If you submit a paper that is riddled with common mistakes such as misspelled words, missing punctuation, or wrong use of tenses, you can
expect getting a low grade that can drag your class standing down.
While there will always be some students who struggle or who don't put in the work to
get a good
grade, a high number of students
getting lower than
expected results could highlight a problem with your content rather than the blame falling on the students.
Then there is North Carolina, which
expects that its districts will
get only 61.7 percent of black students in
grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while
expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far
lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders
expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.
In Wales, ministers ordered a regrade for pupils who
got a
lower grade than
expected with Welsh board WJEC, but Ofqual did not order such a move in England.