<p>it seemed like a lot of people on the "competitiveness" board said something along the lines of-I don't tell people my scores. How do you get the grade-askers off your back? I've tried the "I don't share grades" but people think I'm like obnoxious/snobby...any ideas?</p>
<p>Once I told my friends 'I got a grade', but they gave me so much crap about it I sort of stopped using that.</p>
<p>I just tell them, usually my friends and I aren't too competitive. Usually if one of them beats me they'll rub it in my face, but I don't mind much, it just gives me more motivation.</p>
<p>Just say "I don't want to tell". </p>
<p>I hate when they ask me what I get on tests, and every time, they irritate me about it. So now, I don't tell anyone.</p>
<p>dank08, dude, same here! I just love it when people get higher grades than me--good thing it doesn't happen much--and I enjoy it when they rub it in my face because, in the end, it is all better...for me.</p>
<p>when i get a good score (B or A) i tell them but if i get C or below i just act depressed but they dont really care</p>
<p>I tell them the truth.</p>
<p>If I got an A, and if someone asked, I'd tell them with a smile. Then they'd say Wow Congrats!
If I got a C, and if someone asked, I'd tell them with a frown. Then they'd say HOW? The marking schedule is crazy!! Our teacher is so crazy! (stuff like that to support me).
If I got an F, and if someone asked, I'd tell them with laughter (so low that it's funny). Then they'd laugh with me.</p>
<p>Not to be stuck up or anything but I'm generally liked among my peers so when I tell people my scores, I dont come off as pretentious or anything like that.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd like to point out this hypothetical situation.</p>
<p>You just took a midterm, and someone asks you, "How do you think you did?"</p>
<p>Now there are a variety of ways of responding to this question.</p>
<p>Let's say you think you did poorly.
You could say, "I think I did poorly."
Now, if you did do poorly, then well, there is little harm done, except for the fact that you just bombed a midterm, killing your GPA and any hope you had at getting into First Choice U.
Now, if you didn't do poorly, you are
1) surprised that your knew the material so well, or are thankful for that generous curve
2) look bad for claiming you did poorly, when you didn't. This makes other people who did do poorly feel bad, as they wish they could have gotten lucky like you, because you came out of the place feeling the same way as you, and it makes the people who did well not like you because you are just trying to hedge your dignity, saying you did bad, when you didn't. God don't you hate those people?</p>
<p>Or you could also claim you did well on the midterm. Now, one may have the reckless bravado to do this, out of peer pressure or for some other reason for the gains of being accepted. Unless, you get some terribly lucky type 2 error, you will most likely fall back to earth leaving your friends and family disappointing in you for
1) you inability to do well on a midterm
2) you inability to judge how well you did on a midterm</p>
<p>Now lets say you are a typical CCer, and you know you did well. Chances are there are others who did well in the class, and there are others who did not do well in the class. Now, you can either claim you did well, or claim you didn't do well. Either way, you lose. </p>
<p>If you claim you did well, and then your claims are justified when the grades are released, you come off as arrogant, and you make the people who did not do well feel bad, because it's not like the test was hard for everyone, it is just YOU got it and they did not, which makes YOU look better than them.</p>
<p>If you claim you did well, and then you claims are not justified when the grades are released, you have arrogance, and no reason to be arrogant. You are mocked by those who did well, and loathed by those who failed, because you thought you were better than those who did not do well, and your grade says otherwise. </p>
<p>So let's say you see these two options and you claim that you did poorly. What could happen?
Well, you could do poorly, much to your surprise, and then you do not look bad to your classmates, but you still have a grade that will prevent you from getting into that Ivy, and you have to explain it to your parents why you did so poorly. What's worse, is that you don't know how to improve, because you though that you did well.</p>
<p>Well then you could say you did poorly, but then your grade shows that you did well. This results in the same kind of kid the people who did good hate, and the people who did bad disdain. </p>
<p>Which would you do?</p>
<p>TALK IS CHEAP</p>
<p>I just say the truth, but not from an arrogant perspective. Just honestly saying what I have.</p>
<p>Haha. I'm guilty of the I-did-poorly syndrome a lot. I like it when I'm proven wrong, but that gets everyone (even my friends) on my back, which isn't so pleasant. </p>
<p>Honestly, it depends on the midterm. Most people in my French class would say that French is their easy subject, so it's not arrogant at all to say, "I think I did well on the French midterm." And that's what I'd probably say. (To say otherwise would be somewhat akin to fishing for compliments.) For most people in my class, it'd be difficult not to do well on the AP French midterm.</p>
<p>But if it's a midterm like AP Chem (ahem - the one I'm cramming for right now), most people will probably walk out thinking they failed or at least didn't do very well on. In which case saying "I think I bombed that" would be perfectly acceptable. And no one would hate you even if you ended up getting a good grade because of an awesome curve. </p>
<p>But for some midterms, you honestly don't know how well you did. Well, that's the case for me anyway. In which case, I'd honestly say, "I don't know whether I did well or not. In any case, I'd rather not think about it."</p>
<p>All right, back to cramming again.</p>
<p>You guys over analyze everything. If people get mad that you did well, then who cares they aren't good friends anyways. If they ask, and you tell them they shouldn't be *<strong><em>ed off that you think you did well on the test, they *</em></strong>ing asked. </p>
<p>I am a pretty blunt person, most of my friends know and respect that, so if they ask how I did and I ****ing nailed it I will say so.</p>
<p>I just say what my grade was. I have no problem with that.</p>
<p>ya i agree with umbrellas....my friends usually can tell with my facial expressions (especially in precalc)</p>
<p>"Take your grade and square it." :D</p>
<p>you can just say: "I did better than I expected" or "not very well..."
something like that. you don't have to give an exact answer.</p>
<p>I usually don't mind telling my scores and people don't mind telling me theirs. It's not that big of a deal to us...even if we bomb a test.</p>
<p>It was around what I usually get.</p>
<p>I say "I bombed it so I burned it with my zippo now **** off. i'm depressed."</p>
<p>"I got what I deserved. What did you get?"</p>
<p>I don't care, I usually have nothing to hide.
That said, kchen is one of the most secretive people on the forum, so she knows what she is talking about.</p>