All to average GPA

[Animegamer]

Most people in college tend to get A's or perhaps sometimes high range B's... because thats usually what employers look for. But for me that seems to be something I can't achieve, even working at my max compasity studying several hours a night a lower B or higher C seems to best I can do, no matter what the subject. My it be PC tech, Spanish, History or even English grammar (my native language) I can never push below the lower B catigory. Anger and frustration sets in when I see egg heads who barely put in any study time score higher than me, while I have to study all night for that B- or C+

Ive fixed my study habbits to text book unification, I take organized notes, I make flash cards for vocab words and or important elements. I keep my work sheets and tests in organized folders... Even my teachers usually don't understand why I don't preform as well as the majority of the class.

I believe this is all caused by one major problem,

Slow information absorbsion.

The teacher may repeat a sentence, words or explain how something works. Others in my class may catch on immediately and be able to construct a new sentence immeditely from the information that has just been presented. For me to do the same, even on an average level I have to write all the information down and decode it like a puzzle. Then to remember it for a test I have to go home and repeat the same thing at least a dozen or so times until its ground into my head.

Why do the (majority of, pretty much everyone but retards) have an advantage over me? Am I doing something wrong?

Ive yet to find a solution

[Anigen]

i always ass school with straight a's

my secret is not studying

[Animegamer]

If I do that I get F's

[redmongoose]

fuck school! knowledge is for chumps!

[Shida]

Some people find academia easy, showing a natural intelligence that probably amounts to them being information sponges.

However, grades aren't everything! More to life than just learning knowledge and then spewing it back on a piece of paper to be ranked against thousands of other students and then being assigned a grade based on your performance vs everyone else's.

Experience counts. Some of the best people in the world today weren't all that good at school.

[Rainier]

Experience counts. Some of the best people in the world today weren't all that good at school.

Hmm... so there's still some hope for me yet. =P

I was hopeless at school, but I think it may have been the result of some bloody learning disorder.  That, and I was bullied a lot, so my self-esteem was shot.  I could never keep attention in class, and always used to daydream while practicing my hobbies at molding things out of blu tak, and drawing stuff that was devoted to my fandom of the first C&C games.  Eh, it's not like all my of my teachers were perfect anyway.  I remember passing math in Year 10 because the teacher had failed to teach us properly... so she gave the entire class extra credit.  Pretty good for a private school, eh?

So I feel that there's something else that employers should remember while looking at grades.  How good were the student's teachers?  I had a friend that was trying to complete a university degree in graphical mechanics, or something.  He pulled out at the last year because the lecturer he had for the year before that was from India.  From what I gathered, he could not speak coherent english, and that hardly anyone, except my friend, turned up for his classes.  That's the system failing the student right there.  A better teacher will always graduate better students.

[Shida]

To be honest, there is far too much emphasis on grades these days, due to League Tables and whatnot. As such, a good majority of students across the nation are taught only how to pass the exams, and not to understand what it is being taught, so that more students get the higher grades, which makes the school and the teachers look better. High grades doesn't necessarily mean a work-able person.

Take for example: Oxford University, one of the most prestigious public universities in the world. They take the crème de la crème, high grades and stuff, but still have to hold a foundation year for some students (including British students) so they can brush up on their English and Maths skills, things that an employer looks for in their employees. In fact, many employers complain that their employees do not have the basic skills needed for office jobs.

[rtil]

over here a lot of people take prep classes so they can learn all the tricks on the sat and act so they can get higher scores. they cost thousands of dollars. i did really bad on my pre-sat, especially in math and english.

so my strategy when i took the actual sat was to pick the answer i thought was totally wrong. i scored very well. i didn't learn jack squat. in fact, i don't remember anything from high school i deemed as useful.

[Dagolith]

Most people in college tend to get A's or perhaps sometimes high range B's... because thats usually what employers look for. But for me that seems to be something I can't achieve, even working at my max compasity studying several hours a night a lower B or higher C seems to best I can do, no matter what the subject. My it be PC tech, Spanish, History or even English grammar (my native language) I can never push below the lower B catigory. Anger and frustration sets in when I see egg heads who barely put in any study time score higher than me, while I have to study all night for that B- or C+

Ive fixed my study habbits to text book unification, I take organized notes, I make flash cards for vocab words and or important elements. I keep my work sheets and tests in organized folders... Even my teachers usually don't understand why I don't preform as well as the majority of the class.

