Effective Strategies for Grade Improvement

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Now, I know that my grade in this class could probably use some improvement and I am going to try my hardest to get my grade up. So the first thing that is going to happen is making sure that any work that I get from now on is turned in on time. By turning in the work on time I ensure that my grade will not be lowered because I turned in an assignment in late and got points taken away. Now say I missed a couple of days of school I can always ask the teacher for the work that I missed and do it at home, which if turned in will replace the zeros that were there previously. Something else that I can try is asking the teacher for help, teachers usually know what they teach so, by asking them for help it could help me increase my chances at score higher on any and all future assignments. Extra credit is another thing that I can do to increase my grade by a couple of points. Even though teachers only do this from time to time it is a great way to get a few extra points those points could easily improve my grade from a “C” to a “B”. It is not that hard to do especially when you put your mind to it, anything becomes possible.


Something else that I can do, if the teacher approves of it they might give me a chance to redo a previous assignment that I did not do too well on. If that …show more content…

All of that is all because of the fact that we all tried our absolute hardest in all of our classes. I hope that the teachers know how much effort I put in to all of the work that I do. It is not always easy when teachers want to give five pages of homework to do when you get home especially when we might be juggling younger siblings and a job, but some way or another we get the work done and turned in on

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