Hi,
I am an international student currently in my 2nd year of studies at Uoft St.George.I was put on probation after my first year.I repeated my bio120 course on fall of 2012 but failed for the second time and I am mad scared about getting into suspension. Yes, I have fixed an appointment with a councillor meanwhile I was hoping if a letter to the professors would work a miracle of giving me a passing grade.I took the course with professors Barrett and Thomson and was wondering how to approach them..to be more specific, would it be wise for me to mention that I am on academic probation and an F grade at this point could lead me towards suspension or just write a normal letter of request saying I am an international student and so on.
Please help me out. I feel so lost right now.
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Yo.
Unfortunately, at this point of the year it’ll take a very long and grueling process to have a mark changed on ROSI that’ll include you and your prof(s) and a number of those higher ups. You can try writing a letter but to ask a prof to bump a grade for you usually requires you to be at least at like… a 49. Likewise, again, they might decline on the grounds of the process of changing is just too troublesome.
What you can do is possibly request an exam recheck — that is, if you truly think you were graded unfairly. If that’s the case, your exam grade might go up just enough to give you a pass! Granted, that can also work negatively…
But you still have a whole semester of courses to make sure your sessional GPA rises, so work on that if the bio stuff doesn’t go through.
Cheers!
aska