Grade Rant.. ( very long )

[coolshannie]

Well i don't know my final grade yet, so i suppose im just majorly stressing as usual. Ok, Backround.. Im going for Validictorian, and have been doing great for the past year in a half of my high school career..
Well, lets get to my Math class.. The teacher is really nice, much better then any of the other math teachers at our school and I was doing fine until one day after school when I was staying late to get help on a math review, I asked her what my grade was. Shockingly it was a B. So I ask her, are you sure this is right? What brought my grade down ect.? She states I have a missing assignment, and I just look at her like.. well thats impossible, so we search through turned in papers and things and it is unfound, so I ask her if i were to find it in my papers at home If I could get any credit for it, she responded.. " I will see what I can do." Well that was a Friday, So I went home and looked through all my school stuff and finally found the paper, It was completed and everything, I couldn't figure out why i wouldn't have turned it in.. I figured that maybe I thought it was in the Pile when I handed it to the teacher and just didn't realize it was with my notes or some other papers that it had become trapped under. Now when I went to school on monday I did not explain this as she never asked and she had said she would see what she could do, so I gave her the paper stating it was my missing assignment. She said alright and took it. Well since then we had a test, I studied my butt off for 3 days, staying after school for 2 hours to go through EVERY problem, then going through every problem again with my dad the next day, then doing it over and over again myself. Well on the test.. I only got an 86... ( just my luck.. ) But before and and after that test we had turned in home work bringing my grade to about an 87 before the test, and an 88 after the test and two home work assignments.. Well.. that is NOT an A.. And the lowest you can get for an A is an 89.5, We may be turning in 1 more home work assignment, and im just not sure if that will boost me up to an A.. Truthfully if it wasn't for that missing assignment that had brought me down ALOT I think I would have an A right now. Today after she graded my test and I asked her what my grade was at now, and she said an 88... and i was asking her if another home work assignment would bring it to an A ect. some students asked me why do you want an A so badly? I would kill for a B.. I began to explain that I was going for Valedictiorian, and my teacher asks.. " So you have a 4.0 so far?" I reply.. " Yes I do." She replies.. " Good Job." I cant help but think that she MUST know how important this is to me, and that i am a really good student, and that I have never had a missing assignment EVER in any class. I mean I dont know if i should go talk to her and explain that I never have any missing assignments, and I think that i should get some credit for that paper, as I had it and it was completed, and I have never had any missing assignments or any grade or behavior problems in the past ect. I just feel so stressed that everything Ive been working for is going to go down the toilet just like that.. I mean i still have a chance if i got I think a middlish B on my semester exam I could still get an A for the semester, and then i would still have all A's for the semester which is what really counts, but tests are NOT my strong point, and I am going to study like crazy either way but, Im just so scared and stressed that my grade is not going to turn out to be an A for either the quarter of the semester, and that everything I've dreamed of, everything I've set my heart and goals toward is just going to disappear within a blink of an eye..

 

[SplshMtnLvr28]

Could you ask for some form of extra credit? Congrats on your GPA, by the way.

I have a mini-rant also.
So, yesterday in French we had a Chapter Test. We have finals next week. So, it's not like I don't have enough to study for, I have to worry about a stupid French test. I've studied since Monday, so I definately know the stuff. I even took the online test from our textbook, that's how cool I am. Ok, fast forward to Friday. She gives us the test, it's like 6 pages long. Not bad. The first page is a listening activity. No one got it. We all ask if we could listen one more time, nope. Mmkay... I guess as well as I could on that. The rest of the test is writing, matching, filling in the blank, etc... Umm, wow. There are about 5 people in my French class with an A, me being one of them. At the end of the test, *everyone* was like.... ***. I mean, WHY would she give us an insanely hard, impossible test right before finals?

Ughhhh sorry, it just pissed me off.

 

[StitchfansJr]

Yeah, ask for extra credit.

What I don't get is: Okay you study really really hard on a test for something. Your friend doesn't study at all. Test day comes. You take the test, and so does your friend. You get your test back the next day. You got a B. Your friend gets an A. You studied, but you got a B. Your friend didn't study, but they got an A.

