How were your grades in school?

[Croconaw]

I’m wondering how your grades were in school? My grades were average for the most part. It wasn’t anything spectacular by any means. I was the middle of the road for most classes, with the exception of math. My grades were always near perfect for math. I might be rusty now, though. It’s been years. It reminded me when I found a drive with a bunch of my old math tests from school and it brought back memories of school for me.

My best subject was math by a landslide, and my worst subject was probably history. I also didn’t like gym class or lunch. If lunch were graded, I would’ve failed, lol. I went to the library everyday and drank water with a pouch of muffins.

Have you ever failed a class? I actually failed chemistry. Well, more like I was withdrawn because it just wasn’t working out. I didn’t end up taking a science class that year, though, so I had to take Anatomy my senior year to make up the credit. I was also withdrawn from a simple earth science class, which was supposedly required to graduate. Still, I made it up by passing Anatomy and Physics my senior year. Yeah, I’m confused too, lol. Now that I think about it, science might’ve been my worst subject.

I also almost failed gym class my senior year because I didn’t take swimming and I didn’t like gym. Like, I wish we played hockey or something interesting. But we didn’t.

 

[daringred_]

my grades were good all through school. in primary, i was seated at the 'top' table every year, and i scored the highest for english during the SATs and pretty well overall. in secondary, i was in the top set for all subjects and predicted A-A* for them all too. i never failed a class, but i did fail three subjects at GCSE because i'm not suited to exams. i scored D in history, business and something else. don't know what. i want to say ICT, but i'm pretty sure that was remarked to a C. i passed the rest of my subjects. i did the most exams in my year group -- 11 subjects, 28 or so exams. in sixth form, i scored the highest in health and social care -- triple D*, which is the highest mark you can get. everything was coursework/essays, which is a much better format for me since it isn't entirely reliant on memory like exams are.

you can't fail gym here unless you take it as a BTEC as well, which focuses more on sports theory and stuff. everyone takes regular gym once or twice a week up until right before final exams, presumably to make sure kids get their regular exercise. i actually really enjoyed it unless we were doing swimming, which they stop after the first year or two anyway.

 

[LadyDestani]

My grades were always very good in school. I was always on Honor Roll and I was even Valedictorian in middle school. In high school, I stayed in the top 25 of my school.

I was in Advanced Placement classes for English, Spanish, and History. I even took a college course in English my senior year. I was in regular classes for my two worst subjects, Math and Science, but I still scored well enough in them. Gym wasn't really graded for us. If you showed up, dressed and participated, you passed. It was very hard to fail gym unless you did nothing all year and didn't have a doctor's note.

I never failed a class. I did fail one test, but the whole class failed that particular test. That teacher was really horrible and the problem was with her, not us. She got furious at us and wanted to weight that test to fail us all for the semester, but the principal wouldn't let her fail the entire AP English class over one test. She was forced to grade the test on a curve so we all passed.

 

[hakutaku]

Pretty good! I never put much effort into school but I always managed to get decent/good grades. I've never failed anything but I did drop an A-Level Psychology class because it was stressing me out too much

In primary school I started off in all the lowest groups (to the point where I was put in a special class for a bit when I was really young because the teachers thought I was stupid ig), but ended my time at primary school in all the highest groups, and got good results in my SATs. No idea why, but I didn't start developing intelligence until I was like 9 years old.

In high school I was in all the top sets and ended up passing all my GCSEs despite not studying for any of them . My best subjects were History + English Lit, I got As in both subjects. I got all Bs and Cs in the rest of my GCSEs.

I also didn't study for my A-Levels but somehow managed to pass them all. Got a B in History, a B in English Lit, and a C in Government + Politics.

Currently studying History at university and doing quite well! I'm putting more effort into uni than I put into school lol. I've never gotten below a First on any the essays I've written so far Hoping to keep that up...will find out my latest essay grade tomorrow.

I've always been bad at exams but great at coursework/essays. I'm bad at memorizing stuff but good at writing and analysis. University is going well because literally all of the work is long essays.

 

[Autumn247]

Really good (All A's, some B's) until middle school when I started having mental health issues. Then school was a major struggle all the way through till high school graduation, I barely graduated. I took a a couple semesters of college and did really good, all As, then started struggling with my mental health again and had to take a break from college for awhile.

