<p>HUGE problem. I would really appreciate it if anyone could please help me out. PLEASE. I will love you forever.
Okay. So I'm in grade ten this year and I'm taking grade 11 advanced math (functions).
Report card marks are due this weekend, and all of our assessments are in.
I have:
87 on one quiz, not sure what on another quiz but it's probably pretty bad too, and 63 on two tests. :( :( :( :( I don't know how this happened.
At first I understood NOTHING but I went to my teacher and asked for help and everything.
All of my homework was fine but the test was so insanely hard. Stuff I'd never seen before.
And now I've failed math. </p>
<p>BUT:
1) I came from a different school last year and didn't learn some stuff that they already learned. I thought I overcame that, though.
2) I'm a year younger than everyone... so maybe it won't look that bad.</p>
<p>I can't believe this. :( My life is so over. My parents are going to hate me for this. They have expectations from me.
I've just let them down. :( I wish I could talk to God and just ask Him what I've done wrong and how I can fix this.</p>
<p>My dream for myself is to go to a top-tier university (hopefully an Ivy) and become a doctor of some sort (hopefully a specialist). Now I don't think that's possible anymore. :(
It's only first semester and I still have two more to go, but I recently found out that universities see your marks PER SEMESTER and not just the end of the year.
SO. I was thinking I could just redo the class in summer school.
But... would that look even worse? Would the universities KNOW that I went to summer school?
Would it at least count for something that I knew I could improve so I redid the course?
But my dream of an Ivy is dead now, isn't it? :/ I'm really disappointed, I don't know how I'm going to forgive myself.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?! HOW DO I FIX THIS MESS? :(</p>
<p>One bad grade in a quarter probably won’t do much. Just fix it, you have 3 more quarters, colleges like to see improvement every year, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the same goes for quarter/semester grades. </p>
<p>Don’t sweat it bud, keep working hard and it will all sort itself out. :)</p>
<p>I’m so sorry this happened:( As an aspiring doctor myself I know how devastating that would be, but you can improve. It’s not the end of the semester/year, so you have time to pull it up to at least a C or a B. Going to an Ivy might be out of the question now, but you don’t HAVE to go to an Ivy to be a successful doctor. My best advice to you is to from now on take classes that are challenging but you can still manage at least a B in, and maybe ask someone who took the classes you didn’t when you were at your other school to help out.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. I just can’t believe this happened. I’m not going to make it to an Ivy now, no matter what?
Everyone expected so much from me, and I just threw it all away.
This is just great…</p>
<p>Your life isn’t over. One bad term can be easily fixed if you do well the other few. I’m applying to several Ivy Leagues with a B in APUSH. Granted, I didn’t fail the first quarter, but even if you did, most high school transcripts won’t actually show that. Just try to pull your grades up by the end of the year, and the colleges will just think you had a bad year. It’s okay.</p>
<p>Hey now, I didn’t say there was NO chance of you getting into an Ivy, I just meant that it’s probably less. You should try really hard because anything is possible and no college is ever gonna see what you made in the first quarter anyways. I think anyone is capable of achieving what they want as long as they set their mind to it. But don’t get too hopped up over an Ivy league… they turn down thousands of extremely bright students every year</p>
<p>The GC said that I can go to summer school and upgrade my mark if I really need to, but she also said that I probably won’t need to. I understood the material and everything, but the tests somehow destroyed me. D: Report card marks are in and my parents don’t know anything about this… but they’re still so focused on going to parent-teacher interviews. I’m going to get KILLED. They’re going to be so disappointed… and my teacher probably won’t be any help in getting them to go easy on me. New dilemma. D:
Is there any chance that I can have above a 90 in this class by the end? If I don’t screw up on the tests for no reason this time? D:</p>
<p>Don’t even worry about it. Grades aren’t the one deciding factor in an Ivy League decision–any college decision, really. One B is not going to hurt your chances. [I should know. I lost my straight-A status last year and bounced back. That, or I’m in severe denial. :P] If you’re strong with extracurriculars and/or test scores, a single B is not going to hurt you that much. Don’t beat yourself up over it; psychological studies have been done and you will do badly if you force yourself to think you’re doing badly. You can explain the bad grade on the Additional Information part of your application, if you really want to.</p>
<p>Also, can I just take a moment to disagree with the Ivy League hype? Yes, they are stellar schools. Lots of funding, obviously, and therefore have the resources to be amazing. But if you don’t attend an Ivy League school, I promise you, your life is not over. There are tons of stellar colleges out there, and they don’t have be involved in some archaic football federation. It really doesn’t matter what college you attend–it matters what attitude you take towards it, how you overcome challenges and approach learning. If you learn to take a deep breath now, put a smile on your face and start afresh, brushing off this minor setback and begin working towards a new goal with high hopes, it will greatly benefit you in all areas of life. And with that attitude, you’ll make an amazing doctor, regardless of what college you go to. Also, if you learn how to do this, it will definitely show in your application, [teacher recs, essay, your extracurriculars] and will boost your chances. Colleges don’t look for someone one-dimensional, who has perfect grades and a checked-off list of extracurriculars. They look for someone who has a dynamic attitude, who has learned how to overcome the soul-sucking place [okay, that was a bit dramatic] place called high school and find something fulfilling.</p>
<p>So don’t worry about what your grades show about you. It’s over, done with, and also, report card grades don’t go on the transcript. [At least, not where I live.] They average it out or something. You can’t control what happened. [Again, you can retake it if you really want to, so it’s not like it’s totally over and you’re dead.] But you can control what happens next; and if you believe you can, then I guarantee you you’ll pull it up.</p>
<p>What you need to do first is calm down. Second thing to do is take some anti-anxiety medicine. Third thing is to bring your grade up. One grade isn’t going to destroy your life. Stop being ridiculous and saying that you can’t become a doctor now.</p>
<p>ALSO, functions are easy-mode math. (I had to throw something in here.)</p>
<p>I ended up with a 67. This mark gets deleted, but it’s still cumulative. So it’s going to be with me for the rest of the year.
My GC and teacher said not to worry about it because it was a one-time fluke, and coming from a different school I had learned less than the kids here (advanced program).
So, I’m really worried. D: I know I can pick this up because I understand all the material, but now there’s NO room whatsoever for even stupid mistakes that I never notice.</p>
So if you were able to pull off a mid-high A, you’d get a B overall? That’s still a good grade.</p>
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I’m sure your parents won’t hate you.</p>
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I don’t claim to speak for the Almighty, but I’d think He would say something to the gist that there are more important things in life and squandering yours in overstressed worrying won’t do you or others any good.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, things aren’t that bad and you still have a ton of room for improvement. And never lose sight of other things that are more important.</p>
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I had another test today. It was so so so easy except the last question which is getting cut off anyway, but no one in the class had time to finish… I had to leave 1.5 questions blank, so… I really don’t want to fail. I know all of the material, but for some reason this year I get all nervous about tests and I bomb them. I already begged my teacher for extra work for marks, which he didn’t give me, but I’ll try again tomorrow, I guess. :/</p>
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