That makes no sense!

 

[Sparx]

Yeah, ask for extra credit.

What I don't get is: Okay you study really really hard on a test for something. Your friend doesn't study at all. Test day comes. You take the test, and so does your friend. You get your test back the next day. You got a B. Your friend gets an A. You studied, but you got a B. Your friend didn't study, but they got an A.

That makes no sense!

some people don't need to study.

example-me.

studying makes me freak out and blank out. If I don't study, I'll do fine. I can retain enough information from just listening to the lecture that I can take the test and make a good grade. I'm an audible learner. Taking notes does not help me. Reading does not help me. Hearing someone say it once, I'll remember it.

thats how that works.

 

[JediDan2773]

some people don't need to study.

example-me.

studying makes me freak out and blank out. If I don't study, I'll do fine. I can retain enough information from just listening to the lecture that I can take the test and make a good grade. I'm an audible learner. Taking notes does not help me. Reading does not help me. Hearing someone say it once, I'll remember it.

thats how that works.

I'm pretty much the same way.

 

[Mickey1122]

Well i don't know my final grade yet, so i suppose im just majorly stressing as usual. Ok, Backround.. Im going for Validictorian, and have been doing great for the past year in a half of my high school career..
Well, lets get to my Math class.. The teacher is really nice, much better then any of the other math teachers at our school and I was doing fine until one day after school when I was staying late to get help on a math review, I asked her what my grade was. Shockingly it was a B. So I ask her, are you sure this is right? What brought my grade down ect.? She states I have a missing assignment, and I just look at her like.. well thats impossible, so we search through turned in papers and things and it is unfound, so I ask her if i were to find it in my papers at home If I could get any credit for it, she responded.. " I will see what I can do." Well that was a Friday, So I went home and looked through all my school stuff and finally found the paper, It was completed and everything, I couldn't figure out why i wouldn't have turned it in.. I figured that maybe I thought it was in the Pile when I handed it to the teacher and just didn't realize it was with my notes or some other papers that it had become trapped under. Now when I went to school on monday I did not explain this as she never asked and she had said she would see what she could do, so I gave her the paper stating it was my missing assignment. She said alright and took it. Well since then we had a test, I studied my butt off for 3 days, staying after school for 2 hours to go through EVERY problem, then going through every problem again with my dad the next day, then doing it over and over again myself. Well on the test.. I only got an 86... ( just my luck.. ) But before and and after that test we had turned in home work bringing my grade to about an 87 before the test, and an 88 after the test and two home work assignments.. Well.. that is NOT an A.. And the lowest you can get for an A is an 89.5, We may be turning in 1 more home work assignment, and im just not sure if that will boost me up to an A.. Truthfully if it wasn't for that missing assignment that had brought me down ALOT I think I would have an A right now. Today after she graded my test and I asked her what my grade was at now, and she said an 88... and i was asking her if another home work assignment would bring it to an A ect. some students asked me why do you want an A so badly? I would kill for a B.. I began to explain that I was going for Valedictiorian, and my teacher asks.. " So you have a 4.0 so far?" I reply.. " Yes I do." She replies.. " Good Job." I cant help but think that she MUST know how important this is to me, and that i am a really good student, and that I have never had a missing assignment EVER in any class. I mean I dont know if i should go talk to her and explain that I never have any missing assignments, and I think that i should get some credit for that paper, as I had it and it was completed, and I have never had any missing assignments or any grade or behavior problems in the past ect. I just feel so stressed that everything Ive been working for is going to go down the toilet just like that.. I mean i still have a chance if i got I think a middlish B on my semester exam I could still get an A for the semester, and then i would still have all A's for the semester which is what really counts, but tests are NOT my strong point, and I am going to study like crazy either way but, Im just so scared and stressed that my grade is not going to turn out to be an A for either the quarter of the semester, and that everything I've dreamed of, everything I've set my heart and goals toward is just going to disappear within a blink of an eye..

