Grade retention

Throughout this semester, I have had many challenges. From taking too many classes, along with working my very first job, to dropping two classes and barely passing the ones that I am still taking. Although the challenges did affect me and how my performance in English 102, that is not an excuse. I have been using my challenges as a crutch for too long. My mother always told me, "God comes first, then school and everything else will fall in line." I always heard her say it, but I never listened.…

have myself to blame. My weaknesses as a writer played a significant role during my struggle last semester, including procrastination, organization, and run on sentences. Although I have always had these weaknesses, I have usually received exemplary grades in writing because I have a natural ability for it and a wide-ranging vocabulary. This semester I will focus on how I can overcome my weaknesses, expand my vocabulary,…

According to the Child’s Defense fund website, the U.S Census Bureau claimed that in 2015, 43.1 million people were poor, and one in three were children. As this website stated, “about 20% of children were poor in 2015, compared to 12.4% of people ages 18-64 and 8.8% of people ages 65 and older” (childrensdefense.org). Poverty is when you have insufficient amount of income to obtain even the basic needs to survival, such as food and shelter, for you or your family. Children living in poverty…

As of this moment in time I do not know what I will do with these situations I am presented with. How I made my decision was very rational, but also impulsive,one day me and my friend were sitting at a diner and we started to discuss how my 11th grade year was going so I told him it was going very well and I…

by homework 10%, quizzes 10%, papers 25%, midterm 25% and final grade 30%. After all the information of the students was provided, the average in general was solved by using the Excel program. The Excel program solved everything, I just typed in the information that was provided and the equation for the program found the solution. It came to the conclusion, that the students final grade came out to be a 77% which gives us a letter grade of a C. Everything is done by Excel, but it is possible to…

are going to reestablish ourselves in the world market of education. There is a new concept regarding the grading system known as , Grades out and Badges in, and I believe it would be a sufficient change to assist the level of learning for our students and our rankings in the world education. Grades out and Badges in is the process of dropping traditional grades and grading systems and creating a new method to chart the progress of students and at the same time reward them for their efforts,…

Not the best but nor the worst. that was my family, my family always was there for me and all i need to do was get good grades. Even they never really asked me to get all A’s or all B’s. All they wanted was me not getting F’s and everything was fine till six grade . My world had changed for me the school i went for middle was a great middle school but there was one problem. I wasn't prepared for the big change in my life like that , it was really hard for me to switch from elementy with all my…

Scholar, taking all honors classes and being seen as the best of the best among the freshmen class. Through the new pressures and more difficult work, my experiences of high school became rather overwhelming to me, and I began to receive the lowest grades I had ever received. Although I was offered a tutor, I did not believe that I needed one since I never needed help in any time in my schoolings. Ever since grammar school, I was used to being the smartest person in the room and ecstatic to be…

The first failure was to have a good grade in 6th grade. I didn`t have a bad grade but I didn`t reach the goal I wanted. In Egypt 6th grade is important. My grade was 97% and I hoped to get a 98.5%. It was a good challenge to get in and work on it, I don`t count it as a big failure but I like to remember it that I didn`t succeed. The second failure was in 9th grade in Egypt. They call it 3 prep. I had a very good grade but I wanted much better than this. I count this as a failure because my…

actually learning it, they may copy the work of peers or look up the answers. “In a class with no grades, students never have a reason to cheat. There’s no punishment awaiting them, if something isn’t done.”(Brilliant or Insane) If there were no grades, students would ultimately have no reason to cheat or look up grades. Grades also rank kids and make them feel negative about themselves. In a no-grade system, students evaluate themselves on what they need to improve, rather than someone…