How were your grades in school?

My grades were mostly horrible from the time I was very young until I was finished with school. I disliked most of my teachers, lacked interest in most subjects, had friends who wanted to chat throughout the entire class-time, etc.

The few subjects I was interested in and/or had good teachers for were where I received the highest grades.

Fluctuated. I generally had easy A's up to my last year of jr. high, when I started openly expressing my lack of respect for teachers. I could not stand my Literature teacher, and being an accelerated class, anything under a B (I was failing) would force me down and I would've had to give up my foreign language class too. My foreign language teacher was not having that and fought to keep me in her class, and so I got put into a normal leveled Communication Arts class. It was horribly boring and I basically did nothing there.
I had a Physical Science teacher my freshman year of high school that I could not stand. I failed his class with a 50. The rest of my classes except English were stable, but I was saved in English because the teacher graded me with the intent of making me pass (she gave me A's on inadequate work).
Sophomore year was worse and I started failing English and History badly. If I had stayed in school, I would have been left back a year because I was only passing 2 classes. I had the same science teacher as the previous year and was failing that time with an average of 30. I remember that some of my classmates with whom I shared one class and another teacher with talked about me to the History teacher about how I had A's in the class we shared (Latin ), and that teacher was astonished that I could have that grade.
To top it off, that year I became daringly insubordinate and would talk back.

I still have a lot of unsettled feelings about my school years. Thinking back on it makes me livid. There were a lot of people that knew what I was capable of but no one batted an eyelash when they saw I was failing classes. I think I'm going to go write a letter to my favorite jr.high teacher now since she was the only one who ever cared

My grades started out very high when I was young, but I quickly became bored and disinterested in school and stopped putting in more than the minimum effort. The classes were so easy that I still usually did pretty well, though, and my standardized test scores were high enough to get me scholarships that paid for me to go to a state university.

1 being the lowest (fail), 5 being the highest grade:
elementary school - pretty much 5, last two grades lower average, but still 5
high school - first semester of first year - 3.47 (basically 3), then I gave up on putting any effort into studying, so my average dropped down to 2.53 (STILL 3) at the last semester ever.
college - somewhere between 2.5-3.5, I don't really pay attention

Germany -> 1 (best) -> 6 (fail)

I was actually a "good" student in school.
Lots of 1-2's in my favorite subjects like German, History, English and Art.
And lots of 5-6's to Math and Physics. Eww. ;_;

Now I'm trying to make better results when I'm studying at home. I hated to listen to my teachers so maybe it was a reason for my bad grades in Math.
But I'm more the visual type. I like to collect informations with my eyes so by reading I understand a lot better. Got recently even a 2+ for Math. Yeah!

I dropped out off school by the time I was 13. But before then in primary school I was always an average student. I think the older I got the less interested I was in studying and getting good marks, because it wasn't 'cool' for boys to be smart, and in the last few years of my school life I was very consumed by image and trying to be cool and gain my peers respect.

I can really relate to this. Not that I was particularly capable, it's just the fact that there were
teachers that saw me struggle and did nothing. I grew up in a pretty good school district, and
I can count on one hand (2 fingers?) the number of teachers that reached out to me.

Some might say that there's only so much teachers can do, which is true. But how about a serious reference
to a guidance counselor or school psychologist at least? The few times that I did see one, it was them
pretty much nodding their heads and waving in the next student.

One incident that I remember vividly was my friends and I being blamed for spray painting a teacher's house.
We were confronted, questioned and cleared. We had nothing to do with it.

The teacher, however, had a different opinion. He was clearly hostile to me after that incident, and having to
see this guy's face everyday after that just made me miserable. I was in the 8th grade at the time, and my anxiety issues
and mental state just got worse from there.

I was never concerned with grades in school really... I always did the best I could, but I never pushed myself really hard... in most cases, this was good enough for a B+ to an A(similar to your 1-2, Mikan). The only classes I had problems with was math subjects. In junior high/high school, those were C- D classes.

for me the older i became the worse my grades got since the older i became the worse my problems got. my last year i attended school i had a .02 grade average and faced problems like where i was going to sleep that night, and what i was going to eat that day if anything. things like good grades didn't mean a damn thing to someone like me. like porygon and knots i have a lot of anger for my youth and the adults who did nothing to help me better myself. unlike them i am not angry about my talents squandered but that the adults knew about my horrific home life and did nothing.

School never was in my interest, I just took some effort to get into grade 11 so i dont have to look for a job, now im average to low, still enough to graduade.
German school system isnt that bad at all

my grades were always pretty low. i hated school, it was so boring. i could never keep my mind on what was going on. i would finish all my homework in class, and put it in my desk and promptly forget about it. then, when it came time to turn it in, i would forget what i did with it and end up not turning anything in, resulting in very low grades. i always made perfect grades on my tests, so i managed to squeak by into the next grade level. i found out years later that my doctor had diagnosed me with ADD in 2nd grade, but my parents didn't believe him, and so i never received any kind of treatment.

