Here's the issue I see, student's are expecting to get a certain mark. Overall, high school marks are being inflated. Ministry of education standards are a level 3 (i.e. some sort of 70%). This means that most students shouldn't be getting 80s.

Also, your top 6 average is made up of just that - 6 courses. Unless the other 5 courses are 100, then you can improve those courses to bring your average up. It's never just one mark or one teacher.

English isn't easy for most student for a reason. It forces you develop and use critical thinking skills and then effectively communicate your thoughts. That's not easy, and it isn't meant to be. However, these are important skills for every discipline. That's why it's a required course for every university.

The point isn't the exact number of their grades, the point is that you can't possibly argue that it's just one grade since all grades are weighted equally in the top 6. Firstly, I highly doubt at a program would automatically reject someone with an 89.7% without at least looking at their application.. 90% may be the recommended average but it's not an absolute. Additionally, like someone mentioned above, if your friends truly have averages of 89.7% then perhaps they should find a way to recoup that 0.3% difference by raising one of their 92s to a 93.. that would be the adult way to problem-solve and figure out the situation rather than blaming it entirely on one grade.

Honestly, everyone in this thread was just trying to offer you some honest perspective but now you are getting even more defensive and acting as though people in this thread are not being compassionate or fair.. you seem to be one of those people that perceive unfairness against you everywhere you go. It's up to you whether you want to listen or not, but we are trying to tell you that such an attitude will not serve you well in adult life. No one is denying the fact that some teachers mark unfairly or far too hard which results in disparities between schools and classes, so I don't know why you keep trying to prove your point about how hard your teacher is. We believe you that your teacher is hard. What we are trying to tell you is that the adult way to go about solving such a situation is to keep a positive attitude and be proactive about trying to find your own ways to solve the situation rather than bitching about unfair teachers.

If I were in this position, and indeed I have been several times at university, I actually would just do my best to move on and brush it off and if I was moping I wouldn't be offended if my friends reminded me that life's not fair. There will be times at work when someone else gets a raise and you don't, times when the professor picks another student to be their research assistant, times when you won't get that shcolarship because your grades are just a percentage too low (because you got an 82 rather than an 84 in one class) and times when the grading won't be fair. You can't fight every battle. I know this will sound trite, but there are Canadians in our own country who are hungry, and don't even access to clean water, basic health care or warm shelters. There are people in other countries who are still stoned for being gay. Personally, these are the unfair things that I would rather save my energy up to fight over, not tough grading in one high school class. I know when you're in high school it's hard to have perspective and everything feels like life and death, but take it from people who are older - all of this high school drama over grades and tough teachers will seem so, so incredibly insignificant and silly just a few years from now.

There's no need to be so hyperbolic.. I never asked you to kiss the floor that I walk on. Good luck with everything. I'm out of this thread, because honestly, yes, I do find you immature with a very nasty attitude and a huge chip on your shoulder. You pretty much come across as a major pain in the ass in every thread you've started.