how much do school grades actually matter?

[Sakura]

im stressed and stressed and stressed over my school grades because i think im getting worse every time. i don't seem to understand anything and im nervous that grades are going to play a major role in my future...is there anything i needa noe that i don't yet?

[ikra]

baaaaah why would you worry about that... bill gates the most successful man in the world was a harvard drop out, einstein was poor at his early school years, and many other great scientists in the past did not even go to proper schools... so i wouldnt worry much about it, as long as you find something youre good at.. then thats what youll have to do

[Meijin]

Well, you could pay attention in class. Do the work. Follow rules. That's all I could say.

baaaaah why would you worry about that... bill gates the most successful man in the world was a harvard drop out

Oh yeah, a HARVARD dropout :P

[ikra]

seee.. not much to worry about lol

[stomponfrogs]

There's always more to know. Just relax and try harder, or try getting a tutor. Stressing won't help you at all. Even if you don't need to know the information later, you'll need the grades to get into college. I'm sure you'll be able to make it if you try hard enough! :thumbs

[Chamcham Trigger]

Depends on how rich your family is I guess. If you're poor, then you better get your grades up.

[ikra]

lol true the richer the better the poorer the more hard work... remember nobody gets to the top without hard work

[Sakura]

ya. thanks you guys. i have like 2 essays due soon and im still on naruto forum. haha. i guess sometimes it makes me feel better

[Meijin]

Depends on how rich your family is I guess. If you're poor, then you better get your grades up.

Haha. Nice one.

[Sakura]

:D wink wink. this is such a good place to be.

[martryn]

What school grades? What grade? If you're in high school or something and don't have close to top of the class grades then forget it. You can't get into any of the great schools anyway now without paying out the ass. If you have high ACT/SAT scores then you can do whatever you want in most public universitys.

If you're in college, then grades only matter if (A) you're going to grad school or (B) for your first job. And then again the grades aren't as important as things like personal accomplishments and research.

[Sakura]

ya im going to college soon

[Manji Yoshimitsu]

In the Netherlands grades are supossed to give a good view of what you're capable of... Not that they do, its more a reflection of what you wanna do, and even if you do it right, it now seems that it still isn't enough information for the university...

(at least, our University's are bitching about the high-school levell of education... :notrust)

[Sakura]

grades really seem like such a big deal. i don't know but thinking about it makes me nervous, and being nervous doesn't get me ANYWHERE

[ikra]

all i care about grades are attaining grades to pass or get a course at a university. Once you get a job, it is the experience that mostly counts

[earthshine]

the ACT is far more important to your futre than grades, it means more to colleges than straight A's. later in life, its your college grades that matter, not high school.

[BooYah]

relax...*hummm* *meditating*..lol don't worry as long as u get fair grades..but if u want really high grades i think u should really focus on ur studies..

[Uchiha_Sin]

Well, it depends on what you wanna do after school... they matter enough that you should try your best. :amuse

[ANBU Neko]

Grades personally don't matter to me as long as I know I'm doing my personal best, but of course that's a whole nother story to my parents. I'm really bad at science and stuff, but I'm really good when it comes to language (which is why my career is going to be teaching Japanese :P). My parents bitch me out if I have any C's; it really irritates me. That's really the best I can do in a math class :P

I wouldn't stress. As long as you're doing your very best there's not much more than you can do. Good luck :3

[diglossiablues]

They do not matter if you just want to work and breath until you quit breathing. If you want to go to college/graduate school and make decent income... they matter in the sense that the system uses them as markers of ability to fit within the system.

As far as intelligence? Not at all.

So... yes and no. It depends on your temperment, and what you want.

[Danny Lilithborne]

Even a degree is no guarantee of a good job in the future. If you want to succeed, you have to work hard at it with your own abilities. Get out of here and do your damn essay.

[diglossiablues]

Verily I have written many essays. Verily I have succeeded where I have wanted to. Verily... life and money happens otherwise.

[Sakura]

i just care about getting good grades and working hard so i can get into a good college and further on to work hard in college so ill have a good future. itz this whole one line thing that i have to follow but i can't really

[Muffin_]

I’m a stickler for school work, I only accept perfect or near perfect grades from myself. Applied in the real world? Well I suppose if you aspirate for high standards in school it will say something about your personality type and work ethic.

