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human
Dealing with student haggling for grades

I'll admit, I'm relatively new to the profession (yay, pun, moving on), but I am increasingly (in a relatively short term) seeing emails from students after grades are posted hoping to bargain for an increased grade. They use lots of strategies, but the overall bent is always "won't you reconsider my grade due to these special circumstances?" My consistent response is that they have been subjected to the same grading criteria as all other students in the class, and I haven't had any blowback from that (although it is something that raises my general concern level, mainly the possibility of a substantial amount of unnecessary work on my part if a grade is disputed).

Those who've been in the game longer, do you notice a similar trend in increased requests to increase final grades? Any suggestions on preempting this wave of nagging?
gpt
>Any suggestions on preempting this wave of nagging?

I'd say that your best argument is just to remind them that the end of the semester is not the time to worry about their grades. They had the same opportunities as any student to come to your office for help, to attend / participate in any extra credit you offered, to attend study sessions (if you or your TAs did those), and could earn the same number of exam / homework points.