 

[moo_nieu]

great. schoolwork and testing were never a struggle for me thankfully. i didnt really have to study much or try hard (with the exception of a couple neuroscience classes in college)

 

[oak]

I did good/average mostly through out high school and then my final year (grade 12) I got super depressed and bombed my classes. I managed to graduate though and that's all that mattered to me.

 

[Jhine7]

Graduated with high honors in high school, probably top 15 in my class of 180. Started off college strong but some math classes decreased the GPA a bit. Still graduated within 4 years for my degree though

 

[Mr_Persona]

No. Every year I did good. Even though school was boring for me everyday and I never was super interested in any of the subjects(not counting the electives/additional classes) besides science and chemistry. Only time I was about to fail a class well they never said i was but it was some robot class. Forgot what level and the name of the class and it was mostly just coding and building robots and it was boring. But the main problem with that class was the teachers.

 

[Romaki]

I never failed, but I was too depressed to study. C-D student there.

Now in "work school" I'm literally acing my classes. School is so much easier when you just enjoy the act of learning for one reason or the other. Personally I just enjoy putting the effort into it now.

But it's so much easier as an adult who doesn't get bullied.

 

[Midoriya]

Yeah, I failed a class in school, but it was in university and didn’t end up counting towards anything because I switched my major shortly afterwards to something that better suits me.

However, I graduated as Salutatorian from high school (2nd best GPA), and managed to graduate from a very, very studious university that’s one of the top-ranked ones in my state. Not only that, but I did all of that while having autism, with the statistic that at least 50% of people with it don’t graduate from university/college. Oh, and I did that while battling depression as well.

I’m super happy to be done with school though. Working is so much more my thing.

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

they were good, the only classes i failed were ones i didnt need/didnt have an interest in.

 

[Bluebellie]

My grades were good all throughout primary-high school. I took mainly advanced and AP classes and passed them all with flying colors.

My favorite year was definetly senior year. I enjoyed selecting a bunch of Artsy classes. I took like two AP Art classes, and some photography classes since I was over credits from previous years. I graduated top 10% in my class.

After high school, it went downhill.
I was working 50 hours a week, and also going to school full time. I literally had no break. I was going to school in the morning, closing work at night and working the weekends. I was working minimum wage trying to pay for my car and my classes.

I failed my first class and that was my breaking point. It was Veterinary Pharmacology. The teacher was not good at all. I also stink at math, and there were a lot of formulas. My work managers at that time were also quite awful. They kept scheduling me on days I had exams even after I would request them them off. That was it for me. I ended up dropping out of university. It was too much, and honestly, the field was not something I was enjoying.

I focused on finding a new job as well with a much better pay. Even though I’m into going to school, I find what I’m doing now to be much better. Im definitely less stressed now that I’m not going to school. I felt like I was working myself to pay for classes that I wasn’t even focusing on, for a major that I wasn’t even quite sure I liked. I love animals, but the work was very sad and disgusting, and people are really cruel.

I’m not sure I’ll ever go back to school, but I don’t necessarily think I need to.

 

[Beanz]

i’m still in highschool and my grades right now are surprisingly good, my grades in middle school were absolutely terrible. i don’t know if it was the school environment or what, but in 7th and 8th grade, i considered getting straight C’s to be good because i kept getting D’s and E’s. when the pandemic started in early 2020, my school went virtual and i started to get better grades. i swear, i would’ve repeated 8th grade if it weren’t for online learning. as a result of my bad grades, i got rejected by almost all of the private highschools i applied to except for the one that i go to now. middle school was disastrous, i just did not care about my grades and i didn’t even bother to study for tests.

 

[Xara]

i’m still in high school at almost 20 years old and probably won’t be graduating this year, either, so that’s probably a telltale sign that i’ve failed a couple classes or several.

i don’t remember what my grades were like in elementary or middle school, but my grades have always been pretty good in high school — i’m not a straight A student by any means, but i do alright and typically get marks in the 60’s-90’s range, depending on the class.

i’ve failed a handful of classes over the past few years, but not because of my grades. my mental health, physical health and stuff going on in my personal life has interfered (and continues to interfere) with my schooling a lot, to the point where i was unable to attend and complete any assignments or tests/exams, hence the failings. if i had been able to attend school and do my work, i probably wouldn’t have failed anything and would’ve graduated in 2020.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Pretty shameful but I failed like 5 classes in college (was supposed to be 7 classes but the professors were merciful)

In high school I think I failed a math class so they had to put me in a basic math class.. which actually turned out to be a pretty fun class as far as math goes.

