain of salt, since I'm still a first year and not so sure about what goes on!
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05-02-2011 at 04:15 PM
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If your grades arent up by the end of todat then you will have to wait till May 30th for them to appear. I know it sucks but I've come to expect this from Mcmaster. LOL
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05-02-2011 at 05:05 PM
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we have until 10 tonight?
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05-02-2011 at 05:24 PM
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Grades are posted once daily. If your grades are not showing then please check back the next business day.
Interim Grade Reports:
Interim Grade reports for all Undergraduate students will be posted as follows: - Term 1 and Term 3 (mid-term) - Thursday, December 23, 2010 to Wednesday, April 6, 2011
- Term 2 and Term 3 - Wednesday, April 27, 2011 to Monday May 2, 2011
After May 2, 2011 the Undergraduate Academic Reviewing process will be under way and no further Interim Grade updates will be posted until the Final Grade reports are released.
Final Grade Reports: - Final Grade reports for Undergraduate students who are Potential Graduands for the Spring 2011 Convocations will be released on Friday, May 13, 2011.
- Final Grade reports for all Undergraduate In-Course (returning) students will be released on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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05-02-2011 at 06:13 PM
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If your grades arent up by the end of todat then you will have to wait till May 30th for them to appear. I know it sucks but I've come to expect this from Mcmaster. LOL
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wow that's really great... now i will have to sumemr school whether i get 5 or below cuz i won't know if i passed or failed.. |
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05-02-2011 at 06:23 PM
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Stupid Bio 1M03...  How hard is it to mark scantrons? |
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05-02-2011 at 06:27 PM
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^...rhetorical, but....
Scantrons are just placed on a pile, and a machine goes through them 1-2 per second, fully marked. The hardest thing about marking scantrons is recording the mark on each scantron. I don't think there's software for that. It's done manually by typing them into the computer.
However, I don't think it's really excusable, considering that there's more students taking Psych, yet they have been finished for a long time now...
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05-02-2011 at 06:30 PM
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Ugh, they have to input the marks by hand? How tedious.
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05-02-2011 at 06:53 PM
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For some courses, the professor and TAs go through the Scantron sheets manually after the machine does it to make sure that it didn't make any mistakes (e.g., say you didn't erase a mistake well enough and the machine picked it up as your answer, for example).
Additionally, some professors look through to see if there were patterns in students' answers. For example, if the correct answer for a question was D and they see that a large number of students chose C, they might consider giving a mark for option C as well if it's possible that the question could have been misleading, or that C was a correct answer as well.
Sometimes if you have a really good professor, the reason marks aren't out early is because the professor is trying to make sure that you got the marks you deserved by doing things like these. They seem like little things that shouldn't take much time, and having so many TAs marking in these courses helps, but it all adds up. And considering these professors may be teaching several large classes, not to mention fourth-year courses (when marks need to be in as soon as possible for graduating students), it's reasonable that they take a lot of time to do all this.
It does suck for people who are on the pass/fail line and need to make decisions about summer school, though.
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05-02-2011 at 07:13 PM
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I'm a first year commerce student and haven't gotten my mark yet should I be concerned?
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05-02-2011 at 07:15 PM
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I'm a first year commerce student and haven't gotten my mark yet should I be concerned?
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If you haven't got your mark (it says nothing beside the course on your degree audit or grade report), it just means they haven't been put in yet. If it says 0, then you should be concerned. No worries!
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05-02-2011 at 07:16 PM
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I'm a first year commerce student and haven't gotten my mark yet should I be concerned?
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u talking about commerce 1e03 right?
im in commerce to  |
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