My prof told us at the beginning of class how he distributed grade cut offs during the first lecture. He said "The average of every exam will be the low cut off of a B letter grade, 1 standard deviation above the average will be an A, 2 standard deviations below the average is failing.
So throughout the semester he posted the exam averages and letter grade distribution for each exam on his google sites announcements.
Well now he posted grades and they are not how they should be whatsoever. According to the grade distribution cut offs he's been posting online and the score of my final exam (not using any curve on the final for letter grade distribution) I am 20 points above what should be needed for an A. But on eLearning I have a B. Keep in mind this is a 300 point class so 20 points is quite a bit.
I'm really frustrated because I feel like he lied to us all semester or just decided that too many people had high grades?

Is it in the syllabus?

He didn't hand out a syllabus. Just went over "Class info" during the first lecture. It's all on his google sites page

I am pretty sure he has to provide a sylabus

So your grade is higher than 1 std dev above the mean of the exam?

I would contact him about it.

I contacted him about it and he said he didn't use the curve he has been posting for exams bc he offered extra credit so the class over performed. Doesn't seem to care that he misled the us the entire class. Just doesn't seem right to me. He shouldn't have posted grade distributions if he wasn't going to use them because of extra credit opportunities he offered.
I'd really like to fight this but not sure how to go about it.

Syallbus is required to be posted. Texas House Bill 2504. When I taught a lab it was given to the Department and then uploaded to Howdy for all students.

http://eis.tamu.edu/HB2504.php

Go here or onto Howdy and the syllabus is linked for each course.

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I'm not certain on this, but a TA once told me that a syllabus is a contract between the teacher and student so he will be required to honor whatever it says in there. If it doesn't say in the syllabus, then you probably have no recourse. That sucks.

Right now on elearning it says my final average is 89.2

It then says Final Letter Grade: A

Professor sends out email saying 90 and above is an A.

Now we wait to see if my letter grade is truly that on Monday.

The first paragraph of student rule 7 says "instructors are expected to provide notice of the dates on which major exams will be given and assignments will be due on the course syllabus, which must be made available by the first class period."

Many are moving away from handing out paper copies and putting them up on howdy or elearning. That is legitimate. See also student rule 10.1.

If you have a challenge to the grading, then see student rule 48. Note that you must show the grade was arbitrary, capricious, or prejudicial. The burden of proof is on you. But these are the procedures and you will find the chain of appeals in that rule as well.

I hope that helps.

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Ohhh shiii one of our profs just had a TBD as the date for everything and then would tell us a week out.

Brb calling cops

I got a prof to round up my final grade from a C to a B once. Talk about desperate.