I know exactly how you feel. I had a 4.0 until sophmore math came along...on the first day, he said that in every problem, he would be 'trying his hardest to trick you.' That is what every other teacher says they will NOT do!
I would ask for extra credit, if it is available. (It wasn't for me.)
Also, make sure that she added up your score correctly. Every point makes a difference, and you show the teacher that you care.
For example, my last math test came back as a 94, when it was really supposed to be much higher. I went up and pointed out his mistake, and the teacher fixed it. A couple of people called 'grade-grubber' but they shut up really quickly when the teacher told everyone it put a + on the end of my grade...

 

[coolshannie]

well i will be adding up all of my test scores again.. and possibly checking some of the problems to see if i should have gotten more points.. As for extra credit.. we already had extra credit this quarter, should i ask her about the missing assignment? Should i explain, I understand that this was given a zero because ' I chose not to turn it in.' But Ms. ****** I NEVER have missing assignments and i sincerely think that i thought it was in the stack of papers that i handed you, im not asking for full credit or even half credit, any point that i could get from the paper would really help me. I think I am a really good student and never intended on having any missing assignments.. and I didn't even know i had 1. I check to make sure my homework is done each night, and in this case i had checked and it was finished, so why would i not turn it in?

Yes but i think i will go check over my tests.. Im so stressed out im having an awful weekend..

 

[Babyjustrun]

some people don't need to study.

example-me.

studying makes me freak out and blank out. If I don't study, I'll do fine. I can retain enough information from just listening to the lecture that I can take the test and make a good grade. I'm an audible learner. Taking notes does not help me. Reading does not help me. Hearing someone say it once, I'll remember it.

thats how that works.

I can't bring myself to study.
The words are like pictures on a page that by the next day I'll have forgotten. I'm better off just taking test from a very small memory: the day I learned it.
I just don't study because I don't ever see the point, because when I do study, it doesn't stay and I could hardly care. I'm pro for getting good grades on stuff I don't understand. I've failed tests where I understand the thing so well, and I've gotten 105% on tests I was confused on.
Anyways, I find it hard to study in every class. Math is functional, english & french are stuff you should know (where I live), social studies is easy & science is a bunch of confusing words I don't understand.. in french.

 

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

This isn't a dig on you and I agree that it does stink royally but the teacher is not in any way obligated to find more points for you just because you have a 4.0 currently (which is very worthy of congrats, by the way). I agree that you should go through and look for things yourself but I would not expect her to do that kind of thing for you. She shouldn't have to change her policy on late work because of your scar-free past. Though she may, she should not have to nor be expected to.

 

[Mickey1122]

I can't bring myself to study.
The words are like pictures on a page that by the next day I'll have forgotten. I'm better off just taking test from a very small memory: the day I learned it.
I just don't study because I don't ever see the point, because when I do study, it doesn't stay and I could hardly care. I'm pro for getting good grades on stuff I don't understand. I've failed tests where I understand the thing so well, and I've gotten 105% on tests I was confused on.
Anyways, I find it hard to study in every class. Math is functional, english & french are stuff you should know (where I live), social studies is easy & science is a bunch of confusing words I don't understand.. in french.

I really never studied until halfway through high school. This year, junior year, I have A.P. classes. You honestly need a strong work ethic, and you have to spend time actually reading--and rereading--the material in order to find the purpose and bias. When you get to be an upperclassman, the expectations rise.

 

[pigletgirl]

I have to study to do well on a test, especially if it contains any type of vocab. I don't mind studying because its the only possible way to get any peace to myself (because the house is so loud at most times of the day). It's also time when I can get on here without any interuption

 

[Babyjustrun]

I really never studied until halfway through high school. This year, junior year, I have A.P. classes. You honestly need a strong work ethic, and you have to spend time actually reading--and rereading--the material in order to find the purpose and bias. When you get to be an upperclassman, the expectations rise.

