Study.com Graders

[saraholson]

On my English assignments for just the basic Comp 1 and 2, I got some seriously nitpicky, over-the-top graders. However for my business courses I felt they were fine. My guess is that the people they hire to grade the gen ed classes are maybe fresh out of college themselves and feel like they have to 'prove' they are good graders by being excessively picky.

Yeah, I’m getting that same vibe.  It’s great and all for practicing my writing skills for the Capstone, but at the same time, it’s frustrating when I work so hard on an essay, only to receive a 78%.  I just get upset over the notes to justify their grade since they usually claim I “need improving” on a specific topic when I devoted multiple paragraphs and more to thoroughly explaining something.  Thankfully, our grades don’t show on the transcript, so it’s whatever.  I just hope my Capstone Instructor isn’t like this.

Well the Capstone instructor will be a 'real' professor employed by TESU, whereas the Study graders are people who may or may not even be professors. So I think probably it will be a different experience.