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Experiencing failing marks in school
11.13.02, 09:34:50
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We all have good marks as well as bad. And we take bad marks real hard. I do. In fact I've faced them in college, and right now in law school. I got a grade of "5" in Social Sciences 180, which really blemished my scholastical records (in fact, I was a College Scholar in 2nd Sem 1999-2000). I took 21 units in the second semester of 2000-01, including that subject. I passed only 12 of them, because one of the subjects is marked "INCOMPLETE" (History 200 - Bachelor's Thesis), another "DRP" (dropped Humanities 1, because the teacher's unreasonable), and "5" (SS 180). Had I taken another Humanities 1 section, and another subject instead of SS 180, I could have passed them all, but because my course adviser pressured me to take those damn subjects. So to hell with that. 
And just lately, I failed one of my subjects in law school - Criminal Law 1. I fear I could have failed not only that subject, but others as well, and may be dropped from the rolls if I don't do something about it. Now my back is against the wall. It's either do or die this second semester. If despite my best efforts I still failed, then the law course is not suited for me.
How do you cope up with failing marks in school? |
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R.I.P. March 2002 - October 2006
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| I just say well, if i want this that bad then i'm going to do it. I'll set myself a target and work hard to meet it. Even if i do get a good mark i won't let my work drop because i think i can do good now. It doesn't matter how good a mark you get, you can allways do better. Why don't you speak to your tutors and see which parts you did bad on and then you can go back over them and try again. Most teachers will be happy to help you. Quistyxxxx Good luck to you and i hope you get the grades that you deserve. |
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America: 250 million wankers living in a country with no word for wanker - Clarkson.
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| I dont have bad marks. I think you get bad marks when you dont study or when you have bad luck. When i dont study i use to look at my partners test. It can save your life. |
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"Kings don't make knights. Actions do."
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| I dont mean to doubt your methods or anything, Heavenly Knight. Its just that relying on your friends to help you won't get anybody anywhere in life. Your friend isn't allways going to be there for you and you will be out in life on yur own pretty soon and won't have your friend to help you then. Study is the only sure way to secure good marks. |
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| when i get bad marks i'm not too bothered by them...college is getting boring for me now...the way i think i'll do it is just do sod all work right up until the exam and then just learn it all then the night before the exam or whatever. |
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When I failed at Dalhousie University, I changed schools.
I was an average student in high school--70s and 80s, but I didn't really study; Then I got to Dal and it was all harder work by a long shot; I put in 4-6 hours of study per night, mostly for Calculus, because Cal makes my brain explode.
For 2 years, I studied for nothing but Cal, essentially, so my marks suffered in other courses, save for stuff like Poli Sci and French that I could do in my sleep. I wound up failing some other courses because I didn't study for them on account of studying for Cal, and I still failed Cal.
Problem is, Cal's a required subject for any Bacherlor of Science or Bachelor of Computer Science degree at Dal, so I couldn't skip it.
Solution: I dropped out of Dal and went to CompuCollege. Doesn't sound glamourous, but it worked. Going from an internationally renowned university to a private career college may seem like a step down, but it was the best thing I ever did. At Compu, they did like graduate students at Dal did--One class at a time, with 4-hour class periods...so I only had one subject to study for at a time. All of the course material was presented in a timely and understandable fashion, class sizes were small enough to get individual instructors.
I stopped studying. Entirely. And my marks were in the mid to high 90s, effortlessly--just from a change of system.
Don't burn yourself out in college--it's not worth it. As long as you graduate, it doesn't matter if you're top of the class or barely scraped by. Even if you're hot **** in college, you'll discover (as I did, upon graduation) that hot **** in college is equivalent to pond scum in the job market. If you can get a workterm, get it--that'll do more for you in the eyes of employers than your diploma/degree. |
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Originally posted by HeartoftheTiger
Don't burn yourself out in college--it's not worth it. As long as you graduate, it doesn't matter if you're top of the class or barely scraped by. Even if you're hot **** in college, you'll discover (as I did, upon graduation) that hot **** in college is equivalent to pond scum in the job market. If you can get a workterm, get it--that'll do more for you in the eyes of employers than your diploma/degree.
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I definitely agree with you on this one. In fact, even valedictorians and those on the top 10% of the class can never be assured of immediate employment.
However there is also one important thing to consider - interest. This is probably the most determinative of your will to continue. So although you may not be good in one area of study, you may be well suited for another.
I read this in an assigned case in one of my subjects, and found it to be very noteworthy:
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While every person is entitled to aspire to be a doctor, he does not have a constitutional right to be a doctor. This is true of any other calling in which the public interest is involved; and the closer the link, the longer the bridge to one's ambition. The State has the responsibility to harness its human resources and to see to it that they are not dissipated or, no less worse, not used at all. These resources must be applied in a manner that will best promote the common good while also giving the individual a sense of satisfaction.
A person cannot insist on being a physician if he will be a menace to his patients. If one who wants to be a lawyer may prove better as a plumber, he should be so advised and adviced. Of course, he may not be forced to be a plumber, but on the other hand he may not force his entry into the bar. By the same token, a student who has demonstrated promise as a pianist cannot be shunted aside to take a course in nursing, however appropriate this career may be for others.
In the former, he may be a bungler or at least lackluster; in the latter, he is more likely to succeed and may even be outstanding. It is for the appropriate calling that he is entitled to quality education for the full harnessing of his potentials and the sharpening of his latent talents toward what may even be a brilliant future.
We cannot have a society of square pegs in round holes, of dentists who should never have left the farm and engineers who should have studied banking and teachers who could be better as merchants.
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Yeah, I'm not well suited to be a calculus guy, which is why I couldn't get my Bachelor of Computer Science from Dalhousie University. But I got my Computer Science diploma from CompuCollege in my sleep, because no matter how bad I am at Calculus, I'm a good programmer.
The problem with University is that you have to take so many non-field-related crap courses. If you can focus on what matters, anybody can do what they want to do. |
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this thead makes me wonder if people like me are in a minority, highschool student
while you all are griping cause you are not doing so well in colledge, im dont plan on going at all. i have always been told by people around me that im smart and my test scores ussually say the same, but the real truth is, is that i am 18 and a junior in high school, i flunked the second grade and i dont got enough credits to hope to graduate with the class of 04, i am not in algebra 1, most of the students in my class are sophomores, i am happy to make a nice row of "D"s on my report card and i plan on going straight into a job right after high school, my dream job is being a game reviewer but im not holding my breath, just preparing for manaul labor or somthing, i feel like a hypocrit every time i try to convince someone into not quiting high school, im finishing high school but thats it
school is whats wrong with my life, the social structure, my failing everything. well at east ill gradaute somtime, ill be like 20 though, most people are 18 when they graduate arent they? |
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