<p>Do you do it?</p>
<p>Does it tend to stress you out? And are there good reasons for not disclosing it? (other than for not trusting people?) What if you do poorly?</p>
<p>Or do you find it to be a motivational factor?</p>
<p>Definately a motivational factor for me.</p>
<p>I know it's a personal choice, but it annoys me when people won't say what grade they got on a particular item. Random pet peeve.</p>
<p>I usually share grades among my friends, but it is a little annoying how grade crazy people are.</p>
<p>nice trick charredash07 that must have taken you years to master</p>
<p>you realize charred is probably kidding, don't you?</p>
<p>Unless someone asks, I don't do it. Not because my grades are good/bad, I just don't care. If someone wants to tell me their grade, than thats fine, if not, I'd rather not put anyone on the spot.</p>
<p>Here at my Ivy, everyone seems so put together all the time that I feel like everyone has a higher GPA than me - even when I know for a fact that I'm in the top third of my class. Very irrational, I know. I think I tend to hang out with a smarter crowd, where 3.8's aren't uncommon (in the crowd of people, not the student population), so my grades end up seeming poor.</p>
<p>For that reason, I usually end up bringing up grades so that people will talk about theirs, but I try not to explicitly ask people what they got. Most of the time, I feel better knowing that other students get B's and C's like I do.</p>
<p>I don't talk about my grades. If asked I usually say I did ok.</p>
<p>if people ask, i tell them my grade. I dont really care what the average joe scored, but I'm always interested in what my friends get (and even then, not even for the basis of competition, but just to see if they did well or not).</p>
<p>I almost always get the highest grade among everyone I know, so they usually just assume that I got a high grade and ask me what I got... so I tell them. But if no one asks, I'll never mention my grade, regardless of what I got.
I'll admit though, I'm much less inclined to share a low grade.</p>
<p>I never ask my friends what they got, because if they want me to know, they usually volunteer the information themselves.</p>
<p>Mmmmm...it depends on the people and the class. I was in a science for none majors class with my boyfriend and roomate, and all three of us shared grades because we are really close and didn't care much about the class--ie. the fact that one person go higher grades than the other didn't make the person with lower grades feel less intellegent, because it wasn't an area of great interest for any of us, and grades came down to who had studied the most.</p>
<p>But in other classes I tend not to share my grades unless asked.</p>
<p>I am much more inclined to show my low grades, in fact some people probably think I get <70 on every test that I get. If I do good I dont say anything, but its real fun to show off when you do bad.</p>
<p>I don't really tell anyone my grades, and I usually shy away when asked.</p>
<p>But when someone tells me? I compare myself and that motivation theory kicks in. =] Win win situation if you don't let it get to you negatively.</p>
<p>I'm not in college yet, but from what I've heard, it varies a lot based on campus culture (and person to person, obviously).</p>
<p>I agree that it all depends on campus culture. Discussing grades is a big no-no here. Competition and grade grubbing are pretty much non existant here. The answer to "how did that test/paper/etc. go" is always "pretty well" "okay" or "not so well." The only time I have ever discussed a specific grade with anyone was when we were all complaining about how hard our Spanish prof made one of our tests</p>
<p>I don't usually like to share grades. first, if you got like a pretty good scrore above others, i would not boast. second, ifyou are in a competitive school, your grade would be like a news to everyone and everyone will hate you for it. third, i wouldn't say anything about your grades unless someone asks you, in which case, you say it without too much....boasting....and yes, saying i did pretty good is always what i say.</p>
<p>competition is what drives my motivation, indeed. but i try not to get too tangled up in the gpa mess.</p>
<p>Hell no.</p>
<p>Self-improvement is my only motivation.</p>
<p>My friends and I exchange grades, GPAs, etc. all the time. This is especially true of guys I went to high school with...when we get together for the first time after a semester the question of what our GPA was usually comes up pretty quickly. Of the guys I attend college with, some are more willing to talk about them than others, but the majority does.</p>
<p>When we were in high school, we all used to compete with each other on just about everything. I think that's why we do it so much--it's habit.</p>
<p>i do it all the time (im in HS). And it gives my friends inferiority complexes</p>