I'm aware that my work ethic is not going to fly next year. While I get above average grades, I'm almost just as lazy as the failing students and where I won't be re-learning stuff next year I'm screwed.
I've been told a thousand times, I need to know the basics of stuff like circumference and remember it, because we won't be retaught it like we have forever, we'll just get more math equasions.
I don't remember stuff like that very easily, I can't tell you how to do half the stuff I learned last year. And every year since the second grade we've revised stuff so that we don't forget.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Well okay I have a rant too. First of all let me tell you that our Absence poilicy is very strict and if you miss one day the ones after that our unexcused and you get a zero on all the work you would have done that day including test. Well, I was out thursday because I have strep throat and I also missed a day in Oct. because my dearest uncle died. So thursday was unexcused but we had a Civics test that day. And I punched myself for it but I was feeling awful and I went to the doctor and everything. Anyway the Cvics teacher on Friday didn't know if it was unexcused or not so I took the test. We got it back on Monday and I had a 98. But she found out it was unexcused so it was a 0!!! That brought my grade down to a B. And now my GPA is 3.5 and I'm gonna get kicked out of Honor Society cause you have to have a 3.6! Eeeeer!! I even gave the Principal my dr.s note and still he said now way it's unexcused!!! Aaah I'm ripping my hair out right now...

Congrads on your 4.0...

 

[Dragonlord11_7]

some people don't need to study.

example-me.

studying makes me freak out and blank out. If I don't study, I'll do fine. I can retain enough information from just listening to the lecture that I can take the test and make a good grade. I'm an audible learner. Taking notes does not help me. Reading does not help me. Hearing someone say it once, I'll remember it.

thats how that works.

I'm kinda the same. I'm good at remembering stuff from lectures, but if the teacher lectures and I write the stuff down somewhere, I'll probably remember everything they say. I never study though. I just write it and don't ever look at it again.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Also I have always been the kinda person who never studied for the test but got a good grade on it. But when I do study I end up with a bad grade.

 

[coolshannie]

This isn't a dig on you and I agree that it does stink royally but the teacher is not in any way obligated to find more points for you just because you have a 4.0 currently (which is very worthy of congrats, by the way). I agree that you should go through and look for things yourself but I would not expect her to do that kind of thing for you. She shouldn't have to change her policy on late work because of your scar-free past. Though she may, she should not have to nor be expected to.

I wasn't trying to imply that she should give me points for the assignment, I had my chance and i blew it i suppose, im still going to talk to her and ask her about it as she did imply that purhaps i would get a few points... Every little bit helps i suppose. Both my parent's are teachers so i do know how it all works, I guess i was just extremely frustrated.. actually still am extremely frustrated that somehow my grade just didn't make it, I still have a chance if I get a high B on the semester exam I will still come out with an A for semester and still be on track for validictiorian, If not my parents know ive tried extremely hard and that I will still graduate with an honors deploma, who knows, maybe this is an eye opener to tell me to take all Ap or Ib classes, since i was going to only take a few Ap and the rest honors classes so that I wouldn't screw up my grade on the way to validictorian... I dont know, everything happens for a reason right?

 

[SplshMtnLvr28]

I have to study. I can't remember information by just hearing it or reading it once. Especially vocab; ughhh, vocab is evil. I buy giant boxes of index cards because I make flash cards for every vocab word I get in every class... it's the only way I'll learn it.

 

[seashoreCM]

What I don't get is: Okay you study really really hard on a test for something. Your friend doesn't study at all. Test day comes. You take the test, and so does your friend. You get your test back the next day. You got a B. Your friend gets an A. You studied, but you got a B. Your friend didn't study, but they got an A.!

God gave your friend a better brain than He gave you. Perhaps your friend has a photographic memory and you don't.

To put things in perspective, arm wrestle a coupla (sic) people. You won't win all of the time. God gave some of them better muscles than He gave you.

To the OP: Regarding the 86 on the test, perhaps you are just not that good in math. Read the preceding to find out that maybe there is someone else destined to become valedictorian rather than you. Or if you became valedictorian, would not the above immediately preceding apply to the runner up?

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[pigletgirl]

some people don't need to study.

example-me.

studying makes me freak out and blank out. If I don't study, I'll do fine. I can retain enough information from just listening to the lecture that I can take the test and make a good grade. I'm an audible learner. Taking notes does not help me. Reading does not help me. Hearing someone say it once, I'll remember it.

thats how that works.

I hate to say it but, I don't think that'll last very long, especially if your going to college.