From my experience any time I got a (relatively) poor mark it was usually because the teacher was utter balls.
Student Answers Greatest Hits - Page 11
Blogs > micronesia |
Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
From my experience any time I got a (relatively) poor mark it was usually because the teacher was utter balls. | ||
QuanticHawk
United States32009 Posts
On September 30 2011 13:16 micronesia wrote: This has not been my observation... as a student or as a teacher. This is partly due to the differences in the difficulty of getting a 4.0 in different schools, and party due to the differences in students. Maybe not a 4.0, but almost everything outside of math is memorization and basic effort, picking up the book instead of going to cliffnotes, etc. Kids have notoriously shitty work ethic. Severe learning disabilities and immigrants who do not know the language aside, anyone pulling below 3.5 is almost always lacking in the effort department. Math and some of the science courses that incorporate math are really the only thing where your brain is doing something other than regurgitating shit you had to read or memorize. It's not like you're doing real literary analysis in english, and the writing bar is so damn low that you have to be pretty lazy to fuck that up. obviously, this does not include AP, where teachers go out of their way to challenge you. But general and cp kid classes are not exactly challenging. | ||
saltywet
Hong Kong1316 Posts
On October 02 2011 02:51 Hawk wrote: Maybe not a 4.0, but almost everything outside of math is memorization and basic effort, picking up the book instead of going to cliffnotes, etc. Kids have notoriously shitty work ethic. Severe learning disabilities and immigrants who do not know the language aside, anyone pulling below 3.5 is almost always lacking in the effort department. Math and some of the science courses that incorporate math are really the only thing where your brain is doing something other than regurgitating shit you had to read or memorize. It's not like you're doing real literary analysis in english, and the writing bar is so damn low that you have to be pretty lazy to fuck that up. obviously, this does not include AP, where teachers go out of their way to challenge you. But general and cp kid classes are not exactly challenging. out of curiosity how much is 4.0 gpa in percent? i got around 81% overall average in high school and i was notorious for being one of the people who never did homework or pay attention in class | ||
KazeHydra
Japan2788 Posts
On October 02 2011 05:40 saltywet wrote: out of curiosity how much is 4.0 gpa in percent? i got around 81% overall average in high school and i was notorious for being one of the people who never did homework or pay attention in class Well there would be no real way to convert GPA perfectly to %. In the U.S., the grades A,B,C,D for each class are converted to 4,3,2,1, and then the average across your high school career is taken. So a 4.0 means all A's and could range from 90-100%. A 4.0 is considered "perfect" grades. A 81% would roughly be a 2.7, but it's a very poor comparison considering the nature of the education system here. | ||
Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
On October 02 2011 05:40 saltywet wrote: out of curiosity how much is 4.0 gpa in percent? i got around 81% overall average in high school and i was notorious for being one of the people who never did homework or pay attention in class Depends entirely on your education system. Under A-levels or IB, 81% could quite easily translate to 4.0. The US system uses comparatively high % boundaries for grades, balanced by how easy they are to achieve. | ||
thedeadhaji
39473 Posts
| ||
bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
That titanic one was pretty damn hilarious - ice cube :p | ||
alpskomleko
Slovenia950 Posts
On September 23 2011 18:48 SpoR wrote: evolution and natural selection Evolution is the process that things change and adapt with their environments over time. Natural selection is like a catalyst, survival of the fittest and have lots of babies. And selection works through selective pressure, so maybe the kid wasn't in the wrong after all! | ||
| ||