Always have had better 2nd Semester grades than first

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>The other day I looked at my grade history, and I always notice my grades at the end of the year are better than the grade at the beginning of the year. I'll give you examples of some grades that stand out to me.</p>

<p>Algebra 1-7th grade grades
1st Quarter-74
2nd Quarter-79
3rd Quarter-83
4th Quarter-86</p>

<p>World History 7th Grade Grades
1st Quarter-84
2nd Quarter-88
3rd Quarter-90
4th Quarter-95</p>

<p>Geometry 8th Grade Grades
1st Quarter:72
2nd Quarter:75
3rd Quarter:86
4th Quarter:88</p>

<p>US History 8th Grade Grades:
1st Quarter:77
2nd Quarter:74
3rd Quarter:81
4th Quarter:86</p>

<p>Algebra 2/Trig 9th Grade Grades
1st Semester:85
2nd Semester:96</p>

<p>World History Honors 9th Grade Grades
1st Semester:91
2nd Semester:95</p>

<p>Biology Honors 9th Grade Grades
1st Semester:84
2nd Semester:97</p>

<p>Spanish 1 9th Grade Grades
1st Semester:80
2nd Semester:88</p>

<p>Even my grades this year have shown improvement from the 6 week periods where they send your parents progress reports and determine athletic eligibility. (3 a semester, but they don't count for colleges to see)</p>

<p>My Grades for the first and second periods were
Chemistry:92 it is now 91 (slightly lower)
AP European History:92 but it is now 94
Spanish 2:93 but it is now 95
Pre Calc Honors:68 but it is now 76
Digital Photography:95 and is still 95
English 2 Honors:90 and is now 92</p>

<p>Does anybody else feel like they do significantly better in the 2nd semester or later grading periods (If your school goes by quarters or trimesters or whatever) than they do in the earlier parts of the year?</p>

<p>I also feel for the most part, I do better at a subject when it gets more advanced, you will notice that mostly with my History grades, and somewhat my Spanish grades.</p>

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<p>I guess it’s a matter of adjustment to the teachers’ expectations etc. This sometimes happens to me.</p>

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<p>I think that’s exactly what it is. My grades at the beginning of the first semester are always terrible, then I get them up to decent by the end of the semester, then I literally kill everything in the 2nd semester.</p>

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<p>No. In middle school, in all grades my, average would always increase. I the first 2 marking periods of 8th grade I had a 94 average for both. The last marking period (3) I got a 96.63 average. My cumulative average was 95.1. It’s funny because whatever cumulative average I end up with in one year, I start off from the same average for the next year an it always gets higher. I’m a freshman now and as I said I had a cumulative of 95 in 8th and I got a 95.4 average for my first semester/quarter. Weird, but I always seem to do best on the second and last marking periods.</p>

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<p>This always happens for me too, especially in courses heavy in writing. Every teacher has slightly different expectations/styles, and by the 2nd semester you usually know what to do to get the grades.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it usually happens for me but I wonder about this year as its my senior year</p>

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<p>omg that definitely does not happen to me. I usually start off the year with 98-100 and I have a 95 or 96 for second semester because I’m too lazy to actually do anything.</p>

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<p>it’s probably that you are getting used to the way the class works. You figured out what the teacher expects, etc. But I’m like the opposite - I start the year off with A+'s and then they drop drop drop</p>