High Test Scores/Poor Grades?

Question

What do you think are the reasons a student might get a high ACT /SAT/ PSAT score but not have a very high GPA?

Answer 1

Many instructors are more concerned that the student jump through the proper hoops than they are with whether the student retains information . . . i.e. learns.

One can score perfectly on all of the tests, and still come out with a near failing grade, because homework (which helps you learn) and countless other assignments can count for half of the final grade.

Sometimes, the object is not to learn, it is to make your teacher happy. Learning is incidental.

Life is funny like that.

Answer 2

It is entirely possible that a student gets a high standardized test score, but a low GPA (or vice versa). A standardized test like the SAT is a reasoning test, and is very different from the regular tests a student takes in class. While the content (math, reading, grammar) is very similar, the SAT focuses on creative uses of reasoning and problem solving skills. Also, the SAT is a 4+ hours test consisting of timed sections with mostly multiple choice questions, and a timed essay. This format is very different from a regular HS test, and students well prepared for one may not be comfortable with the other.

Answer 3

A lot of very smart students are bored in school. They don't see the point of homework and therefore choose not to do it. Unfortunately, a lot of teachers weigh heavily on HW grades when computation grades at the end of the marking period. Students can be great test takers but if they don't do their homework, their grades will suffer.

Answer 4

This tells me two things: 1) The student most likely has poor organizational skills* and 2) The student is capable of retaining the information.

*Organizational skills include: losing the homework assingments and worksheets, forgetting to do the HW, losing the HW on the way to school, disorganized lecture notes, lack of planning for long-term projects, inattention in class and just generalized chaos.

Answer 5

It relies upon on what form of school you're in. in case you're in highschool, then that is style of risky. in case you do no longer how you will artwork for grades, then... on an analogous time, even in college i did no longer could do 'examining' like others did. as long as I study previous to time, took sturdy notes from the e book, sturdy notes from the professor, then examining from my notes the week of the attempt (and taking the day without work till now genuinely did help me... or easy examining if something) then I did nicely with not one of the cramming/examining others did. and then there is a few classes you will ace and others you will flounder in. I bear in concepts I have been given very very severe marks in issues like Physics and music, and had to conflict for issues like Calculus and organic and organic Chemistry. I knew some persons who have been super at math who could no longer have charted the chord progression in a music if their existence depended on it which i got here upon strange because of the fact that is an analogous language... nevertheless all of us have our strengths and weaknesses. direction possibly you're ask your self baby and could cake walk on your degree. To which I say fortunate!

Answer 6

Some people are very intelligent, but they don't apply themselves. They may fall into the wrong crowd at school and care more about their social life and reputation than doing well in school. Also, some people are great test takers but are lazy about doing other work (homework, term papers, etc.).

Answer 7

That was me. 1400 SAT, 1.77 GPA. Didn't get to be a halfway decent student until sophomore year in college.