How do you usually do on report cards?

[Oni-Paranoia]

Re: How do you usually do on report cards?

Valedictorians and students with all As are doomed to a lie of mediocrity. Study shows that 98% of them end up living middle class and mid management jobs. High school is really a measure of how well you can follow instructions given to you.

~Tsugomaru

so does that leave me between complete failure and complete success? lol?

[tsugomaru]

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I can't determine any of your futures on solely your grades alone.

~Tsugomaru

[DoctorSerpentine]

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Tsugomaru predict my future

[MrRubix]

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It depends on how you apply the skills, tsugo.

[infinity.]

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i almost got a b in adv eng I, the teacher was hard, but cool.

i don't allow myself to get lower than all a's
but i dont allow myself to be a complete loser either

[tsugomaru]

Re: How do you usually do on report cards?

Tsugomaru predict my future

Your symbol is Ophiuchus. You will end up paying taxes and dying.

It depends on how you apply the skills, tsugo.

Getting As at school doesn't necessarily mean you are applying your skills. I have been through plenty of classes where if you memorized your notes and your textbooks, you can pass the tests because questions come straight out from it. You don't actually need to understand how mathematical formulas work as long as you know how to plug in numbers and get an answer. Even out of school, you aren't going to be successful just because you know how to apply the chemistry you learn at school.

~Tsugomaru

[~kitty~]

Re: How do you usually do on report cards?

Valedictorians and students with all As are doomed to a lie of mediocrity. Study shows that 98% of them end up living middle class and mid management jobs. High school is really a measure of how well you can follow instructions given to you.

~Tsugomaru

Not only this, but there are teachers who hate smart people, and cause problems to you grade. They don't just go back and change it, but they send you out of class during important lessons, labs, tests, quizzes, notes that aren't in the book, etc.

These people can't make all A's. Also, many very potential students don't even try, then make lower grades, or already have a set plan of their future (something like what Bill Gates did when he dropped out of MIT). I think jobs do not revolve around how teachers present information to you, but rather how you elicit the information yourself and how you use it to function properly to your work place (whatever your job is, it will vary). Although, I don't know much about the labor force, I'm pretty sure that doing things the way school (High school) teaches you how to do things, you probably will end up with a mediocre job.

I don't know how much of that was nonsense, but I think I got my point across.

[Dark.Oni]

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I always had poor grades and passed by the skin of my teeth.

[dore]

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High school is all about working the system, which is a very applicable skill for life

[All_That_Chaz]

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In all of high school I got all A's and one B after weighting.

93+ A
85-92 B
77-84 C
70-76 D
69- F

AP courses were weighted 10 points, and honors classes were weighted 8. I haven't checked but I guess there were probably a few times I had a B before weighting but only once did I get a B after weighting. I ended high school with a weighted GPA of exactly 100.0% which put me about 25th out of 717.

My one B was a quarter of honors chem in 10th grade when my teacher gave me a test after I was out on an orchestra trip for 2 weeks and missed all the material on the test. I still don't think it was fair =/

EDIT: Oh yea college. I finished undergrad at Northwestern with a GPA of 3.2 in both my major and overall. Considering just about every class I took was belled to a 3.0, I'm pretty happy with that. Pretty much every grade I got was a B or a B+. I got a few A-'s and a few C+'s, and a few grades higher or lower but nothing worse than the C- required to get credit for the course.

4.0 A
3.7 A-
3.3 B+
3.0 B
2.7 B-
2.3 C+
2.0 C
1.7 C-
Anything below that didn't get you credit.

Oh and Rubix I got a very humble 1360/1600.

[Reach]

Re: How do you usually do on report cards?

Fail
Intelegence wise I'm top 10% without trying but I got D's & F's.
i didn't do homework, but I did get all A's & B's on my exams (excluding english)

Well, you could work on your spelling for starters.

Intelligence wise I scored in the top 0.01% at age 14, but it means nothing in terms of GPA. A moderate (r=0.4-0.5) correlation exists between GPA and intellectual capacity, but mostly because learning the material requires some degree of intelligence. Beyond that, it comes down to work ethic and other factors, such as personality. Workaholics and perfectionistic people do better in High School and University, though there is some evidence they do worse on the field and in environments that are less structured.

As for my report card, typically As and Bs. I'm at the top of 3 of my classes right now, but around average in two others, which really hurts my GPA =/

As for High School, I had only As, but High School was a joke compared to University.

Valedictorians and students with all As are doomed to a lie of mediocrity. Study shows that 98% of them end up living middle class and mid management jobs. High school is really a measure of how well you can follow instructions given to you.

Citation for that? That statistic appears greatly over exaggerated, given that essentially only people with all As are getting into fields like medicine, dentistry and law at high quality institutions, as well as many other grad schools. I'm sure there are plenty of all star students that go on to become an average citizen, but there has to be at least an equal number of not-so-all star students that do the same. Most people are destined for mediocrity regardless, given the nature of the bell curve dictates by definition that most people are average.

[Trogdor!!!!]

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i'm faling 2 gradese rest are A's And B's

I F'ing hate those two classes

[boondocks77]

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I got my midterm report yesterday.

I had English, Geography, Gym, and Business.

Business: 88% (I could've pulled like, a 95, if I hadn't bombed a virus test.)

English: 69% (One of the highest marks. Everyone else was getting 50's.)

Geography: 81% (Really good for me.)

Gym: 79% (Okay for me, could have done better).

How do you usually do on report cards?

Haha I got mine yesterday as well. I have a 78.6% average. Usually I wouldn't really care but this time part of that comes from a 34% in physics. I was proud.

[Quigly]

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Let's see...
Honors english:95
Honors geometry:84
CP history:95
Spanish 2:88
Honors Physics:90

Not too bad for the first marking period.

[EnR]

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wow lol 14 year olds ftl
A 79% is a C+ unless you have a 79.5% and your teacher is nice enough to round it up to an 80% then it could be a B-. Nice try though. Maybe it is different in Canada, but I don't know why it would be.

In Canada, 50-59= D, 60-69= C, 70-79= B, 80-99= A-A++