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I was wondering why my grades are going down(i used to be a straight a student)....i think its because video games. have you guys had the same thing happen to u guys. Of course i stay up to beat a part of a game but i always stay up late and my grades have gone to As to A,B, and Cs. and by the way i dont do drugs.
Are you sure?Quote:
Originally Posted by (CECIL120X
lol iz thiz a game?
Assuming you are in fact serious about this, then no, I've never had grades sufer from playing games. But then I've always known how to balance school and games, and have the good sense to put schoolwork first.
This is retarded. It's about time management, you moron. If you play games instead of study, then of course your grades are going to suffer as a result. If you watch TV rather than study, if you listen to Opera rather than study. THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN.
We've had this stupid discussion so many times, it's not even funny any more.
Way to make that sound kind.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Quan
Still, it's not cool to call someone a moron for it. Lose the 'tude. Although you got it right. Stop spending so much time playing video games, and study. Do you do your homework really fast to get it over with, and so you can keep playing video games? Take more time with your work.
Also, I think this is more of a General Chat kinda thread. ;)
And use the warn button for once, come on.
hmmmm.... it isdefantly a time managment issue. I'm one to talk as I've had plenty of those issues, but last semester I got my act together, straight B+'s :D!
My grades range from A* to Cs. Basically, I would just get enough sleep and set aside a sacred time each evening for homework in which you will play no computer games if you have any work that needs doing.
I've played video games all my life, so I can't actually be sure if my grades suffered from it. Then again, I've also been a straight A student all my life. I guess if I hadn't spent all that time playing video games and had studied instead I could have graduated higher than 4th in my class. But which would have been more fun?
Maybe it's because at 14 exams start getting harder
Why do you go to school at the end of June?
While playing too many video games instead of studying will lower grades often, classes also get harder the further along you progress.
Hmm. I get straight A's, and I play video games and spend time here and other stuff. Heck, I never study. But...Maybe get more sleep. I really can't think of anything. :/
My grades were never up to go down ^_^
It's because the teacher doesn't like you. My grades always varied from teacher to teacher.
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Originally Posted by Squishy
I find this to be the largest determinate for my grades.
Your grades are going down because you're getting progressively more stupid.
I've played videogames since I was 4.
My average has stayed at around 80% for my whole school career.
Post here more and grades will go soaring high. :)
You should pig out on veggies. And peanuts. Peanuts are brain food right?
Stop posting.Quote:
Originally Posted by (CECIL120X
study more, pay attention in class, get more sleep.
lol @ people who take school seriously
lol @ people who are ignorant
lol @ people that say lol
This doesn't really work pre-university, but if you go to class and take notes you're pretty much guaranteed at least a "B". That's my experience.
It all depends on your MOTIVATION and your WILL, it MOSTLY depends on your WILL.
I find it kinda funny. the FALL semester....is the one where I get the OK grades...........while the spring semester is the one where I get the As and Bs..........but it was the other way around this school year..............weird I say.
It also depends ALOT on how many classes you're taking every semester.
>>> Bad grades are part of the joy of playing videogames..
I play video games/watch tv all the time and I never study, and I make all As/Bs.
Maybe I'm just lucky.
I'm pretty certain that until you do GCSEs (or whatever you do in America at 16) most grades before that don't mean a lot. I'm sure an A at 11 is very different to an A at 16. When I was 11 I was getting As and Bs, but at 16 I got Bs and Cs. Did I get more stupid? no (well I hope not) Things just get harder. Some people have the intelligence to do it, some don't.
If you wanna go to uni get off your bum and start studying, or at least stop moaning about the lower grades and do something about it
*nods*
It really depends on you as a person, not always what you do in your spare time affects your grades. It does however, if you spend all your time on this and do no revision.
My grades are going down too. Ah well ^_^
Cause your here. lol.Quote:
Why are my grades going down
Yeah my GCSEs suffered because I played computer games till 11pm and I was more bothered about getting them finished then essasys and such. Its still happens today, but I made it to uni somehow!
Leave being smart to the smert people! If you want to work hard and be smart, you will forgo video games and do just that. You only have so much time, so choose whether you want to be smart or have fun, or half-way of both. Worrying about being good at everything you do is just going to make you suck :)
bip
My grades went down primarily because I learned that I happen to be smart enough to get ahead in life without putting in too much effort. Thusly I am now going on to do a most righteous course without straining myself whatsoever over the past few years.
Ha, I don't have to worry about school grades anymore. Yay!
Alot of people have already said what you wanted to know, but I guess I'll stick in my 2 cents.
You said that you stay up late playing games, that could be a problem. Is it because you can't find a save point? Or is it because your just having too much fun playing the game? No matter the answer, you can't loose sleep over a video game. Getting plenty of rest is an important part of doing well academicly. If you loose sleep, your performance may drop exceedingly in school.
Although, people getting grades lower as their classes increase in difficulty isn't unheard of, of course.
Always remember not to loose sleep over a video game, it will be their tommorow, right?
Nah, my grades fall to sheer abject laziness.
School is highly unneccasary. smurf grades take my approach and do whatever the smurf you want.:cool:
Until university ive never studied or done any real homework, and i played video games form when i got home from school until i went to bed, and i graduated with an 87% average, in the top 5% of my grad class, and eve in university i dont sutdy or do homework to much, at all really i only do essays, and i only study if its a class i dont go to, like Psychology, i managed a 70%, minusing English and Chemistry, Chemistry i withdrw from, so I got a W, and I bombed english =), even with those two i still had an average in the 60's. So no, video games have nothing to do with it. At least in my case.
