Do colleges take a serious look at PLTW courses?

bopper
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:17:22 +0000

So you are a HS freshman taking a college level course. It is not surprising you are having some trouble.

If you think they are giving bad grades on a whim either:

1. You don’t understand the grading criteria and it is not whimsical

2. It is whimsical and you need to get to know the teacher better to figure out what they want.

In either case, Ask if the teacher has office hours and go over a project/hw /test that you got a bad grade on. Ask what the grading rubric is and go over your project and how it was graded. REdo that project based on what you learn from that (not for a grade, but to understand what was wanted) and ask what the grade would it get now.
For the next few homeworks/projects go to the help hours and get help so you understand what is expected.

Better to learn how to do this now rather than too late in college.