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Altairis

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    Do you get good grades? Do you have to study a ton to get those grades, or are you just really good at school? If you don't get good grades, do you try really hard to get them and you just don't, or do you lack the motivation needed to pursue the A? Anything else?
     
    I used to get a lot of straight As in most subjects. It wasn't a constant string, but the majority of my marks were in the B - A realm. Most of the time, minimal amount of studying was required. Nowadays though, I honestly couldn't care less about school. Everyone keeps telling me I have the potential to do great, but I just lack the motivation. The only thing I would ever think of trying hard in at this point is English, because it's the only thing I even remotely enjoy. The rest of my classes, my policy is 'A pass and a credit's all I'm here for'.

    I do have psychology next year though, so maybe that'll be worth putting some effort into. ^.^

    Though... despite this, I still end up with the occasional A. Hell, just the other day I got an A+. I didn't even try. It's weird how I can surprise myself sometimes.
     
    I'm really really really good at getting B+'s (and occasionally A-'s/As) without trying at all. Which is both a good thing and a sad thing, honestly.
     
    When I was in school, I did very well. Heck, without much effort at all, I could muster up an A-. The only classes I struggled with were the classes that I hated the teacher. I would still try, but I wouldn't have any motivation to do anything. Of course, this was high school, and that's pretty easy to skate by.

    For my two quarters of college, I was still doing pretty well. I had to study extensively for the first time, but I still managed to get a cumulative GPA of 3.46. Of course, it helps when the college stinks and puts you in a math class you already passed. I did about half of the homework and still aced it with a 3.8.
     
    By any chance, how high is an A?

    Anyhow, my grades during Elementary/Junior High/Senior High Schools are rated on a scale from 0-100. And normally, I scored about 87/100 in almost everything with Science subjects (Biology, Physics, Chemistry) at least 90/100 during my Senior High School times. Thanks to that, I managed to enter a good university without needing to take any entrance exams.

    Although I will not go talk about my History grades... You don't need to know how bad I am in history.
     
    Illusione-Tempus said:
    By any chance, how high is an A?

    Anyhow, my grades during Elementary/Junior High/Senior High Schools are rated on a scale from 0-100. And normally, I scored about 87/100 in almost everything with Science subjects (Biology, Physics, Chemistry) at least 90/100 during my Senior High School times. Thanks to that, I managed to enter a good university without needing to take any entrance exams.

    Although I will not go talk about my History grades... You don't need to know how bad I am in history.
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    It depends on the school - in my experience there are two grading scales, 7-point and 10-point. 7-point had 93-100 A, 85-92 B, etc etc, and 10-point was 90-100 A, 80-90 B.
     
    I'm under the impression that school grades are a better (but still poor) indicator of neurotype than actual intelligence or ability. I fared very poorly in academia, but am none the less above average in terms of intelligence. Not always easy to believe that I am, but I'll abide by the consensus I get for what it's worth. I do things with my hands which funnily enough aren't taught in school; like, I've had a relatively good grasp of things like driving and welding from the outset.
     
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    I actually had all A's throughout elementary, junior high, and high school. Because of AP classes being weighted more than regular classes, I believe my GPA was about a 4.5 upon graduation. I didn't really have to try too hard to keep up my grades. I liked pretty much every one of my teachers, so that certainly helped, plus I like school in general. In general, I didn't really have to study very much. I did study but it wasn't like I obsessively studied like some people do.
     
    Once you get to university (at least in my experience) you have to work really hard for your grades. Then again I unfortunately take weeklong breaks from studying so it's not like anything I say means anything.

    I think I have a good grasp of how intelligence manifests itself from observing the people around me. A friend of mine in high school noticed that although her grades are just as good as everybody else's (in our friend groups) it took longer for her to "get" things. And some things (like science-related concepts) she found difficult to "get" at all. Every now and then in university I come across someone who seems to "get" things instantaneously. Like you could talk about a subject they only know about tangentially for a short period of time and they can keep up the conversation by picking out the most key ideas and communicating it succinctly. Anyways, grades are an indicator of intelligence to the extent that they're not an indicator of effort.

