straight As

I'm that type of straight A student that passes out with any B I get. Never got anything below that because I'm just too smart for that. Bad grades fall in anything below a B, and I punish myself just by getting one. I am overly obsessed with getting good grades and being in advance classes, and I don't want anything less. This year for me there's simply no room to be lax. I'm only a high school freshman and I already have to take Geometry, Algebra II, AP Spanish, AP Biology, and so much more...

NEVER SLACK OFF!
 
My grades were always something I took great pride in. It took a lot of endurance to maintain my D+ average. Sure, I slipped at times, but who doesn't? But in the end I was still able to achieve the standard that I set for myself.
 
I usually don't get straight As, but my grades are generally a mix of As and Bs. Never really had to study either (when the hell was the last time I studied?), but I don't believe that means that I'm smart.
 
In public school, my grades were bad because I was unmotivated.
In college however, I actually tried and made good grades.
 
When I don't try, I get 80% or so.

When I do, I average 95% or so, depending on the subjects.

My Grade 12 Academic Average was 95,2%. A lot of people in second year at OttawaU have tried to tell me that 95,2% won't be feasible in university; however, I wrote a 2,500-word essay on aquaculture for a Third Year Environmental Studies class at WLU in Waterloo, ON and I got 93%. Wasn't even in the class, so.

I feel pretty comfortable. A lot of people hated me for the inate talent, but it's really not my problem lol it sucks others have to work a lot harder just to get an 80%. I also look proud / arrogant for thinking 80% isn't that great (definitely not used to it anymore), but I do recognize the provincial average is about 73%, so I commend 80%ers on their efforts. My standards are much higher than that, though.
 
I've aimed for 95%, and I've achieved 95% (95,2% in Grade 12).

90% is where I'm content, or higher. 85% is room for improvement, but still not going to affect my scholarships. Still disappointing, though.

80% is cringe-worthy. I don't like being told I missed the objective on 20% of course material.

Anything less than 90% is really inadequate for me. I've never failed a class. In my worst mental state, I scrounged a 50% in Grade 10 Math, but I've since mostly pulled out of that state (with lingering social anxiety).

My expectations for others is 80% is really good. I just have a very high standard for myself. As far as I'm concerned, grades and smarts is all I have, so I better use it and show it.

Luckily, the SASS program at my school allows me to skip out on group work due to the anxiety. I get panic attacks and hyperventilation just thinking about other people only pulling enough weight to either pass the class or achieve 80% or so. It's a great mark for them, but not for me.
 
I'm generally unhappy if I get anything less than an A. The joys of GPA protection, I suppose. My school is hard, so getting the sort of grades I want requires excellent performance all the time, and I don't always succeed, but I've done pretty well overall. I was ok with a couple of B's earlier on in my college career, but I became much more concerned about them later on. C's and below are unacceptable for me, but fortunately, I've managed to avoid them.

GPA importance really seems to be career-dependent. A lot of people I knew didn't really have to worry about their grades because potential employers valued the school's name enough not to care about performance. Unfortunately, for those of us who wanted to pursue further education, grades continued to matter for admissions to programs of interest (especially for particularly GPA-obsessed ones like med schools).
 
I don't have that kind of letter grading system though. All we had in high school was numbers up to 100. owo"

Back in high school, getting a score lower than 85 in any science subjects is like a death sentence to me. Especially in math, where the bare minimum for me was 90... too bad all. the. ♥♥♥♥ing. math. teachers. gives. ♥♥♥♥♥♥. grades. that even getting 90 is a miracle... it ruins my beautiful math record though.

Another subject might be English where 90 was the bare minimum. Explanation? Because English here is equivalent to an elementary school that I have already learned back in elementary (I went to an English school). Too bad the English teacher I got was gives ♥♥♥♥♥♥ grades as well despite her English being so bad that I have to correct a bunch of mistakes she has made over the course of high school. :|

But when it comes to civics, history, economy and such... I'd be happy with 60 tbh, 'cause no matter how hard I studied... that's it. It's sad, really, since the minimum is actually 75, and I can never achieve that. Also, Indonesian, 'cause I'm too used with writing in English. :'>

I think that college we'll be using the letter system. I'm aiming for straight As later.
 
I had very low standards all throughout high school - with the exception of certain classes I liked, as long as I didn't get an I or F and had to repeat classes like some of my friends did, I was happy.

Final year I tried harder to be a good student, of course, to get into university. I don't remember my exact grades/percentages for each class, but my average was 91%, which was enough.

I've been maintaining a 3.4 GPA since I started university, which I'm pretty okay with.
 
Screw grades. I've had one career on my mind, and honestly outside of mathematics and economics nothing was deemed useful by me. Stupid, sure, and I regret it(I went from having an average of 90-100 in middle school to about mid 60s by high school)but I did what I did and I can't change it.
 
My final GPA in high school was about a 3.8. Yeah, I could've done better I believe but it was good enough to get me a lot of scholarships for an expensive University so I'm fine with it. I rarely did homework and never studied so I'm happy with the outcome. The only classes that ever gave me trouble were Spanish and Calculus. I want to maintain a 4.0 in college so I'll probably study my ass off.
 
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