What Kind Of Student Were You In High School?

[arwalden]

Poll question: What Kind Of Student Were You In High School?

In general... if you took ALL your grades and averaged them together, what would your final grade be?

-- Allen

P.S. Overall, I was a "B". (Thank goodness for Languages, History, Art, Music... I was horrible with Math and Sciences... and P.E.)

(Virginia public schools used ABCDF... so that's what I'm familiar with. If your school used some other scale I guess you'll just have to translate. Sorry.)

[Nikia]

1. Straight A's

A- in accounting so I graduated third in the class. High school was easy for me. I studied to make sure I got the As. College was much more difficult. I wasn't used to studying 25 hours per week, which is the average number of hours that students studied at my college and ended up a B student there.

[maxanne]

2. lousy

Looking at my high school transcripts gives no indication anyone was home.

I hated high school. I hated living at home. I left both at 16.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. When I was in high school my grades went

AC/DC

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. That's pretty funny... I had a hard time not going to go see

AC/DC... or were they around then? I can't remember.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. They were around but didn't get big in America til 79

[Journeyman]

6. Solid C in high school. . .

summa cum laude out of the University.

Gotta admit, I loved to party when I was a teen.

[5thGenDemocrat]

7. F

Actually, 0.00. It's the main reason I took my GED and went into the Army. At the rate I was going, I'd still be at Arthur Hill.
John
Hey, I skipped a lot. Like, daily.
And I graduated from (community) college with a 3.18 and was editor of the college paper.

[supernova]

8. As and Bs mostly

High School as well as college. But I never could get more than a C out of Algebra in High School.

[MattNC]

9. A's and B's

and that's with hardly ever trying

[JohnKleeb]

10. I am a low B and high C on average I guess

I no doubt have the worst grades of all the people my age and there bouts here, which is ok.

[Swede]

11. It was the best of time,it was the worst of times.......

Partied hardy,I let my grades slide. Bad time to be making life's future choices.

[Mass_Liberal]

12. am doing B+s

but, history and english are easy. MATH IS HELL. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!!

[JohnKleeb]

13. What math are you in?

I am pathenic, Junior and in Geometry. History and English are my strengths too, Math and Science screw me generally.

[curse10]

14. 4.0 baby!

I loved school. Still do :-)

[JohnKleeb]

16. Kirsten you genius you

Can I have a .5 of your overall GPA please :D, it would make mine higher and you would still have a 3.5.

[Sting]

15. B+ here

I graduated high school with B+ honors.

[SOteric]

17. Didn't do public schools, only parochial, private and prep

still had an accumulated GPA of 4.0 and graduated with highest honours.

I think my education has been a real asset in my embarking on a career as an 'ignerent anti-war Commy hippie freek.'

[KG]

18. with any kind of motivation i could been a straight A

by HS, i couldn't be bothered. bored to death.

my HS grade probaby dragged me down to a C+.

[Kamika]

19. I'm the kind that was suprised I managed to graduate

I'd rank myself as C+, NO idea what so ever how the heck I managed it though. But I did pretty good in history, music etc..

I always hated school with a passion since I had an incredibly hard time to learn to read and write (dylectic).

And I really really hated math. If my parents hadn't been so strict I would have cut tons of school, thank God for my parents :D.

Atleast I have a HS diploma

[goobergunch]

20. A's

but that was before I joined DU.

[Skittles]

21. A-

I had a pretty tough father - I had to explain "B"s. I would have been afraid to go home with a C which luckily I never did. :O

[SmileyBoy]

22. 2.92 GPA. Highest student in my class not in the cummulative honor roll.

Most of the A's I got were in my freshman and sophomore years. The classes got harder, and more C's popped up. Throughout four years, I recieved one F and two D's. I actually graduated a semester early.

[sleipnir]

23. I fucked around way too much

Grades just didn't bother me that much, probably should have, but well, that's how it goes...


When I got college interviews, they always remarked how my test scores were way higher than they should have been for someone with a B average. Not that it was a bad thing, I wasn't turned down from any of my five schools that I applied to (and most were pretty prestigious, as far as Midwest schools go.)