I believe this is all caused by one major problem,

Slow information absorbsion.

The teacher may repeat a sentence, words or explain how something works. Others in my class may catch on immediately and be able to construct a new sentence immeditely from the information that has just been presented. For me to do the same, even on an average level I have to write all the information down and decode it like a puzzle. Then to remember it for a test I have to go home and repeat the same thing at least a dozen or so times until its ground into my head.

Why do the (majority of, pretty much everyone but retards) have an advantage over me? Am I doing something wrong?

Ive yet to find a solution

i know how you feel, i study for hours; go over it time and time again. but i just cant get an A. what the fucks up with that? my I.Q. is 156 so how the hell is this so hard?

[Shida]

A high IQ doesn't mean you're smart by the school grading system. It just means you can understand abstract patterns better than most people.

[Dagolith]

A high IQ doesn't mean you're smart by the school grading system. It just means you can understand abstract patterns better than most people.

no, it actually has little to do with that, your I.Q. gauges the amount of information that can be processed at any given time, so i guess in a sence abstract patterns seem simpler, but it applies to everything.

my problem is with my awful short term memmory, the hand off is that i have an excellent long term memmory; fat lotta good that does me if the standard school system doesn't allow me enough time to commit it to memmory.

[psi43]

I have an excellent long and short time memory. That's most probably why was able to learn English very fast. I learned it within one and a half year.

I also remember everyone who was in the Lock Legion from the 15th of May 2006 (when I joined) until today, I also remember how they acted. I can't list them, but whenever I hear their name or see their work I know exactly who he is, what he is like and everything else.

I get mostly good grades in school. From A-C only, C's are very seldom though.


EDIT:

i know how you feel, i study for hours; go over it time and time again. but i just cant get an A. what the fucks up with that? my I.Q. is 156 so how the hell is this so hard?

Please don't tell me you took a shitty free internet test. If you did, then your IQ is FAR below 156. Internet IQ tests don't calculate right.

When I took an official IQ test, it told me that my IQ was 114. That was in 4th grade though, when I was 10. I am 16 now, so my IQ is probably 117-120, they barely rise.

[trent bortknob]

dagolith just because you have a high IQ doesn't mean you're "school smart"

[rtil]

i know how you feel, i study for hours; go over it time and time again. but i just cant get an A. what the fucks up with that? my I.Q. is 156 so how the hell is this so hard?

If this is true, you are in the top 0.009% of the world in IQ scores, and would be a member of an elite IQ society
somehow
i doubt this is true

[Animegamer]

lol last time mine was tested i think it was 109

[trent bortknob]

i know how you feel, i study for hours; go over it time and time again. but i just cant get an A. what the fucks up with that? my I.Q. is 156 so how the hell is this so hard?

If this is true, you are in the top 0.009% of the world in IQ scores, and would be a member of an elite IQ society
somehow
i doubt this is true

ahahahhAHAhahahhaha

[Anigen]

i know how you feel, i study for hours; go over it time and time again. but i just cant get an A. what the fucks up with that? my I.Q. is 156 so how the hell is this so hard?

If this is true, you are in the top 0.009% of the world in IQ scores, and would be a member of an elite IQ society
somehow
i doubt this is true

no that is definitely wrong

[Dagolith]

actually, all of you can suck my balls. my parents had me tested when i was younger because they thought that i had A.D.D. but all they found was an unusually high I.Q.

no that is definitely wrong

no one was talking to you, you dick monster.

[psi43]

actually, all of you can suck my balls. my parents had me tested when i was younger because they thought that i had A.D.D. but all they found was an unusually high I.Q.

no that is definitely wrong

no one was talking to you, you dick monster.

Nah, you're just lying. Admit it, dude, that's what all the cool people do.

[rtil]

actually, all of you can suck my balls.

how a person with an IQ of 156 proves a scientific fact

take notes everyone