They were a mix during highschool, I've gotten really high grades and really low ones. They're all very random as well, I could get a 30% in science from one teacher, and 80% from another. My math and art was usually consistently high in the 90s, I also skipped a lot due to anxiety, so I had a lot 0s and 10s as well.

They used to be very high, but at the moment they're pretty average, because I've missed too much school and I don't do the homework and such. And honestly I don't care that much. I should be able to improve them pretty easily, but don't think I will for now... My worst subject is gym. I always get light-headed when I'm running, because of Anaemia or lack of food, so I skip it a lot.

I was mostly a B student when I was a kid. In high school I was getting 10%-60% in subjects.

I had the highest grades in the class pretty consistently. I got quite a few awards for it. You'd think the teachers would have shown me an inking of respect because of that, but it seems the better I did, the worse they treated me.

I'm not the type of person who considers a person who's done well academically as being smart. I know lots of "smart" people who lack creativity and don't form opinions of their own, which are very important things (IMO) when determining whether someone is smart or not.

All you need to be able to do well academically is:

. Have ambition (if you don't care about school, you're not going to do well, or at least not as well as you'd do if you were interested in what you're studying.)
. Have average comprehension skills (lots of people who study don't fully understand what they're studying; you can often do well on tests even if you marginally understand the topic at hand.)
. Have good memory retention (you must have a good memory if you want to do well academically -- this is important.)
. Not suffer from any sort of disorder that will limit your ability to focus on your school-work (plenty of "truly" smart people do poorly academically since they can't focus due to anxiety, etc.)
. Study for tests/do your homework (studying for tests is one of the key things you can do to ensure you do well academically.)

Average, my last couple years were really easy though. I ended up in a private school and had a couple teachers that let some of us get away with cheating and one that would let us teacher pets sit with him during a test while having the score key opened on his desk.

It kinda pisses me off now though because I feel like I could have learned more.

If I were to attend school now, I imagine my grades would be twice as good as they were when I was a teenager.

There were many factors which lead me to attain poor grades.

Most of my grades were very good, I used to suck at maths and its related subjects though, but since I was so good at arts my math teachers used to exchange grades for some of my paintings, lol! So my grades at maths weren't so bad. Lately, I have been surfing the web about dyscalculia, may be that was my problem, I have never really understood maths, and all the things associated to it.

I'd probably be a what the americans refer to as a straight A student, except in PE.

Straight A's in highschool and i'm still in my first semester of college and will probably end up getting C's and B's. I just don't care about my grades anymore so i'm letting them slide. College also requires a lot more memorization which I'm terrible at so that's effecting my grades.

At the start of the year, I was at the top of my class.

But I haven't attended for about a month's time in class, out of the entire semester.

I have a great fear about going tomorrow.

I did very well in all subjects up until 4th grade, where I started experiencing some difficulties in maths. This wasn't a real problem with the marks until 9th grade, where I was scraping bare passes and then in 11th grade, where I was failing exams. I didn't want to do advanced maths in high school but it was expected of me.

I think the "New Maths" of the late 1960's/early 1970's was my downfall because I just didn't understand why they set things out the way they did. I could skip steps and still arrive at the correct answer but was marked down because I didn't do all the steps. I thought it was useless and boring to have to write down everything I already worked out in my head.

Trigonometry and calculus were the areas of maths I failed in senior high. I could not see how they related to real life as I led it and the teacher got sick of trying to explain it. I was too embarrassed to tell my parents I sat in classes and doodled in my pad because I didn't understand. They thought if I could get good marks in other subjects, why not maths?I had a big argument with mum when I said I wanted to change to general maths. It had areas such as statistics where I would have got far better marks.

I feel sorry for the kids of today because they seem to expected to do so much more homework than we ever had to and they don't have time to just be kids.

In high school, my grades were all over the place. I did well in English and foreign language classes because I've always had good writing skills and a natural ability with languages. My grades in history classes were average because the way they were taught bored me, so I lacked motivation to study. My grades in science and math classes were horrible. I often really liked my science classes and still remember what I learned, but I had test-induced anxiety and was often too shy to ask for extra help. In those classes, I always had a fear of failure that became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

However, in college my grades were consistently good. And in grad school, my grades were even better.

I think this has to do with the difference in teaching styles between levels of education. The higher up you get, the more everything is left up to you, and you get to do more writing / research projects, and take fewer tests. I thrive in less structured academic environments because I'm better at learning things on my own, at my own pace, than following an externally imposed schedule.

Good at the start of the year but worse as time went on. Mostly due to the sick days -- I think I was taking about 20 days off every semester my last year of school. I loved learning though. Math and Science were my favorite subjects. English was easy for me, minus the creative writing. History and Geography bored me to tears and my grades suffered because of that. I love certain periods of history, but I just could not get into Canada's VAST and EXCITING history. I went to catholic school, so I guess I'll include the religion subject. Good grades because all we did was read the bible and take tests. Basically reading comprehension tests. Basically a waste of time.