[Kabuto_o]

how much do school grades actually matter? Not much. It's more something people brag about, like what they never was good at well some of them are good but it's not something you should take so seriously. It's not a ticket to the great dream job. That's what I think.

[Deathinstinct]

When you're getting ready to graduate from college do you know what recruiters look at? Your experiences in the appropriate field (summer jobs, interships, parttime jobs), not your grades. So remember real world experience is far more important than your grades.

[Cthulhu-versailles]

-connections matter-
-if your rich or not matters-
-grades matter-

all these are relative and even lacking two having one can save you and let you live well in WESTERN/ GLOBAL/CITY LIFE.

In university.. depending on your program b-a is good enough.. for graduate school-getting in- B+ or better most likely. Then more bitch ass, stupid ass working and being a stupid ass, punk bitch TA. Till yoa got to write some gay ass, punk bitch paper, on whatever stupid ass, punk bitch subject ya picked.Forgot to mention when finishi graduate school getting a B in everything should be as bad as you do.In some occupations that are highly competitive though if ya don't have straight deuces down the middle your a piece of shit!

Example of connections: My mom is going to get me a job teaching english to people..(part time 45$-h) she gets this job for every cousin in the family.. in whatever they specialize. Ie my other cousin, tought math... because he was getting a degree in engenering. Why would I get this job.. (My grades would be good an all, they are .. I think:) ) however it is more or less because of the influence of my mother period. Not having connection simply means you start at the bottom. Or if your a genius in the middle!

Connection in most cases don't gurantee a job they simply give you a better shot- because of heavy backing-recommendations-assocaition- etc. Also connection can get you jobs, that your realy not fitted or train before hand to do.:laugh

Ahem in cases of family they do gurantee jobs though:P

^^^Sorry for pointless bragging... but I've already bragged to my friends to much...:amazed


In reality though Rural living/ country living/ and just not being some punk ass bitch in the city, and actually experiencing nature pwns all three... therefore none are important!:amazed

[neko-sennin]

I'm with my man Albert Einstein:

"Never let public school get in the way of your education."

In most subjects, I was as good as I had to be, I proved to myself that I understood the subject matter, otherwise I concentrated on what I wanted/needed to learn that was relavent to my own interests.

What kind of education you need, and how much, are entirely determined by where you're going and what you're trying to do. In the end, your ability to understand and play other people will be a bigger factor in whether or not you succeed in your goals, but in most fields there is a glass ceiling for incompetence.

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[PhearTehGrimace]

eh when you die, it won't matter if you got good grades or had a good job, aslong as you were an awesome person

[kakoishii]

I'm with my man Albert Einstein:

"Never let public school get in the way of your education."

In most subjects, I was as good as I had to be, I proved to myself that I understood the subject matter, otherwise I concentrated on what I wanted/needed to learn that was relavent to my own interests.

What kind of education you need, and how much, are entirely determined by where you're going and what you're trying to do. In the end, your ability to understand and play other people will be a bigger factor in whether or not you succeed in your goals, but in most fields there is a glass ceiling for incompetence.


What you said is what so many people in my class at my school fail to understand. If you don't know everything with 100% proficiency that does not make you dumb all that matters is that you're good at what you need for your future career you don't have to be good everything just the things that are relavant to what you become. Only to that extent do grades matter.

[kuromoku]

dude ,you should try concertrating on some thing you like . I am a language lover and i am trying realy good at it . you try that and see what happens and dont care about what other people think about you then you can upgrade your self . trust me :)

[rimpelcut]

you have to put things in perspective. later after exploring different interests you will have a direction you want to pursue, then you need to have certain diplomas from university or whatever. I don't about where you live but where I live you can always go to the university if you do a couple of years "catching up" education. maybe you won't need to go to university. The important thing is that you explore the world :thumbs
Also I would recommend looking at your homework criticaly and thinking to yourself "is there something I can learn from this?" maybe science to understand how in real life this and that would work. or how to speak with cute french guys. you have to think about how you could use the knowledge in the books in the different subjects/chapters. then you will automatically get interest in it and you will start to actually understand the teachings because you are not concerned about why you are learning but you are concerned with whats beeing told in the books.

