Transcripts: High School Career

My attendance through high school has been great. I’ve missed school for medical appointments or family emergencies. During my sophomore year I did not do so well in my attendance, but since then I’ve matured and realized my past mistake. Beyond this point I have not missed school. I like to be on time for my classes. Missing school to me is like having extra work , I personally do not like missing school, one day can step you back in all your classes.

A time that I experienced failure was when i failed my Algebra II class for first semester. My biggest error was that I didn’t retake my quizzes that i failed when i had the chance too. The first 3 months i didnt really tried, I would tell myself that I had a lot of time for the semester to end. However, i regretted it when i found out that i only had a few weeks for the semester to end. I stressed out the last weeks, I couldn’t go to sleep in the night. I would keep thinking of my grade and how i was going to fail the class. I knew that colleges were gonna see my grades for this year, my junior year. I really want to go to college, I want to make my parents proud. The last weeks, i did everything that i could. I did all the missing homework, and I tried to

One of the unusual circumstances which have affected my personal achievement in school was during my freshman year. During my first year of high school, I missed the first two and half weeks of school and my grades were greatly affected. I started out with really low grades, but I worked my way up to receiving five A’s, one B, and one C. I was still very disappointed in myself because I ended up receiving a C in math. I didn’t really get the chance to go get help after school because I didn’t have a ride after school. Before school the teacher wasn’t available. That was the only time during high school when I received such a low grade and I wish I could have the chance to fix this.

Major changes in my life have affected my high school career, but a large impact came from the death of my father in eighth grade. Before his passing, I was an average A/B student in middle school and even elementary school, which quickly changed in 8th grade when my classes became too hard for me to handle. I decided the best thing for my mental health was to drop out of my higher level classes. This lead to being in standard classes throughout my first year of high school with minimal effort from my part. After constantly missing school, I failed my second quarter. Instead of bouncing back from this, it pushed me down, making me believe I would never be able to recover. Without any motivation, I ended my ninth grade year with a grade point average of 1.4.

My freshman and sophomore years of high school my grades did not represent my abilities due to a lot of health issues resulting from 3 different concussions. I spent quite a lot of time unable to go to school and falling behind due to not feeling well from the concussions as well as going to doctor appointments and being in the hospital. At this time it was hard for me to retain information and pay attention due to chronic migraines resulting from the concussions as well as a lack of sleep due to insomnia I had developed as a side effect from the concussions. All of this made my grades not as great as they should have been my first two years of high school and this does not reflect myself as a student. As my junior year began I was able to

I admit, I had a very challenging time last semester, and as a result my grades suffered. I don’t mean to make excuses for my poor performance in school but I would like to explain my circumstance. During my second semester of college I treated my classes like I did in high school thinking I could coast by and pass my classes, but when I noticed how poorly I was doing in class everything was already headed downhill. I started the second

My first failure discouraged me to the point where, I felt like I would never reach an advanced math level again. The lack of self-confidence that resulted from my sub-par math scores soon began to negatively affect some of my other classes. I quickly realized that the trend had to stop. I worked diligently to achieve what, at the time, seemed unattainable. My change in the outlook of my repeated failures helped me to finally succeed. Throughout the course of the last two years, I have grown more self-aware in my study habits. I push myself even harder when I think I have done the best I can.

Swain County High School currently serves students grades 9-12. It has a Freshman Academy (FA) which functions on a hybrid schedule. Students receive 4 credits by attending year-long classes for the two blocks of the day. They are housed in a separate building during these two blocks and then join the rest of the school for 4 electives over the course of two semesters. The FA consists of English 1, Math 1 or Math 2 for those who were proficient in Math 1 in the 8th grade, Health and PE and a class called 21st Century skills, which focuses on transitional issues with freshmen. We offer a team taught, A/B day, year-long schedule for the regular World History and English 2 classes. Outside of these specific hybrid components to the schedule Swain is on a 86 minute block schedule with a 30 minute advisor/advisee period built into the end of the day. Besides the standard required subjects (English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Health and PE) we offer 27 CTE courses with 8 different concentrations, 2 foreign languages with a face to face teacher and several online options, and 4 different types of arts classes (choral, band, theater, and visual arts). We offer seven Advanced Placement (AP) classes. We offer honors in all levels of English, Social Studies and Math, as well as in Biology and Chemistry.

When it came to school work and tests in class I always performed quite well and never had any problems there. The story was different when I had to do work at home. I was never motivated, and I was lazy when it came time to start my homework. My grades suffered drastically because I put off my work until it was late, or I just never did it. For a while I even realized my problem and still couldn’t get myself to do my homework. The worst part about having bad grades at the time was that it made me ineligible for the sports that I loved. After I found that my

For example, my grade in English, 78.6 percent was caused by my slow transition into college level writing. My grammar on the writing assignments is something I struggle with, because I write the way I talk. I am trying to work on my grammar by using the proof-reader from paperrater.com. I am also trying to work on my paper writing skills by doing a lot of pre-writing strategies. Also I did not do as well as I wanted on the math placement test because I did not prepare myself properly for the test. I was under the impression that the test was going to be on majority of the things we learned in class but to my surprise, the test had trigonometry on it. I think if I had better prepared myself, I would have done better and placed in the class I actually wanted. My time management skills needs a lot of improvement, my financial and professional goals were not completed because of this. I was so focused on completing homework and ended up completely forgetting about those two

Attendance was always a subject that would go away with a meeting with the principal, until middle school that was. I let my truancy hinder my motivation, creating huge problems such as massive amounts of missing assignments, greater anxiety from lowering grades, and even worse academic habits. If I could tell my younger self one thing, it would be that though school is tough, you need persevere. I see just how greatly I let my anxiety affect my work, my affability, and my well-being. The reality of life is that it will always have ups and downs. Coming to terms with these aspects of my life meant greater clarity in my goals, my education, and my

I will give you the short version of my story. In high school I could care less about my grades. I just tried enough to pass to the next grade. I had a very low self-esteem and was an introvert. I did not have many friends and did not do well in sports. I always avoid things that I thought I could not accomplish.

In my 7th-grade history class, I was having trouble with my assignments. At the start of the year, it was all easy for me, but over time, it became difficult. The reason was that I couldn’t understand what’s happening when reading the passage in the textbook. Therefore, I felt that I couldn’t overcome understanding what the tests are saying. I would have just stared at the passages like a hawk during my tests. Eventually, I stopped doing my homework and studying for tests as a result of thinking it was useless to try. At the end of that semester, my grade was a D since I was slacking off. I was truly shocked when I saw my grade because I believed I was going to fail everything.

In my high school career my grades have been of great importance to me both at Lemoore High School and Hanford High School. My whole freshman year I was able to maintain a 4.0. My sophomore year I did have a little bit of a downfall with my grades but I was put in home studies so that I could solely focus on my schoolwork and once I was focused again I went back to Hanford High. My junior year I came to LHS and my grades improved, I ended that year with 6 A’s and 1 C. As of right now I am ending my senior year with a 3.84 GPA which I am very satisfied with. Overall I am proud of the grades I have kept throughout these four years and I will strive to maintain a high academic standing as I further my education in college.

Through out my high school career I never took my education seriously. For most of the four years it was a big blur. I’m not quite sure if it was because of me or if I found myself blaming my surroundings or teachers for my lack of focus and strive to learn. A failure can mean different things to everyone else. Maybe there’s just different types or categories of failures. These failures are meant to teach us something, or motivate us to simply not make these mistakes again.