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[skeptical]

The other day a student, who had received an F on his paper, came to me complaining that the TA who had graded his paper was biased and that he deserved at least a D. I offered to regrade the paper. I found the paper truly was worthy of the F. However, I also found that much of the paper was plagiarized. So now the student is stuck with the F plus he has been reported for cheating. Vindication!

[geonerd]

Nicely done, Skeptical!

[kiana]

"Sure, I'll regrade you.  But I may find additional errors I missed the first time around, so your grade is just as likely to go down as it is to go up."

And they never ask again.

Of course, if said student currently has an F ...

[proftowanda]

The sprite is indeed probably lying, but you'd best make sure that she has no valid medical excuse that would require you to regrade her under school rules, if any such policies exist.

The policy now extant at my campus, where I am so glad to have worked hard to get it passed, is that students have 30 days to appeal final grades.  Period.  That has put an end to the ones who contact us again, a year after graduation, to say that they just realized that they can't get that job or get into that grad school or etcetera, and couldn't we just raise the grade a little?  By then, I rarely remember them, as those tend to be the students who weren't around that much before they graduated.  And that, of course, could explain a lot.