Get Great Grades

Even though kids have many reasons for not getting great grades. I find the most common is they don’t have the confidence. They keep telling themselves “I won’t get a good grade anyway, why should I even try.”This is the story of how I realized that I can have the confidence to achieve my academic goals.

Between the grades of first and sixth I had okay grades I wasn’t failing but I wasn’t getting straight A’s either. I still always did my homework but never put in the extra mile. My parents just really wanted me to be happy. There were the usual smart kids in class and i never thought i could be one of them.

In seventh grade we had to take the Terra Nova test. My elementary school’s students always have tested above

the average of fifty, so our teachers told us just to try our hardest and do the best we can. I had just tried the best I could, answering questions as honestly as possible. When we had gotten are results back in February I had been so surprised I had not only done above average but was one of the top in my class and the highest testing girl in my class of about nineteen. With my numbers ranging around seventy to eighty-nine, with math being eighty-nine. At the the time I had been getting a letter grade of C in math, needless to say my math teacher was upset with me.

This happening was my push to get better grades because I finally had a combination of caring and confidence. My goal of eighth grade was to be on the gold honor roll(all letter grade A’s) at school. During the halfway point of the fourth quarter I had finally achieved this goal. After graduation we got our final grades. Unfortunately, I had gotten all A’s and one B, in math. I cried upset because I tried to maintain all A’s. That is also my current goal at Queen of Peace and hope to achieve it.