<p>So a couple of weeks ago I got my quiz results back in AP Calc, and I got a 56%! That was basically the first time I had ever gotten anything below the 88 range on any math test or quiz in my life. So rather feel bad about the aberration, I felt rather proud of it. I kind of liked the fact that I got it, and still managed to pull of a 96 for the semester and be the only kid to get a 100 on the semester exam. And it wasn't a hard quiz either, I had one of the lowest grades in the class.</p>
<p>I guess I thought it showed everyone that I can be dumb. No one thought I could do that bad without intentionally doing so since I had the highest grade in all my math classes until this year. And the sad part was when the teacher asked if we had any problems on the quiz I didn't even bother raising my hand because I knew exactly what I had done wrong on every single question. </p>
<p>Have any of the rest of you had any other normally discouraging moments that you were proud of?</p>
<p>I remember taking AP Calc last year and I did horribly during our first semester because it was a new subject matter for me. 2nd semester, it got much easier and studying became simpler. In the end, I got a 5 and my teacher changed my first semester grade to an A</p>
<p>Yeah. I failed a couple of quizzes in an honors discrete math class and had a 20% halfway through the quarter. The material was pretty boring, and I didn't bother to study. However, I had looked ahead in the book and saw that the chapters coming up were more interesting to me. So I aced the rest of the tests, did some extra credit, and brought my grade up to a B by the end.</p>
<p>I don't take calc, but I like your view. Some of my friends don't seem to understand that I can fail stuff, so if I showed them something I got below a B on, they'd basically gasp. Now, though, I keep my grades to myself.</p>
<p>I had a D+ in AP Calc in the beginning of second semester, and eventually brought it up to an A. For me, math is one of those subjects I just can't get anything below an A in (ugh, what awful sentence structure). And by "can't" I mean "really, really, really don't want to."</p>
<p>Ah. a few weeks ago i had a 95 in honors chem, but on my last two tests i got 84 and 85 and then i got a fricken 68 on a quiz, so i think its down..hopefully still above an 89.5 :D or else i'm screwed gpa-wise..oh yeah point of this...i was not proud at all, although i can imagine being so if it didnt like obliterate my average.</p>
<p>45% on the first quizz of AP Chem last year, first semester. The teacher gave the EXACT SAME quizz in the first week of the second semester of AP Chem, and I got a 40% the second time around. </p>
<p>I did manage to scrape out decent grades in that class and got a 4 on the AP.</p>
<p>I got a 65 in AP Enviro....my lowest grade before that, sadly, was a 67. Anyway I got a 94 in AP Econ and I was sorely disappointed with myself. Seriously that was the worst grade I got in AP Econ.</p>
<p>I used to never do anything in calc because the midterms and finals raise our grades to what we got on them. So throughout the quarter, I would be hovering in the 50s range and suddenly jump to 98% by the end of the quarter.</p>
<p>yea, last year I got a 68 on a world history essay, it wasn't that it was poorly written it was that I didn't answer the question. I still ended up with a 93 that quarter so I was thrilled. I thought the 68 would be the death of me.</p>
<p>Getting anything above a C on a math or (AP) chemistry test was always an accomplishment for me. I still wound up with As in the classes because the tests were designed specifically for no one to score well on. I'm probably but a minority on CC, lol.</p>