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Transcript Throughout my four years of high school I have tried to maintain a B average and I get comments from teachers on whatever I have to do better. My most difficult subject was any history class. My sophomore year the class I struggled with the most was my history class and I ended with a D in that class other than that I was an average student. My sophomore year was not a really good year for me. My junior year I did way better in all my classes and the classes I did bad the year before I made them up by staying after school and making up credits at Jamison. I am much more satisfied with my grades this year than my past years. My grades have teached me that I am going to need to study a little more harder in my college years. Attendance
Worrying too much about grades can cause students serious problems like not really understanding the work, make them not feel smart enough and lose interest in school and can cause anxiety and other health issues. In the article Mr. Bains said “ Indeed, there are several problems with strategic learners” (Project Information Literacy October 10, 2012 page1/4). One of the problems is students don 't really understand what they are learning if once they reach that high grade they want they will just stop. I am very guilty of only performing for the grade because I did it all throughout high school. I was taught that getting an A was the highest grade you can get so once I reached that A I...
Walking into Walnut Hills High School right now would have anyone thinking the just walked into the middle of a tornado. Everyone you look there are students running in and out of doors, in and out of cars, and most certainly either turning in missing assignments or retaking tests. There is only one way for you to explain all this ciaos, Senior Year, the year that all teens await with so much excitement and ambition and the year that every single hour long study dates pays off. For the class of 2021 this isn’t just their final year at Walnut Hills this is the year that friends separate and head off to their different university to follow their dreams.
High school is meant to be the time of your life, but for most seniors just like me it can be some of the most emotional and crazy time. The things in my past make me who I am today, and the things I do now are the first footsteps into the future. I’ve learned a lot about myself in these past four years, and I still have so much learning to do. This is my high school story; the good, bad, and the ugly.
When I was entering into High School, I tried to join as many clubs as I can, since I wanted not only to be superior in grades, but also extracurricular activities. So as usual, I joined Key Club. At first volunteering at the events was fun, but as I went to more events, it felt as if it was a chore. I did not feel any passion; it was rather tiresome.
My GPA is a 4.1000 and it teeters between 4.1500 and 4.1000. I haven't ever had a C and my grades are all A’s or A+’s. I also make sure I behave in class, so my work habits grades are also all A’s and A+’s. I’m consistently make sure that I keep my grades where they are and I always am striving for my best. If I do happen to get a grade I'm not fond of, I make sure that as soon as possible I get my grade back up to the desired A or A+. For instance, once I had a complex goal not met, so as soon as I could, I made sure I got my grade up. Now that goal is met and my grade for that quarter is A+. Even in the topics I don't enjoy as much, I make sure I work my hardest. I’m always trying to improve my grade with extra credits and 4.0 opportunities. This shows that I do meet the grade requirement for
Throughout my four years in high school I have been fortunate enough to fulfill many of my aspirations and my thirst for knowledge. One goal that I would like to achieve is to become an international attorney. I have aligned my involvement in specific academic and extra-curricular activities to aid me preparing for the long road between my present situation and the day I pass the bar exam. Through my high school activities I have learned three virtues that I have deemed necessary to achieve my goal, passion, self-discipline, and perseverance.
During my early education, meaning elementary school and middle school, I was a very average student. I gave an average amount of effort to my grades, and I received above average results. This did not bother me, until the end of my 8th-grade year. At this point in the year, I was filling out what classes I desired to take the following year, my freshman year. I realized that from this point forward, I had to take my education much more serious, in order to get accepted to whichever college I desired. therefore, when planning my classes, I decided to challenge myself more than I ever have in the past, and take multiple honors courses. I assumed because of my grades, that I had what it took to be an honors-level student, but I was very wrong. One teacher, Mrs. Johnson, made me realize the kind of effort, time and energy needed to be devoted to my education.
Grades are one of the most important factors of my high school career. My grade point average and my SAT's determine what college I go to. They determine my effort at high school. I must do whatever possible to keep my grade point average above 3.0. My GPA currently is ok, but if I could increase it by just .2 I would be much better off. Grades are very crucial for getting acceptance to college. They are one of the major things that colleges look at to accept you (or so I have been told). So I will keep pushing myself so that my grades will increase this year, making it possible for me to hopefully enter a better school then I can right now.
Let’s flash back in time to before our college days. Back to then we had lunch trays filled with rubbery chicken nuggets, stale pizza, and bags of chocolate milk. A backpack stacked with Lisa Frank note books, flexi rulers, and color changing pencils. The times where we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive, but we did. Through all the trials and tribulations school helped build who I am today and shaped my future. From basic functions all the way to life-long lessons that helped shape my character.
In the beginning of the year, my grades were struggling and I was struggling to keep them above a 90%.
Parents should expect a lot from their kids, especially kids that go to Iolani, where people always joke about kids going to Iolani not getting enough sleep and constantly studying. I think that I perfectly fit the motto of an Iolani student, I'm constantly studying and even working on this essay on a No Homework weekend, because I think that if I don't do anything, then I'll be stressed out later. My parents are happy with me trying my best and although I'm not a straight A student, they still want me to get good grades, help around the house, and get a good job in the future. In the 1st quarter, I got a C+ in AP US History, one of the hardest AP classes at Iolani. Throughout the quarter, I tried really hard to maintain a B average but
At this point I looked at what I needed to take care of noticing that most of my classes that I wasn't doing too well in were heavily dependent on homework rather than tests and projects which I normally did well on, for my other classes it was a mixture of just not doing homework and not understanding the subject being taught which led to bad test grades. After realizing what I had done or rather what I have not done in my classes I looked at what I could do to change it around, I started to pay more attention in class along with asking my teachers for any missing assignments I had in order to complete them and turn them in, after turning in my missing assignments my grades were looking better, not as good as they could be, but still a much better improvement compared to before. In order to get my grades to where I had wanted them to be I became more organized and more serious about my studies and started to always pay attention in class and turned in homework in on time, after doing this for a while my grades slowly started to rise and kept rising until my grades were great giving me higher than a 3.0 gpa compared to the lower than 2.5 gpa that I had
Before, I thought that everybody gets into college, no matter what grades they had in high school. My Grandmother wanted me to make all A’s and B’s, I always wondered why. Why must I worry about my grades, I will get into college regardless of the grade. My mother explained to me that my grades matter since, it could make or break my GPA. GPA’s plus standardized testing scores are what get people into college. Now that I realize this, I try my best to excel my high school courses and my dual-enrollment courses at Tri-County. When my friends tell me that they struggle with grades, I try to help them for, I want for them to be able to go to college, since college is the first step to a decent
The teacher was a good teacher even though she taught at a fast pace. I did everything I was required to do in that class. I completed the homework and handed them in on time, I made sure I did my best on every project, but my test and quiz grades varied from failing to 90s. Unfortunately I didn’t do as well as I wanted to on the midterm despite studying. Technically I didn’t fail because my grade was not lower than a 65, but it was a fail for me.
Good grades have always come easily for me. I was coasting through High School, counting down to the next football game or social event. As gratifying as it was seeing those A’s on my report card each semester, I came to realize that I wasn’t being challenged and I was feeling unfulfilled. Up until then I had only taken “regular” classes; ensuring I would continue seeing all A’s.