HS grade trend: up, down or steady?

Data10
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 04:11:55 +0000

There is a huge amount of variation. I know kids that intentionally started taking school more seriously in 10th grade due being a key year for the CA system. And I also know many kids that had “senioritis.” However, I’d expect most on here received excellent grades throughout high school.

When I was in HS, if a subject interested me and had objective grading; I’d generally do well. If this criteria was not met, I’d often not do as well. I had more control to choose courses that interested me in upperclassmen years, and I also had the opportunity to take classes that were at a more challenging level at a nearby university; so my grades improved overall, but still closely followed subject (math/science/CS/… = higher grade, English/language/… = lower grade). When entering college, again I had more control to select subjects and fields that I was passionate about found more challenging, so again my grades improved overall, but still were notably correlated with subject.