Ever felt awful for getting a bad grade???

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I am taking sociology a course I thought from reading the textbook and online parts that I understood fairly well. It is an online course so open book but still I only got 60/100 a D!! ! In a course I thought I knew!! I am just stunned a D!! !! !

i got a D in penmanship in 5th grade. i cried the whole way home from school.

Oh, yes. I was a very good student, so the first time I got a bad grade I almost fainted. My heart started pumping ready hard, my hands got cold, I was like in shock. I think I had a panic attack or something. A schoolmate just started crying in the middle of the classroom.

I always feel bad whenever I get a bad grade. Last week, there was a homework assignment that I didn't know was due, and I was under strict time constraints to finish it. My dad was waiting for me outside, and I just didn't have time to finish it, so I just told my professor to give me a failing grade. I felt awful about it during the car ride home.

I frequently hand things in late. At the moment I have a 10 page essay to do and it's already two days late. This means an automatic 20% penalty. I don't feel too bad about it as long as I put it off. When I sit back down to do it though it stresses me out. I have about 3 hours to get it done before I receive another 10% penalty. Wish me luck, kids.

I feel bad when I get a good grade but its usually because I know I don't deserve it but maybe I do.

Burn all evidence.

I think the scores might be different where I live. What do you need to get an A, B or C?

A = 100 to 90 points / 100
B = 89 to 80 points / 100
C = 79 to 70 points / 100
D = 69 to 60 points / 100
F = less than 60 points / 100

Good luck with your paper!

I rarely get bad grades, but I don't really obssess about them. Sometimes I obssess over whether I'm going to get a bad grade immediately after an exam, but regardless of whether it's good or bad, I don't really care once the results are out. After all, once the results have been determined it's impossible for me to do anything to change it, and it's inefficient to dwell on unchangeable things when I've many other things to do in the present that I can actually affect for the better.

Getting anything less than an 80 completely ruins my whole week.

I am quite obsessed with good grades. Usually anything less than a 90% disappoints me (and even a higher grade will disappoint me if I think I've done REALLY well). Anything lower than an 80% makes me absolutely miserable.

Grading in school has actually become kind of an AS specialist subject for me... but that has also helped me get better grades. Whereas in my early 20's I was unmotivated, didn't do a lot of assignments, and as a result got more B's and worse than A's, now I get mostly A's.

With my math skills, if I know how many points there will be total for the semester, I am capable of figuring out exactly what I am getting, the highest mathematically possible grade, and the lowest mathematically possible grade. Doing these kinds of calculations motivates me to do my assignments, since they're usually worth a significant chunk of what I can miss and get an A.
If I don't know exactly how many points there are going to be, I approximate what percentage of each category of work (homework, quizzes, tests, etc.) is out and can figure all of the above from there. I even had a math professor for two semesters who did not post grades online, on the principle that those in this high a level of math class should be able to figure it themselves. This semester I've actually created an Excel spreadsheet where I can enter my scores and it will figure what I'm getting / range of mathematical possibility.

Here's what grades generally stand for to me:

A+ = Awesome
A = A job well done
A- = Acceptable
B+ = Bit low
B = Barely excusable
B- = Bummer
C+ = Crummy
C = Crap
C- = Christ, that's awful!
D+ = Damned horrible
D = Death
D- = Doomed to McDonald's
F = Failed all of life

Yes, pluses and minuses count in the GPA at my school.

I don't get any joy from high grades. Mostly because I feel like I should always be doing better.

When I found out about my GCE A level results I just took the result and walked off. Didn't really feel anything. With my results' level any normal human would have gone crazy and done the Macarena... which is probably a sign I'm not a normal human.

At least I know why now. But it felt weird to feel nothing about the results when seeing extreme reactions all around me. Even when their results weren't anywhere as extreme (either extremely good or extremely bad).

I used to get upset when I was still in school and university when I got bad grades, though eventually after more then one period of depression, anxiety etc I just decided that if I did my best and passed I would be satisfied, not that I thought like that all the time, but I permited myself to cut myself some slack if I had bad periods.

Of course I have never liked failing a course and I remember when I did fail one at university I did not eat for three days.