[Zhongda]

*did not read the first post.. but responding to the title*

They define ones life..
my gpa is 3.02
Uni needs atleast a 3.05.. iam screwed :amuse
but iam re sitting som exams hoping i get better grades which will booste my gpa to 3.05 and over.

my friends all have low gpa's they only realised that theyr screwed after they graduted.
they all got real mad and jelouse when som of our class mates got into uni (by now theyr in their second year.)

Personally iam pissed cause my cousin (aka my rival) got into uni with a 3.1 gpa and iam still trying to get in.

[Leen]

School grades are important to u when u are from a poor or not so rich family like me. I am having a test now and I need to score all 13 subjects A1s so that I can get a scholarship. If u are rich, grades are not important since your parents can simply bribe the colleges or just send u to overseas or just let u inherit their companies.

Strictly speaking, grades are not important actually. What is important is how much u learn and how much u understand that is important. At the end of the day, grades will not be used in the real life. In life, the most important thing is your brain. If u can think critically, be creative, resourceful, u dont even have to worry about surviving because u will survive.

People nowadays are too obsessed with grades. I am one of them, but only because I need the scholarship. I have friends who can actually memorize almost everything from the text book and score high marks in tests everytime but once u ask him/her general questions such as war in Iraq, who's the president of Russia ...etc, u can see his/her face turn all red because he/she never learn these things when these are the things that we get to see everyday.

Lots of fresh graduates come out only to find themselves searching and searching for job here and there but got rejected. Why?? Because they dont have the right mindset and critical thinking. In life, we dont need a dictionary or encyclopedia. We need someone who can accustom and get used to surroundings easily. We need people who can think beyond the normal thinking and come out with fresh ideas, not some book-nerds who only know everything that's inside the book but knows nothing outside the book.

My advice to u. If u are poor, get good grades. Once u are in uni, forget about the grades. Concentrate on your brain. If u are rich, I dont care whether u want to study or not because after all, u will still have a large fortune with u without having to work.

[Key]

it helps you to get into college(good ones) and get schollar ships.

[darklinnah]

You just have to get connections and you're in the job. That's what my parents always say. Nevertheless, I keep my grades high.


*Party > School grades.*

[vj01]

school grades dont really matter, grades are a way of the school to tell your parents how smart you are but if u know that you are samtter then that, this means that grades dont matter at all

[chunks]

Sorry, but grades DO matter. "Effort" is crap if it doesn't show up in the grade. In high school, not so much, but any bad grades in college/univserity will come back and bite you in the ass. Getting good grades will make life that much easier in the future. It'll ensure that you have as many opportunities open to you. Grades get you through the hardest step of getting noticed above all the other hordes of graduates, and then you can dazzle them with whatever other skills you have and move up the ladder.

[hesd]

If you want to increase your social mobility or augment your opportunity structure, then try to better your grades. Do otherwise, or let alone the status quo, if you're already content. Yeah, but it seems you're worried. So you have a preconception that grades do matter. Yes, of course they do. It's an institutionalized mechanism, a standardized photo of yourself and wherever you go, you'll be judged according to that same transcript of grades--your academic performance made tangible.
Also, don't think wishfully that you'll be among the isolated cases of drop-outs-now-billionaires. They're just a few. Better acquire your own competitive edge. Increase your market value through grades.
You live in a very competitive country where individual capacity is given undue importance. Work harder for you to not lag behind. More power to you!

BTW, I am a junior (3rd year college). You?

[Sakura]

thanks hesd for the support. i think thatz the main thing that i should stick to. my academic performance is improving now becuz i take more time to review my work and study for major tests

[hesd]

Okay. My PM box is always open. But don't overdo studying. I myself study only when I feel like it. umm..but that's my style. Develop your own. You know yourself better than all of the NF people combined.

[bronzhawk]

Yes grades are extremely important, esspecially for engineers. I know that 3M and other companies won't hire Engineers with GPAs less than 3.0 - 3.5 (on the 4 point scale).

[Kasumi 霞]

Grades matter quite a lot in my family... ah but I believe it's more of what you know than how much others think you know.