<p>Does anybody else have a person like this at there school? In my Pre Calc class a girl in my class always says she thinks she got like a D or an F on the tests then she ends up get the highest grade in the class. Does anybody else have people like this at their school, and find it super annoying?</p>
<p>This accurately describes about 70% of the people I know. Kinda have to admit that I fall into this category as well. :/</p>
<p>I’m like this. I mean, after a test I always think I did badly (but I don’t tell anyone about it, and I haven’t gotten an A on a test all semester, so I dunno what I’m talking about anyway). It’s because I have this superstitious belief that thinking “I did well” will somehow make the grade lower because the universe is out to crush my dreams. </p>
<p>This was me freshman and sophomores years. Now (I’m a junior) I like to put tests out of my mind once I’ve already taken them - no use in spending time worrying about what’s already done.</p>
<p>It is super annoying. The same people in my school who do this also when your ask them what they got say this
“Oh, I did okay”. Every time whether it is an easy quiz or a hard test. Also, in one of my classes, this girl is so uptight about her grades that when the teacher hands out grades, she snatches out of the teacher’s hand. One time the teacher just looked at her with this awkward glance because she snatched with so much force</p>
<p>This is me. I know it’s bothersome, but understand that even though I know it’s not likely that I failed, I feel so incredibly anxious and occasionally physically sick. I calmed down a bit freshman year, but with college approaching I get the feeling more often, even when I’m on vacation.</p>
<p>Lol. I can be like that sometimes and I can understand how we are annoying (although I don’t announce it to the world only to my close friends). Especially in math class, I find that when I think I did well, I didn’t and when I think I did horrible I get an A. It’s really weird. Even last week I could’ve sworn I mixed up the shell, disk, and washer equations(because the about the x and y axis confuses me) but I got an A. I don’t even know how. But all this complaining and worry just comes from our fear of failure so you should be glad that you don’t feel the need to show your fear of failure to others. Yay. </p>
<p>“The same people in my school who do this also when your ask them what they got say this
“Oh, I did okay”.”</p>
<p>Ever occur to you that perhaps they’d rather not say and maybe you should stop asking all the time? If they are always getting the top grade maybe they feel it would be rude to rub that in everyone’s face. How is this annoying to you? Would you honestly feel better if they said, “Well, really I got a 95, but since everyone else did so poorly, after the teacher curved it, I got a 108%”</p>
<p>This is me… People ask me “How do you think you did?” and of course, I say I did badly sometimes. It’s not my fault that I thought I did badly and actually got a good grade. What I noticed is when I ask other people, “Do you think the test was hard?” before I take it, and they always say, “Oh yeah, easy peasy.” And they end of getting a B or C or F When I go and take it, if I struggle on 2 or more questions, I say its hard and I did bad. </p>
<p>I understand your point @mathyone. But the problem is they always ask you what you get but they never respond when you ask them back. It does’t matter what you get, the highest grade or the lowest. </p>
<p>Well, just say “I did fine”. </p>
<p>I’ve noticed the people like those you just described are ones that study a lot, but aren’t necessarily smart (by traditional means). </p>
<p>Whenever I think I did bad, I do good.
Whenever I think I did good, I do bad.</p>
<p>Based on that, which mindset do you think I would have?</p>
<p>I feel like this describes most people who start those chance threads…</p>
<p>We just do that because keeping our grades high is important to us. If we didn’t care about our grades, sure, we wouldn’t care if we failed. But if we feel like we didn’t do well on the test, that’s a bad thing for us and so we’re going to talk about it. :-/ </p>
<p>If someone asked me how I did on a test I’d never say: amazing. I think I will get an A.
I just don’t know what I am supposed to say. If I freak out, people will be like: you will get an A anyway. If I am confident, people will judge me as conceited. </p>
<p>So I prefer to not talk about it at all. </p>
<p>@Yakisoba I definitely agree with you, that ALWAYS happens to me!</p>
<p>When I think I did okay, my performance is just that - average. When I think it’s easy or that I did well, I sometimes falter, and I’m sometimes right. Vice versa for quizzes and tests I don’t think I did well on.</p>
<p>Well the girl in my math class will start crying in the middle of tests if she comes across a problem she can’t figure out how to start, she has only had one test the entire year that was not that great (C+). But she thought she got like an F- after she took the test.</p>
<p>I’m like this cause I’m afraid of making the other person jealous of me. I just try to hide my test in my binder once I get it…</p>