is there a correlation between your grades at uni and your relationship with the lecturer?

What ‘thelowendhz’ is absolutely true, your relationship with the lecturer or professor is affected by your work in class, but I wanted to add that I don’t believe it only goes one way.

Some professors just play favorites. It’s a simple truth I have come across in life. The affect of your professor’s feeling towards you may not be profound, but I believe it’s there. If they do not agree with the stance you take in a paper or an essay on a test, they may downgrade it. While they are supposed to be objective, professors are human too. And many of them are snooty, elitist humans who think they are always right – if you disagree with them you get a worse grade, period.

This is not true of all professors, many are perfectly wonderful people who are enjoyable to be around and grade fairly. But professors are human and sometimes personal feelings do get mixed up in there work.

It was most probably the merit of your own performance rather than the relationship you had with those lecturers. They don’t tend to take any negativity from students personally, in fact most lecturers I’ve known (I grew up with a lot of teachers who were my friends parents etc)find challenging students allow them to be more grounded and find more creative ways to reach or engage with a student that may be struggling.

Believe it or not but lecturers do have lives and are more concerned with other things than being malicious towards someone who really doesn’t factor in their urgent priority lists.

Consider the nature of the good relationship. I have formed friendly relationships with professors who taught the classes I did well with. I believe these relationships formed because of my good work in the class; e.g. actively participating, writing well-written papers, going to office hours once or twice. So yes, I believe that having a good relationship with a professor means a better grade, but I believe the quality of the relationship with a teacher is directly related to your level of performance in the class.