Just wondering. Overall, I’m making all As for all my courses in my first fall semester and it’s so easy, to be honest. I study, write essays, do my speeches, finish my art projects, and so on. How hard will it be when I make straight As as the years go by?
It depends. Either you are very bright and hard working or you are attending a college with grade inflation.
My community college does gpa on a cumulative gpa. And what do you mean by grade inflation? And of course I am bright and hard working. I am always meticulous of my work and making sure it’s turned in on time.
Definitely it depends. As you go from high school to university to upper year university to graduate school the courses get harder. However, they also get more focused. At some point you will find that A’s at least require a lot of work.
Personally I found straight A’s in high school to be impossible. In some subjects in high school B’s were very hard. Straight A’s in university were hard. Straight A’s in graduate school was just what I did – but then working pretty much all waking hours was also what I did in graduate school. Two things that made A’s easier to come by as I got further in school: One was that my courses were more in my major rather than the wide range of subjects (I am much better at some things than I am at other things). The other is that I was more mature, I worked harder, and more importantly I worked more consistently – always keeping ahead in classes rather than falling behind and then catching up with a rush of excessive work.
Other people have very different results.
“I am always meticulous of my work”
This plus keeping ahead at all times definitely will help you a lot.
Grade inflation example: the average grade for all students in the class is A-.
It sounds like you are doing the things that are necessary to maintain a high gpa. Keep it up. Classes WILL get harder but if your academic strengths align well to the courses you take you can do it. Don’t get hung up on the magical 4.0 but rather focus on taking the right classes for your eventual transfer and major. A 3.7 with the right courses is way more important than a 4.0 made up of non-transferable fluff.
Exactly, I’m taking a few basics and some basics that are part of my major: Accounting. I need to take two accounting courses, two economic courses, one business calculus class, one statistics course, one business computer science course, and pretty much the rest that don’t apply to my major but still need to be taken as a basics.
The classes i listed listed are what I need to take before transferring from my local community college to my university.
I bet I have to work everyday and not take a day off from school. I typically spend the rest of my weekends doing endless schoolwork.
It depends on your major