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« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2010, 12:36:25 PM »

This one time I got an A- in AP Euro Sad but only for one term Smiley
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« Reply #26 on: July 16, 2010, 12:43:47 PM »

Goddamn, I'm surrounded by a bunch of overachievers.......my worst grade ever was a 69.85% in Income Taxation (teacher was kind enough to bump it up to a C) and my worst grade on a test was (wait for it) 28%.

GPA wise I think my last semester in college was the worst (2.5)

Go ahead and laugh your asses off at my expense.
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« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2010, 12:50:20 PM »

I almost didn't graduate HS because I failed the final semester of gym. Well, I bet I have a lower BMI than most of my classmates who passed that gym class now have. So I win, or something.  Oh yeah, we had a 200 question gym final. WTF?

Gym class was full of fail anyway........
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« Reply #28 on: July 16, 2010, 01:09:11 PM »

I really liked my system in high school.  It was quite clear cut:

90%+ was an A
80-89% was a B
70-79% was a C
60-69% was a D
59% and below was an F/no credit.

WIth the GPA, it's also pretty standard

3.5-4.0=A Average
2.5-3.4=B Average
1.5-2.4=C Average
0.5-1.4=D Average
>0.5=You're trying to fail and you can't even succeed at that.

So before everybody blabs on about their lowest scores... keep in mind that grading scales are hardly uniform.  So rather than just proudly boasting... explain the context of that score first.

Thank you.



I had a rather unusual grade scale at the high school I attended.

A = 95+
B+ = 90-94
B = 85-89
C+ = 80-84
C = 75-79
D = 70-74
E = 60-69
F = 59-

E and F were both failing grades, but with an E, you could try and make up the class during summer school, and have the E not show up on your record, whereas with an F, it stayed on the record even if you did summer school and passed the course then.

A = 6.0
B+ = 5.0
B = 4.0
C+ = 3.0
C = 2.0
D = 1.0
E and F = 0.0

There were three tracks, vocational, college-prep and an in-between track.  In-between courses got a 2.0 bonus to the GPA, college-prep courses got a 4.0 bonus and AP courses got a 6.0 bonus.  I ended up with a GPA of just under 10, and it would have been higher had I not taken band, as despite getting A's in it all four years, they only got me 8.0 for each course.

I would have been valedictorian if I'd only taken study hall instead of band. (I had 5½ more credits than I needed to graduate.)

Needless to say, I'm not fond of all the aspects of that system, but I do like that grade of E they had.
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« Reply #29 on: July 16, 2010, 01:41:59 PM »

and my worst grade on a test was (wait for it) 28%.

Not bad. My lowest was 13/62 on a calculus test last year; so 21%.
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« Reply #30 on: July 16, 2010, 01:53:17 PM »
« Edited: July 18, 2010, 12:17:58 PM by Assemblyman & Queen Mum Inks.LWC »

I got a D+ in Accounting once. By far my worst grade. I really don't "get" accounting, honestly. How can you have an entire academic area that's just memorizing a bunch of arbitrary rules? I cannot imagine being an accountant and not being a completely miserable person. Also, the teacher was the definition of ****--I remember asking her if I could turn in an assignment late for partial credit, and she said sure, but decided not to accept it after I spent hours on it.
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« Reply #31 on: July 16, 2010, 02:27:06 PM »

For GPA, the lowest one I got was a 3.25, I think. For grades, the lowest one I ever got was a regular C.
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« Reply #32 on: July 16, 2010, 02:43:13 PM »

I got a D+ in Accounting once. By far my worst grade. I really don't "get" accounting, honestly. How can you have an entire academic area that's just memorizing a bunch of arbitrary rules? I cannot imagine being an accountant and not being a completely miserable person. Also, the teacher was the definition of c**nt--I remember asking her if I could turn in an assignment late for partial credit, and she said sure, but decided not to accept it after I spent hours on it. c**nt. c**nt. c**nt.

I guess I'm a pretty miserable person.  I never really thought of it as "rules", just a bunch of mathematical equations and then organizing said results into different accounts, income tax returns etc. etc. etc.
I will have to say though Income Taxation class hurt me like a bitch, and I have to retake Corporate Taxation next year (dropped the class due to partying, laziness, etc. etc. etc.).  Accounting is one of those majors where, even if you're good at it (like moi) you have to study your ass off for it.
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« Reply #33 on: July 16, 2010, 02:53:26 PM »

I got a D+ in Accounting once. By far my worst grade. I really don't "get" accounting, honestly. How can you have an entire academic area that's just memorizing a bunch of arbitrary rules? I cannot imagine being an accountant and not being a completely miserable person.

