Do I detect the sounds of yet another dissatisfied IE customer?

*bites back an extremely sarcastic comment*

Don't tell me, I can guess what it was. You don't use IE, right?

no I use IE
Anyway what i was trying to say earlier, I got 70% for this story, I'm not happy with it, we gave in a newspaper article on the same day, mine was much worse than the psychiatryst one, but I got 80%, dont really understand it, but ow well

Grading in non-science courses is very susceptible, if not always, to the teacher's own subjectivity. Something about your story rubbed the teacher the wrong way, most likely....

nah...shes supposed to use a marking grid, personal feelings aren't suppose to play abig role.

I wish i could get 70% in my english assignments.

read

If only it were that simple...

it is, my marks went from sth like 40% up to where it is now, maily becus of reading

Subjectivity..... what the teacher believes to be, objectively good work as opposed to bad. It is unavoidable. That's oneof the reasons why taking good notes in class is so helpful toward making a good grade.

come again???

This is very broad generalization. Also, it was meant to be a comment for discussion, not to be the exact reason why you got a 70.

In non-science courses where answers are not black and white as far as being correct or incorrect is concerned, whether you get excellent grades or average grades is far more dependent upon whether you've approached the subject lessons the same was as the teacher knows it.

If you want to adopt positions that contradict what the teacher understands the situation to be, you will be graded more sternly as you will be put to the test of convincing the teacher that his/her way is incorrect. Harder to do, if not impossible to do (depending upon the stubbornness of the teacher).

By "rubbing" the teacher the wrong way, I meant to say that what you wrote disagrees with the teacher at some level so your grade reflects that disagreement.

seems I'm down to doin this link