I'm currently 17 years old (my birthday was today 26th June) and I think grades depend a lot on how good you are in TAKING tests rather than the material that is asked on the test.
All last exams are in Belgium taken orally (except a few like math,etc...), and my grades skyrocketed in almost all subjects: latin: from the usual 60% => 76%, french: 55% => 72%, english: 78% => 82%, but of course not all goes up: dutch: 64% => 55%.
My total average went up by a good 7% to a final total of 73% in this year .
But you have to keep studying :D
Your classes are easy then......Quote:
Originally Posted by Jebus
Recently as I've started playing games less and less, my grades have gone down.
Go figure.
My grades have gone way down this year 'cause I don't care. Actually, they've only gone down in subjects I've always hated. So who cares? I could get a D in Physics and honestly be happy with it next year. xD
Any exams I've done this year have meant nothing (which is partly the reason that I did crap in a few of them)... apart from the three GCSEs. Oh, piss, I really should have revised.
Sleep, pay attention, revise/study, etc. Or give up and accept that you're a failure. :p
problem found :DQuote:
Originally Posted by (CECIL120X
I never studied in my life (mabey once or twice), played video games every day and as long as I desire, and procrastinate until the last day, but I still have a 3.9 to 4.0 out of 4.0 GPA.
You're grades are going down because you're making a topic asking why your grades are going down.
That should be a very rhetorical question. =[ No.. You need to learn time management. Speed work, and if you had A's then you shouldn't have been playing games anyway. But if you had C's or B's. then do half the work and play your video games. Or do all the work and stay up all night. No one needs to listen to lecturing. That's why everyone sleeps in class, silly child. :D
so drugs are good for you or notQuote:
Originally Posted by Pureghetto
my grades have been going down because I'm studying difficult material in college, I work my arse off and still struggle sometimes. GOD, engineering is no fun... sigh
but it is also very true about how good you are at taking tests. Because I've always sucked at taking tests. I've literally taught my friends entire subjects and they do better than me on tests, even though I understood the material far better. Sometimes life just sucks like that.
THE JACKEL
I guess I have hard teachers.
My grades have been going dow, but I know that games are not responsible. It starts to happen when there is no fun to put into the work tank.
I've been getting not so great grades lately, and it's only 'cause I don't study or do my homework regularly.
Everyone thinks that if you don't have homework for a class for a month, you don't have to worry about it for that month... but the truth is, you should be reviewing it at least every other day until it becomes a part of you.
When exam day comes, you're like, "this is smurfing bull[img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img]" and you're done in no time. While I know this, I still procrasinate... a lot.
Also, grades really depend on if you are nice in class, you hand in every single assignment and all that jazz. You can be a dumbsmurf and still pass with good grades.
Stop playing videogames during the school week and make a spacific time where you start your homework. That should help.
Also my teacher told us that each time you get into the next grade you need to put in more effort. For example in the 6th grade you may get straight as then comes the 7th grade but you dont put in more effort in work so those As turn into Bs and im sure you get the point of what im sayin. Cuz if you dont then your just dumb and thats your problem all together.
ofcourse thats about all the advice i can give you follow this and you'll do great. But if your like me you'll be lazy and get straight Cs. Im lazy and thats my problem, actually this thread reminded me i have a book report due and i havent started the book like my mom thinks i have.
Same here. In 5th grade i was a straight A student, then when i got a PS2Quote:
Originally Posted by (CECIL120X
in 6th grade i was straight B's, then in 7th, all C's and D's. So i got my computer and PS2 taken away and i was straight A's again.
so i guess it depends on the person THE END
Grades have little to do with actual intelligence. EPILOGUE.
You're getting dumber.Quote:
Originally Posted by (CECIL120X
[leeza]No. This is not acceptable. Even in GC. ~ Leeza[/leeza]
old thread revival!
[leeza]This is a spam post that is absolutely not necessary. ~ Leeza[/leeza]
yes, this thread comes back once every two weeks,. Kill it plz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dignified Pauper
And kids, don't let Dig Paups tutor you. That was the originoal posters problem. He ended up failing at life, thanks alot DP. :cry:
Sarcasm maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGodYou're getting dumber.Quote:
Originally Posted by (CECIL120X
[leeza]No. This is not acceptable. Even in GC. ~ Leeza[/leeza]
I've never been an academic success, but I have my reasons that don't regard video games. Still, I got above average at GCSE, I think. It annoys me when people say they get straight As (yes, not A's) and can't even punctuate a sentence, let alone get the sentence structure correct or even the spelling.
Will you be my friend? I failed English in 11th grade but that doesn't mean that I don't comprehend it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaun
Sure! You should send me a PM, or if you use MSN Messenger add me there. It seems you only use AIM though.Quote:
Originally Posted by oddlerWill you be my friend? I failed English in 11th grade but that doesn't mean that I don't comprehend it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaun
I'm a straight A student and I never do work. One of the perks of sleeping with aaaaaall the teachers.
I couldn't agree moar. Sleeping is probably the best way to maintain grades because sleeping helps with your memory majorly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pure Quin14
I hardly ever did homework, mainly because we hardly had any and never turned it in if we did, other than chem, which was a pain.
That, and well, i'm an adept learner. If I could, I'd be a scholar, but that costs way too much.
why? is it because this thread been done beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by Arcee
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Originally Posted by (CECIL120Xwhy? is it because this thread been done beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by Arcee
:lol:
Say bye-bye to this Thread, Cecil! Da Padlocks will be comin' out very soon!
Why won't you let this poor thread die?