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Did you or do you have lopsided grades (like A's and F's)?
Yes--I got A's, D's and/or F's 39%  39%  [ 15 ]
No--I got mostly A's and/or B's 53%  53%  [ 20 ]
No--I got mostly C's 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
No--I got mostly D's and/or F's 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Not Sure / Don't Remember / Don't Care 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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07 Feb 2008, 9:35 pm

When I was in high school, half of my grades were A's and the other half were C's, D's and even an F. This is what I mean by "lopsided grades". I got A's in the subjects that related to my interests. I did poorly in the other subjects. I'm wondering if this is an aspie thing. So . . .

Do you or did you ever have lopsided grades?

If so, do you think it has anything to do with AS?



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07 Feb 2008, 10:35 pm

Yes. Even through college this was so.

It has a lot to do with AS. One of the factors is that when the subject doesnt interest you at all, you just cant seem to learn any of it unless its by brute, forced memorization or short term memory recall.

In all humanities and science classes my grades were always high.. in maths like algebra and calculus they were C's. But in physics and chemistry I would score higher than many others in the 'knows subject' but would get a lower score on the math application of it..because I would make lots of errors. In short, I understood the subject well and knew the formulas and why they worked..but doing the actual math sunk me.



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07 Feb 2008, 10:40 pm

I did well in all my high school classes. Lowest Grade C+ Biology but made it upon my performance the next academic year.


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07 Feb 2008, 10:41 pm

JerryHatake wrote:
I did well in all my high school classes. Lowest Grade C+ Biology but made it upon my performance the next academic year.


I mean A's and B's


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07 Feb 2008, 11:52 pm

I got C's, mainly because I wasn't interested or motivated enough to care (1st degree). When it became something to get a job with, however, I went up to a B average (2nd degree..;)



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08 Feb 2008, 5:29 am

The only time I've seriously failed a subject is when I didn't put any effort into it (and one momentous occasion when I managed to write there were twelve commandments in an RE exam - my only defence was that I'd just reread the silmarillion). I got Ds and Bs in my Alevels last year, but that's not too much of a difference really.

It probably is an aspie thing. If you don't put any effort into a lesson/you're not interested in it then you won't get a decent grade out of it. Some people are lucky because they're intelligent enough not to put any effort in, but otherwise there will be a deffinate difference.


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09 Feb 2008, 4:15 am

When I was at high school, I got an A in English and an F in math. Now THAT is lopsided heh.


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09 Feb 2008, 12:30 pm

Yeah, near-perfect in science, about an 80ish average in french, horrible in math (but only because I refuse to show work, I get all the answers right), pretty bad in english since I have such little creativity, another near-perfect in Technichal Drawing.



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09 Feb 2008, 2:52 pm

Made As and Bs here.


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09 Feb 2008, 4:24 pm

This past quarter was the worst report card I've ever gotten, I think; four As, one B, and two Cs. It's the most variation I've had because I've never gotten a D or E (my school system has Es instead of Fs), but not really "lopsided" I guess.



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09 Feb 2008, 4:32 pm

Brittany2907 wrote:
When I was at high school, I got an A in English and an F in math. Now THAT is lopsided heh.


I had the same problem. History and English i got As, but in math i did horribly. Very lopsided indeed.



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09 Feb 2008, 8:18 pm

Yeah, I'm great with History, Economics, and Sciences, but I have an awful time with math. And it isn't that I'm not trying as hard either, because I spend 3x as many hours on my calc classes than I do on anything else. I do all the reading and homework (which takes me a hell of a long time) and I study for exams, but when I actually sit to take an exam, the questions seem like they are nothing like what I had been studying for the last 3 days, and I have a hard time SEEING what I need to solve to answer the question. Also, I don't know about any of you guys, but I seem to have a much easier time with story problems. They seem to be much more tangible and make sense to me. When I'm just looking at numbers and variables, I have a hard time comprehending it. It just looks like gibberish to me.



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10 Feb 2008, 5:59 pm

My grades were typically strong in subjects I was interested in or felt the need to prove myself. In subjects I wasn't interested in or the teacher was less than approachable, my grade suffered. It'd be relatively easy to look at my report cards and tell me what classes & teachers I enjoyed.



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10 Feb 2008, 8:18 pm

I got straight A's and one D in geometry last year when I was a freshman. But I didn't understand why proofs were so important or the point of them so I didn't do them.



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11 Feb 2008, 8:25 pm

In high school, I got almost all As and Bs. But I just finished my first semester of college. Half of the grades were As; the other half were Cs (barely). There are just some subjects, mostly ones with math involved, where I can't seem to win. As long as I don't flunk out of school I'm fine with it.


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12 Feb 2008, 3:07 pm

What's odd is math should be my best subject, but right now it's my worst. Mainly because I'm terible at geometry and not so great at trig. I'm amazing when it comes to numbers and formulas, but once it gets into pure theory and/or having to visualize things, I can't do it