[cosmicdot]

24. when I was in HS - an A was based on the numerical 94 to 100

I think 74 was an F

I think I graduated 18th in my class.


when I taught school

59 was failing - of course, officially, numerical grades weren't suppose to be given, just letter grades A, B, C, D, E (changed from F because of automation)

[arwalden]

25. E instead of F? --- When I Was In Elementary School...

... an "E" was "Excellent".

If I recall correctly, the choices were "U"-Unsatisfactory, "I"-Improvement Needed, "S"-Satisfactory, "E"-Excellent.

I guess that "59" you mentioned was a result of the "soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations" that good old Dubya benefitted from.

-- Allen

[Nikia]

36. At my sister's urban school E was 0.0 but passing

I went to live with my father when my step father was transferred to a metro area. My sister tried prep school, but ran into some snobbery issues and ended up at one of the city public schools. She brought home her handbook. It designated the grading scale. Below a D, one could an "E" which averaged as a 0.0 in GPA but meant that you still passed the class. I think it went down to a 20%.

[cosmicdot]

42. when I taught, someone could be absent most of the marking period

miss most of the tests ... could come out with a .5 or .6 letter grade

A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1
E/F = 0

(most teachers designed tests using the 1-100 scale to assign letter grades; 90-100 = A or 4.0)

[cosmicdot]

41. part of data processing, keypunch-batch operation for reading grades

each student's grade per class were No. 2 pencilled on IBM cards each marking period

reading A, B, C, D, E in sucession worked better
than A, B, C, D, F

of course, that was in the dinosaur days (70s - yipes) when I taught

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[SmileyBoy]

28. I think the standard is: A-90-100, B-80-89, C-70-79, D-60-69, and F-0-59.

At least that's the standard at my college.

[THUNDER HANDS]

26. First Three Years - C ... Senior Year - All A's

I didn't care about school when I was a kid. I was basically the kid who always raised his hand in class and could answer anything and do great papers - but hated homework and tests.

[Aragorn4president]

27. top ten

Graduated tenth in a class of 391...

[Lizz612]

29. Math and science saved me.

So did ceramics. :eyes: I suck at English and history. Give me all math and science all the time and I'm happy. I was about a 3.3 or so.

[leftist_rebel1569]

30. I'm a B student, I guess

I'm doing a little better lately, but on average i'm closest to being a B student

[cally]

31. I was always a good student

I just have the ability to really test well. It's an art. I once had to take a multiple choice test for a job advancement and I really didn't know the subject that well. I asked co-workers some questions, crammed all night, and passed. Folks who had been trying for years did not pass which I feel bad for.

I got A's in HS, College, and Grad School. I seemed to know what the teachers/profs would ask on tests.

[MrSlayer]

32. B+ but only because I didn't care.

Had I applied myself I would have had straight A's. Even with my half hearted effort I finished 26th out of 330 and was in the National Honors Society 3 of 4 years, also was in detention most of the time. I hated school.

[mlawson]

33. We had to have 95 for an A, my average was only 93.

Which I can blame a lot on the damn jocks, who could drive the rest of us crazy with total impunity...

The happiest day of my life was the day I walked out of there for the last time, May 23, 1967!!!! I still celebrate the aniversary.

[Norbert]

34. A "C" student underacheiver in high school

In my defence it did turn it around in college and wasn't far from a "Cum Laude" graduate. $@!&#^ differential equasions!

[retread]

35. Was a long time ago and there wasn't

much worth paying attention to.

[gyopsy]

37. I had about a 3.3 GPA

Good grades but not so good as to make me an outcast by my pot-smoking peers.

[populistmom]

38. I was rather B-ish

I had almost all A's through elementary school (one of those kids tagged as "gifted" because I always tested well on the standardized stuff), but I think too many moves as a child and family problems took their toll on me eventually and I didn't try as hard as I could by the time I got to high school coasting along, content at "doing okay".

[mndemocrat_29]

39. Mostly A's and A-'s

[Doc_Technical]

40. C, I guess

I was only there physically.

[camero]

43. B student here too

3.25 GPA but I didn't do homework until the 11th grade. P.E. bumped me up.

[Booberdawg]

44. Honor's student

You wouldn't know it now ...

[VOX]

45. B+. Graduated with honors - got to wear a silver tassel on my mortarboard

Oddly though, the silver tassel has turned gold over time. Seriously!
:toast:

edit: bloody typos!

