From: Joe
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 6:51 PM
To: lowery@tamu.edu
Subject: Final Grades
Howdy Dr Lowery,
I am in your course and after the final exam, I am very worried about my chances on passing the course. Will you be having office hours this Wednesday or tomorrow so I can discuss how my grade may end up in the course?
Thanks
Joe
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Lowery Jr, Lee L <lowery@civil.tamu.edu> wrote:
Joe:
I’m really sorry, but until I finish making out final exams, give them, get them all graded including yours, and submitted to the university, I will be consumed by just that. Grades go in Monday lunch and I can meet with you after that.
L^3
From: Joe
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 7:01 PM
To: Lowery Jr, Lee L <lowery@civil.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: Final Grades
Sadly I will be back home for the holidays during that time, would you happen to know then my quiz grades for the course? This will at least give me an indication of where I am and whether or not I will pass the course as I feel I failed miserably on the final.
Joe
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Lowery Jr, Lee L <lowery@civil.tamu.edu> wrote:
You should be able to just average the grades returned to you, but I went and looked them up and your other grades aren’t that bad at all. Your average before the final is a 75. Sorry, but I am going to have to stop answering the hundreds of emails I am now getting until I make out my other finals and grade and submit them.
L^3
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Joe wrote:
Thank you, and yes but I needed to make a 56 I believe on my final to get a C and I genuinely think I did not reach that. Thank you again.
Joe
From: Joe [mailto:Joe@1.ag]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 10:21 PM
To: Lowery Jr, Lee L <lowery@civil.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: Final Grades
Howdy Dr. Lowery,
I have just been calculating my expected grade in the course just based on the score I will most likely make on your final exam and am expected to get a D. Is there anything I can do to make up my poor final grade to get myself back in the passing range? I do not want a failure in this course to hold me back as I continue towards my degree.
Thanks and Gig Em
Joe
From: Lowery Jr, Lee L
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:49 AM
To: Joe@1.ag
Subject: RE: Final Grades
Joe:
As always, students constantly come crying about how they are sure they failed the exam miserably and can they please do extra work or retake their lowest exam even though that would obviously require that I call the other 89 students in the class back in on Christmas to give everyone the same opportunity to raise their grade, and on and on, in utter despair.
And then they make a 70 on their final.
That’s why I simply cannot meet with all 60 of you before the exams are graded. Even reading and answering the dozen emails you generated (times 59 other students) while trying to get the exams graded and get your grades into the University, slows getting them in on time horribly. Yet I understand the angst you experience during exams, so about all I can do is try and balance the need to get them graded and to keep you mentally stable until the process grinds to an end.
You made a 70 on your final.
L^3