 

[Neb]

My grades were overall pretty good. I had the second highest GPA in my grade during elementary school. I only got As and Bs during middle school as well. In High school I did struggle due to my deteriorating mental health. Once I reached sophomore year I managed to exit that rut and continued to do well in class. Despite that rough first year I still had a 3.5 GPA. Not amazing, but pretty good considering what I went through.

 

[skarmoury]

I had good grades from grade school to uni despite... not really thinking about it for the most part? I actually had very, very strict conditioning in grade school (it was not a fun experience, haha), but if there's one good thing that came out of it, it was that I was rather good at studying. Not necessarily diligent, I procrastinate often, but somehow I always came out with above-average scores despite my erratic study schedule. I remember in uni, one of my upper batch friends asked me during my 3rd year if I was running for *** laude, and I said I honestly didn't know. He then told me that I should be more conscious of my grades and stuff. I got really conscious of the conversation since I never really though of getting any latin honors, but when I calculated my grade, I was actually in the running LOL. My grade average was in a comfortable position at the time that I could get low grades in some subjects and still be *** laude. Ended up doing so while juggling a new relationship with my current boyfriend, hehe. (It's always "Don't have a partner until you graduate!" schtick, but I disagree, heh.)

Anyway, for my standing, I graduated valedictorian in grade school, with high honors in high school, and *** laude in uni.

The hard thing is that as I got good credentials growing up, I got accepted into harder-to-get schools, and I got lumped with people who were really, really good. It slowly took a toll on my self-esteem for years, and now that I'm in medical school, everything's just academics on steroids. It's so hard to keep up with everyone and everything now, and I find myself lagging behind. I really don't like comparing myself to everyone else, because I know I'm probably not as smart as my classmates, but I'm still passing my subjects (I think, anyway) so that's good enough for me. I don't wanna be too hard on myself. As long as I get that MD, I'd be really happy.

Have I failed a subject? Not yet, so far anyway. I couldn't afford to fail because I was on scholarship in high school and uni, and I'd be striked if i failed a subject. That isn't to say I didn't fail exams; I almost failed Biochem in uni and dropped the subject before the deadline LOL. Got a warning for dropping but I passed the second time around so that's fine. I also almost failed Economics in high school (got a whopping 0 on one of the exams LMAO) but managed to scrape enough to pass. Our teacher in Econ was good but I absolutely sucked at it. I even got second highest in one of the Econ periodical exams, and holy cow I was crying when they called my name HAHAHA.

(edit: funny that tbt censored my latin honors HAHAHA)

 

[ali.di.magix]

I did pretty well throughout primary and intermediate school. I got excellence awards throughout intermediate. I was in the 2nd best class for my first two years of high school. I took advanced courses for maths and science for the next few years. I was one of the top 5 students for the STEM classes. I got mostly merits and excellences and no fails throughout high school.

University, however, was completely different. I was middle of the road for the most part. I failed 3 courses in total, which did mean that I had to prolong my degree. It was a massive wake up call and learning curve for me. However, I met some of my best friends through retaking courses. I wouldn't change a thing from that.

 

[ChocoPie22]

I failed pretty much every class in my freshman year of high school. I've managed to stay on track with my classes since then, and haven't failed anything. I had to do Modern World History A and B the summer before my Sophomore year, retook the second semester of Geometry during my Sophomore year, the summer before Junior year I took English 09 B, and U.S History A and B. I can't do history over the normal school year, because I will fail, no matter how much I study. Took Biology again during my junior year, did English 09 A, Economics, and American Government the summer before senior year, now senior year I will be graduating this year, because of all the making up that I did. My school is also very strict with failing classes we have a "100% graduation rate" but the only reason we have it is because my school kicks people that aren't on track for graduation to a separate section of the school, it's part of the district, but isn't seen as part of my school. I was about to go there but had to sign a contract that if I ever got a D or F again, or looked like I wasn't on track for graduation they would kick me off to that school.