[Padraig18]

46. Mostly A's, with an occasional B.

:hi:

[Darth_Ole]

47. I'm in HS now.

I hate it, but get all A's and the occasional B. My parents really ride me on the B's. Even when I get low A they jump on my back. All in good meaning, though.

[SheilaT]

48. I graduated

a year early. Actually persuaded my school to let me be a senior in my third year. In National Honor Society. 26th out of 420 students, and that year (1965) the class had a lot of really smart kids. I'd have been in the top ten had I graduated with my own class, which was just as large.

My school didn't give A's, B's, etc, but a numerical grade. 1 was the highest (equivalent to an A), next was 2 (B) and so on. And grades weren't weighted for honors. I had a 1.3 GPA which of course on the usual scale would be horrifyingly bad. Took me many years to adjust to the idea that a 4.0 was a good GPA, rather than a solid D average.

[ProudGerman]

49. Dropped out

Before I did that, I was a B student while putting no effort whatsoever into it. Depression sucks big hairy ones.

[aquaman]

50. Not so good, I dropped out....

Now I have my masters degree and will be working on my Ph.D. within the next two years. Not bad for a drop out.

[Bucky]

51. C+ in high school, A- in college

And I did a lot of Js in the three years between leaving high school and starting college.

[Guaranteed]

52. In high school? 4.1 GPA

1450 on my SAT and PSAT, aced the math (800) on both. Was #1 in my class for the first three years, until I blew it senior year. Still graduated in the top 2%, though. Ditched school a lot, all four years.

Then I got a full ride scholarship to University of California, Santa Barbara. Got straight A's my first quarter. After that, it was ALL downhill- too much partying. Ended up with a 3.18. Oh well.

I used to be pretty sharp- before the drugs. Like David Crosby said, if there's one thing I regret about the 60's (or the 90's, in my case), it's the drugs.

[RandomKoolzip]

53. I was a drug-taking Western Civ freak.

I can barely remember high school, I was high on something or other (usually acid) most of the time. But I still pulled A's in English and Western Civ...I loved history; I read about politics and history even in the summertime. My Western Civ teacher once told me that I was the best student he ever had, but I "Ran with the wrong crowd."

Couldn't do math, still can't. HATE math. Always got straight C minuses or D's. Science: C+'s.

And don't even bring up PE. I skipped it every chance I got. I was overweight and a lazy hippie-punk musician, so the appeal of chasing around a fucking dodgeball or spending any extra time in a locker room with other boys than I had to held zero appeal.

Still, I managed to graduate with honors and win a scholarship to study English, so I guess I as kind of a succesful fuckup. (Don't ask me about college...too painful to discuss right now.)

[BritishHuman]

54. At 'O' level I got

2 'A's, 5 'B's and a 'C'. I guess that averages out to B+.

That's up to age 16. I'm not sure where American High School stops.

[Interrobang]

55. I got an academic letter from my high school...

That was 80% (an A in our system) or better in best 20 credits, and I don't know how I got that, except that I graduated high school with 41 credits, where 32-35 was about average. (I took extra credits my first three years, and then a heavier courseload than most people for the other two -- yes, high school in Ontario, up until last year, was FIVE years!)

I still maintain I was a B student, though. I didn't start getting solid 80+ averages until my second year of university. Everyone says your grades are supposed to go down 15% in first year (the dreaded "Freshman 15"), but mine went from 77% to 78%, then to 80% and 83%... My grad school average was 84%, so I should get 90s in my doctoral courses (yeah, RIGHT!)...

High school was hell, though. University was MUCH better!

[elperromagico]

56. Well, I was a lazy student, so I had a 3.4 GPA,

but a 28 on the ACT, which is allegedly good.

[Cosmic_Latte]

57. Somewhere between B+ and B

That is, if you don't count the future! :-)

[NicoleM]

58. 4.0, finished in 3 years

But I went to an extremely crappy high school.

[trof]

59. White, male, 5'8" to 6' 3".

Oh.
Lower mediocre?
I have a pretty high IQ <blush> and won a Merit Scholarship award and took three tries to get through Chemistry 1. Once in summer school, which I flunked. This is as close as I ever came to considering suicide. I was a one time loser in trig. Passed French every OTHER semester. I think I basically just didn't give a sh*t and I really don't know why.