<p>@Bingington - YES. That’s why I rarely tell people my grades anymore. It’s either I did not so well or I did okay.</p>
<p>@Preamble - Yeah, I think I do that unconsciously sometimes. Most of it is rooted from insecurities and low self-esteem. I just feel like everyone around me is so successful and smart and I’m just sitting in class hoping the teacher won’t pick on me so I won’t make a fool out of myself, even though everyone always thinks I know the answer all the time. Not to mention everyone in my stats class thinks I’m a genius, even though I just got an 88 on my stats test…but I digress.</p>
<p>I just don’t deal with pressure well, and I actually don’t like when people point out what they think I’m good at, because I feel like I have to live up to expectations and I never do.</p>
<p>By the way…kind of off-topic, but since we’re all kind of talking about grades…what grades (out of 100) would you guys get sad about? Not in elective classes, but the hardest class you’re enrolled in.</p>
<p>A 94. It’s bad enough I have a 86 now, but Surely to be known, that grade will go up to at least a 95 before progress reports of somewhere within that range. I felt so bad about my Biochem grade a few days ago… I had a 91, but I have a 98 now…</p>
<p>Anything below a 90 makes me sad - especially in English and History. I got back a Gov test that I thought I aced and I got an 89 and I was blind sided. It ruined my day for a good two hours.</p>
<p>Modesty is only annoying when the other person is going out of his or her way to seem modest. I dunno if that makes sense, but it’s easy to tell if someone is actually modest or not.</p>
<p>In HS organic chemistry I got an 86 on one test. (This is widely considered the hardest science class at my school, to the point that the cut-off for an A is 88, 76 for a B, etc.) I had a solid A in the class, and I knew this wasn’t a huge deal, but I still got irrationally REALLY upset about it. I tried not to show it, since I knew I still did a lot better than most people, but that didn’t stop me from feeling that way. I’m a perfectionist, to the point that I hardly got below 100% until middle school, and argued with teachers over the difference between 9 or 10 on a small assignment. I needed a dose of hard classes and lower scores than I was used to. I needed a dose of humility and readjustment of my expectations.</p>
<p>Since I’m in high school I want to get As (which at my school means 94+), but I know I’m probably not going to get a 4.0 in college. I feel like a 4.0 in college would indicate the college was too easy.</p>
<p>I get a little bit sad at anything that isn’t a 100, lmao. But as long as it’s 92.55% or higher I’ll be satisfied (92.55% is an A… I don’t like getting an A- because it just sticks out in the online gradebook when there’s a row of A’s then one with a minus attached, lol). </p>
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<p>That’s me in a lot of classes (especially Psychology!!!). In AP Psych the teacher eventually told students to address hard questions to me instead of him, because he generally ended up asking me anyways… so annoying. By the end of the year I said I don’t know to everything because it was just so annoying.</p>