Missing Days & Keeping Grades Good by Amanda
Amandaof Ketchum's entry into Varsity Tutor's March 2017 scholarship contest
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Missing Days & Keeping Grades Good by Amanda - March 2017 Scholarship Essay
If I could give a speech to a school-wide audience, the speech will consist of how to pass school with good grades in high school while missing a ton of days. Personally I have missed quite a few days and kept my grades above average. I have missed the maximum amount of days every semester and have an accumulative grade point average of 3.88 in high school and 4.0 in college.
Keeping grades above average in high school can easily amount to a gigantic challenge. Many high school students feel more pressured to join clubs, organizations and sports to help them get into or pay for college. Adding all of these extracurricular activities to their schedule can leave them with little time to complete their homework. Even though getting all of this done amounts to a difficult task, a lot of high school graduates have proved that high school students can get their work done and obtain good grades while in extra activities.
Without a doubt keeping grades in high school hard, but missing days too makes this whole another story. Missing days puts the student behind by missing important information, and gives the teacher more work to do. Many students flub through their make up work. Thus leaving the student not knowing what went on in the classroom and leading to more problems keeping grades up. When the student puts in time to figure out the information taught in the lessons missed, on their own or with the teacher’s aid, the student can follow along with the following lessons and not have a hole in their educational foundation.
Keeping grades at a passing or above passing level continues to mount a challenge to almost all high school students. In most cases of kids with a ton of days missed amounts to bad grades. High schoolers biggest problems with keeping grades good materializes in procrastination and the students putting little to no effort in attempting to learn what went on.