How do you usually do on report cards?

[Oni-Paranoia]

Originally Posted by tsugomaru

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]

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

~Tsugomaru

[DoctorSerpentine]

Tsugomaru predict my future

[MrRubix]

It depends on how you apply the skills, tsugo.

[infinity.]

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]

Originally Posted by DoctorSerpentine

Tsugomaru predict my future

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

Originally Posted by MrRubix

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~]

Originally Posted by tsugomaru

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]

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

[dore]

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

[All_That_Chaz]

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]

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!!!!]

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

I F'ing hate those two classes

[boondocks77]

Originally Posted by Netjet!

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]

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]

Originally Posted by 1mpuls3

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++

[GG_Guru]

Course / Teacher / Mark

01PreIBEnglish 11 | Alemian | A
04Active Physics | Collins | A
05Algebra 1 | DiPirro | B+
06Weight Training | Everett | A
07 Gourmet Foods | Sullivan H | A

[MrRubix]

Originally Posted by tsugomaru

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

What I mean is that you can either get A's in school by memorizing ****, or you can actually try to understand things. You need to be self-sufficient -- the earlier you can start learning material and understanding how to use and apply it without having your hand held, the better. A lot of people who get all A's are workaholic grind-machines, no doubt, but that isn't what I am getting at. Like Reach said, you have a huge chunk of people, by definition, in the middle, and I assure you that this chunk is not homogeneous in nature in terms of how those people performed in high school. Your statistic is horribly overstated, in my opinion.

One of the most valuable things that you can learn is how to problem-solve. It's a skill that is more than mere memorization, and is one of the most powerful tools you can try to develop before leaving high school. It's about thinking critically and being able to adapt to situations that may lack structure using a variety of relevant tools. In the real world, things aren't structured like they are in high school. Oftentimes, it's the case of "So, what's the best way for us to achieve this goal or solve this problem?"

During interviews for hard job positions in the financial/science/computer/etc sectors, oftentimes the interviewers are trying to see if you can solve problems. They want to know how you think, but they also want to know that you did well in school. In the real world, being able to problem-solve is critical, but it is also important that you're able to handle rigor. If you can't even handle the rigor of school, then it becomes questionable as to how you would handle the difficulties of an environment that may be even more mentally intensive and without structure.

Unless your problem-solving abilities are just absolutely over-the-top through the roof, I'd rather hire someone who could problem-solve and had great grades in school over someone who was just able to problem-solve but didn't do that well in school at all. Usually, those with the better grades tend to be better problem-solvers than those with the crappier grades, anyway (speaking empirically here).

[nuclearsamurai]

Physical Science: 44%/F (The idiot teacher forgot to put a bunch of grades in for everyone, so almost everyone got Fs. A few lucky people got Ds.)

Algebra II Honors: 2.33/C (I missed a couple of tests.)

American History: 1.46/D (I missed a test here as well, since I missed a day of school at the worst time.)

English III: 1.71/C (I'll admit, I don't do much homework there.)

Creative Photography III: 3.32/B (Wait, what?)

Italian I: 3.30/B

[Wineandbread]

Yay for 4.0 in 1st quarter
I certainly wasn't expecting it, cause I had borderline As in AP Chem and World History. =/