GPA... don't get me started about my GPA. It was crap last year... and my dad said that I'd better work harder this year.
I thanked God that he wasn't holding a ruler or a cane.
87 is good. 75 is bad. 87 will be a B+ or an A-. But 75 would definitely be a C.
That sounds like my dad too.
I can never get those type of grades. I'm just not good enough.
Strangely, my parents consider me to be their most academically-minded child, though I've only gotten close to 90% (for an exam) once in my life.
They take my score (Stanford 10s) and my siblings' scores and yell at them (sister and little brother) about how my scores for the spelling section are okay compared to theirs: 'Look at your sister, she didn't miss any spelling words this year! And last year she only missed out one!! Out of the entire section!! And you guys- can't even get 80% for spelling! Don't you know how easy spelling is?! It's supposed to be an easy A!!'
It's not like that for the other subjects... not to mention that I had no idea about the definitions of 'inches', 'yards', 'miles', 'quarts' and 'cups' for Math.
Why can't the Stanford 10s just use the metric system?!
Maybe when I have more free time. I have to get better grades for Humanities, Biology, Geometry and Chinese this year.