<p>genetics.....</p>
<p>getting the 100 is putting in the 210</p>
<p>I'm a freshman and probably one of the biggest screwoffs in school. People know I take nothing seriously. In the middle of lectures, I put a mask on my face and pretend to be Jason from Friday the Thirteenth. Yet, I maintain straight A's with a 4.50 GPA in all honors. My lowest A during my 3rd quarter was a 95% and the highest was around a 103%.
What I do is I fool around at school, then after school I spend a couple hours screwing around on the phone, on the computer, or occasionally out to eat. Then I get serious at early evening. I thoroughly do all the homework, seeing if I understand the stuff, then when I'm done I either work on longterm projects for a couple hours or I review the stuff I feel shaky on.</p>
<p>I'm personally extremely strong in math, but if you need the extra couple points there, see if there are any extra credit opportunities first of all and jump at it. If not, then before a test, be sure to rework practice problems on homework to make sure you're doing the stuff right. If you can do all of the stuff without much trouble, then you're set. If not, review then rework. I really don't know how to study math, though, I haven't done it in years, lol.</p>
<p>Well, in short, you can get some nice looking A's if you're willing to spend a couple hours making sure you know the given material and on those hours where you think you have nothing to do, crack open your books and review. In the end, the grades are worth it and you don't even have to be a book nerd to do it, either. You can go out with friends and have a social life, like me. Or you could even create a study group. That's a pretty entertaining way to study, in my opinion. Way better than individualism.</p>
<p>Why do you need to get high A's?</p>
<p>Low looking A's look just as good as high A's if your report card is in letters.
Colleges won't see if you got a 93 or a 99, unless your school does GPA by percentage.</p>
<p>That is your one problem to getting high A's.</p>
<p>You are worrying about the grade you will get...I find it easier to get high grades if I don't worry about the actual percentage, but just set a goal to make and if I don't make it... I try my best.
So instead of aiming for high A's, just aim for A's.
If you aim for high A's, don't worry about it too much... just do your best.</p>
<p>As for studying, there are certain classes that you are usually strong in, so don't focus as much in those classes and then you'll have better concentration for your other classes.
For instance, I'm particularly strong in Math. We usually have warm-ups at the beginning of class and I do those as fast as possible (i might make an error once in a while, but I fix it by checking with others before we turn it in)... after finishing, I just walk around the class either helping others do the problems or just relaxing and talking to classmates. I don't really pay attention when the material is taught because I can grasp it in a couple of seconds, so I get up and help others again...this way, I can focus in a class like Physics, which I'm not as strong in.</p>
<p>I find if you try to focus in all of your classes, you end up having mediocre concentration in everything and don't learn much.</p>
<p>If you need help grasping concepts, get a tutor.
Stupid mistakes on math means you still don't have full comprehension on the material.</p>
<p>do NOT take a B.. it will be the end of the world... freshmen year i didnt know, and i got a B in us history.. i had a 98 average all through the year but there was this "participation point" thing i didnt know about and i skipped like 20 times so it took away 150 points... and i was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo soooooooo ... im not kidding... soooooooooooooo mad/****ed/sad/angry/depressed/disappointed... i cried for 2 straight hours until i finally had to stop to breathe.</p>
<p>it was the only B i ever had and i still suffer because otherwise i would be ranked 1 but now im 3 since theres 2 people sharing 1 :'(</p>
<p>"Stupid mistakes on math means you still don't have full comprehension on the material."</p>
<p>How do you explain imperfect math SAT scores? Mistakes due to comprehension aren't stupid mistakes, they're just mistakes. Stupid mistakes are stupid, i.e. losing a negative sign somewhere, forgetting to copy the exponent of a variable, or confusing a two with a variable z.</p>
<p>I felt the same way, but I only felt anxious during math tests. I overcame this program by pacing myself and doing the test as quickly as I could so I answered all questiones and then reanswered questions. Time was my biggest factor and spending too much time on a certain problem.</p>
<p>r u serious xokandykyssesox?</p>
<p>im serious. i had a "no care" attitude cuz school was easy, i mean.. especially those "normal" classes that everybody has to take to graduate.. like APs and stuff are sort of challenging, but when ur in a class w/half the people struggling to graduate its not hard to get an A... except i had no idea about the participation point thing. i came to the class a week after school has started cuz thats when i just came back from vacation and when the teacher went over it i wasnt there. it was a BIG shock when i saw that B that day, i mean... totally unexpected. ever since that day, whenever somebody asked for my gpa, i was so ashamed.... ashamed that i was no longer "perfect". perfection has no room for Bs</p>
<p>wow xok.....
i see how the B was bad for you, but but chances are your year and semester grades will be A's based on what you said,</p>
<p>it will be ok, you can take a B and live with it. people are too absorbed in the letters. i used to think it was the end of the world until i found out the truth.</p>
<p>who cares what those people think about ur GPA?</p>
<p>its not about what other people think, its about what you think of yourself. getting your first B really sucks.</p>