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« Reply #34 on: July 16, 2010, 04:01:39 PM »

How can you have an entire academic area that's just memorizing a bunch of arbitrary rules?

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« Reply #35 on: July 17, 2010, 09:53:30 AM »

Not an avergae, but my stuffy, uptight sophomore English teacher expected a bunch of 15 year olds to read Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Being a good student, I actually tried to read the piece of crap, but could never get very far. I got a 47 on the test, and I couldn't have been the only one to fail miserably b/c she chewed the entire class out, even mentioning that the class did much worse on questions that weren't in the movie version. She was a really good teacher outside of that one incident. Hope she learned her lesson.
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« Reply #36 on: July 17, 2010, 11:31:12 AM »

Oh good lord children. 

Hm.  I guess I got a D once or twice.  Female teacher of course.
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« Reply #37 on: July 17, 2010, 07:19:39 PM »

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« Reply #38 on: July 17, 2010, 09:39:34 PM »

.273 my sophomore year.
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« Reply #39 on: July 17, 2010, 09:43:10 PM »

How can you have an entire academic area that's just memorizing a bunch of arbitrary rules?

That's school. Memorizing stupid bollocks so you can pass a stupid test that has no relevancy in real life.
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« Reply #40 on: July 17, 2010, 09:53:21 PM »

How can you have an entire academic area that's just memorizing a bunch of arbitrary rules?
That's school. Memorizing stupid bollocks so you can pass a stupid test that has no relevancy in real life.

That's bad school.
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« Reply #41 on: July 17, 2010, 09:56:12 PM »

How can you have an entire academic area that's just memorizing a bunch of arbitrary rules?
That's school. Memorizing stupid bollocks so you can pass a stupid test that has no relevancy in real life.

That's bad school.

Otherwise known as the NEA.
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« Reply #42 on: July 17, 2010, 10:03:29 PM »

In high school, I failed precalculus with probably 40-45%.  Before the final, I was at about 55%.  I skipped the final because I knew I would fail it.

In college, I failed ceramics because I failed to attend the final presentation of all my work in the quarter.  I also thought I would fail that course because I completed 3 projects out of 5, and I completed no journal.  The two I never started were also the largest projects.
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« Reply #43 on: July 18, 2010, 02:41:14 AM »

I got very close to failing Honors Algebra II. I managed to pull it up to a C, my lowest grade so far (hopefully it stays that way).

Lowest test grade was a 47, in the aforementioned class. It was what nearly caused me to fail.
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« Reply #44 on: July 18, 2010, 03:08:47 AM »

I almost didn't graduate HS because I failed the final semester of gym. Well, I bet I have a lower BMI than most of my classmates who passed that gym class now have. So I win, or something.  Oh yeah, we had a 200 question gym final. WTF?
You had gym all through high school?

I had 3 quarters of gym in all of high school and only 2 of them were required.

In the 70's MN required gym throughout HS. We could select from a number of different electives, but the teachers graded on performance more than effort. I wasn't very athletic at that time, so there went my HS GPA.
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« Reply #45 on: July 19, 2010, 02:45:53 PM »

I hit about .200 in 2005. That was my first year playing with the big kids.
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« Reply #46 on: July 19, 2010, 05:24:39 PM »

I hit about .200 in 2005. That was my first year playing with the big kids.

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« Reply #47 on: July 19, 2010, 06:13:45 PM »

I hit about .200 in 2005. That was my first year playing with the big kids.

what was your OBP and SLG?
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« Reply #48 on: July 19, 2010, 06:17:21 PM »

I hit about .200 in 2005. That was my first year playing with the big kids.

what was your OBP and SLG?

OBP was quite a bit higher. I think it might have been .400 or so. SLG was about the same. I don't think I got any extra-base hits that year. The 12-year-olds I was facing were hard to hit.
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« Reply #49 on: July 19, 2010, 06:23:53 PM »

I almost didn't graduate HS because I failed the final semester of gym. Well, I bet I have a lower BMI than most of my classmates who passed that gym class now have. So I win, or something.  Oh yeah, we had a 200 question gym final. WTF?
You had gym all through high school?

I had 3 quarters of gym in all of high school and only 2 of them were required.

In the 70's MN required gym throughout HS. We could select from a number of different electives, but the teachers graded on performance more than effort. I wasn't very athletic at that time, so there went my HS GPA.
Very strange. In high school, we had one semester of health and one of gym, though technicaly it was a year long class called lifetime wellness. The gym grade was exclusively a function of how consistently you changed into the school tshirt/gym shorts.
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