    But going back to motivation - "motivation" - I don't believe that motivation is the issue. While it might take a lot of motivation to build up good study habits, once you've developed them it doesn't take nearly as much to maintain them - it's easier to maintain something than to change it. It's like any other habit, for example eating healthy or working out or cleaning your room etc etc.
     
    Do you get good grades? Yeah, usually. I've always been pretty bad at math and science classes though. It's a shame those are seen as "more important" than artistic classes, because that's where I'm talented.
    Do you have to study a ton to get those grades, or are you just really good at school? Hahaha I never study. I can look at stuff once and remember it, so that's usually how I would get by.
    If you don't get good grades, do you try really hard to get them and you just don't, or do you lack the motivation needed to pursue the A? For math and science I had to be bribed with money to get A's and B's. But it worked! I just never cared about the classes before but once you give me a worthy goal to look forward to I'll put forth the effort ^-^
     
    I've gone from being a straight A student from elementary through to high school years, but then university came along. Constantly having mid-70s, and low-80 grades for assignments, tests, etc. made me become accepting of those grades when back a few years ago I would probably cry over getting those numbers. There have been multiple times where I've actually skipped out on certain assignments, and even mid-terms (will never forget that time I skipped my accounting final), so I can't exactly blame anyone else other than myself; I know that. That was when I was still studying psychology though. The lack of motivation, and interest in pursuing that degree led to little studying.

    Now that I'm in a college program for programming, my grades have improved significantly in each course. Despite numerous 100%s given to me, my GPA still remains in the low to mid 3.0 range, which is kind of depressing considering the amount of work, and effort I put into things, especially assignments. Last term was great for my grades considering that the majority of the material I already knew myself from being in the web development field for 5-6 years so that was an easy 97% average without studying, but only for my web design course :c Regardless, personally, I think I know myself enough to say that I have the potential to be more intelligent than I am, but I'm just lazy, and procrastinate way too much.
     
    I hardly studied as much as I should've. Throughout high school studying was nonexistent for me but I still managed mostly B's and A's with the occasional C in classes like math because I was terrible at it, haha. Graduated with a 3.5 GPA.

    College was only slightly different - I'd spend a few hours some days before studying but not much. Luckily my school was not at all known for being difficult. ;P Graduated with about a 3.0 GPA; sadly my one F and two D's brought me down a lot but that largely due to awful professors who read the text book out loud for hours with a monotone voice. Hard to learn much (of course I'm partially to blame there as well, though).
     
    I get B/As (5/6 in our grading system) without studying at all, so yeah. ♥♥♥♥ Maths, and Chemistry.
     
    I have a cumulative GPA of 3.7 which I'm still not satisfied with because it can be higher if I had tried harder. (Hint: I'm Asian)

    Never gotten a C since senior year in high school (had a bad case of senioritis), in which I still got away with a 3.0 GPA somehow for doing absolutely nothing.
     
    my grades are alright. mostly B's. at this part of the year I couldn't really care less and I do all my homework in school a period before it's due and whatnot, but I do fine. I like to think I'm a smart guy that just has no work ethic.
     
    I never had much difficulty getting good grades until I entered VCE (years 11 and 12). In Australia you get into university based on your ranking (out of all students across the state). I needed to get at least 90.8 to get into the course at the University I wanted, which meant performing better than approx 90% of my peers. You bet I studied in those years!

    At university I never had any issues. I never got a score below a distinction mark. That being said all I did was uni work. If it wasn't lectures there were pracs, prac reports or assignments to get done. Everyone was in the same boat though. Those who didn't spend nearly all their time on work failed.
     
    I generally range in the A/B/high C's range. Being a lazy bum with a lack of a social life gives you a lot of study time.
     
    I got straight A's and all honors (then again, I just finished my freshman year). I honestly don't try, it comes naturally to me because I always memorize what I learn. Kinda unfair to others, but oh well.
     
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