Originally posted by jackeccs

Originally posted by VirgoThree

Originally posted by jackeccs

it's called extra credit

 

Meh I've never believed in BS school systems that give 110 percent or something along those lines. 4.0 is already perfect grades, so it seems pretty pointless to say you have better then perfect grades.

 

i'll second that.

i didn't graduate high school anyways.

alot of high schools dont use the 4.0 scale anymore... mine used a 12.0 scale and i know that one of the cities neighboring mine used an 8.0 scale... so it may have been possible he got a 4.2 on one of those other scales, and it usually wont show up past the limit of the scale, even with extra credit, most grading programs wont even allow extra points on assignments and if teachers choose to give extra credit they have to create an assignment on the system specifically for those kids that did the extra credit and give teh points to them that way.

*edit* and i graduated in 2008 and found enough time to play at least 2-4 hours on most nights easily, and i had a job and i participated Muay Thai and Brazillian Jiu-jitsu almost all of those nights. needless to say that i did have 2 study halls/Teachers aides (teachers aide is basically a glorified study hall that looks good on collage resumes in my high school) my junior and senior year and i had 1 study hall my freshman and sophomore year, so unless you want to graduate early just take study halls and actually study in them and you will have way more time at home to do what you want.

Originally posted by Thorn3

 

1.So who does?

2.If you do how do you find the time to play? Theres so much homeowork and you constantly have to be studying in case of pop quizes and tests and during exams you have to study for like 2 weeks just to pass and get your credit!
3. If you do play, how long do you play every day?

1.  I still do, I'm not graduating till 2009

2.  I always have time to play.  With homework it's thanks to the notes I take during class that it passes by really quickly.  With tests and exams, make a studying technique that works well.  For example:  if I was studying vocabulary I would put the words into a catchy phrase or a made up melody and it works perfectly.  Or if I was studying math and I needed to remember formulas, I would make up some stories that would go along with the formulas.

3.  I usually play about  5-7 hours on weekdays, and on weekends I play about the same hours since I hang out with my friends too.

Wow apparently everyone here is a star athlete, has a 4.8 GPA, and plays MMO's 2 hours everyday. Its ridiculous seeing this many people lie. I am with you OP. I rarely play video games on the week days. School from 8-4 then practice from 5-7. Eat dinner and at 8 start my homework. Perhaps if I didn't have swim practice for 2 hours everyday I could play MMO's but still with 6 of homework, I think not. Grades are more important than any video game I have found. Plus I am not remotely wealthy and will need to get a scholarship or borrow a hell of a lot of money to go to college.

Originally posted by TdogSkal

Highschool is a joke... you can skate by and still go to a good college...I would say do your best but Highschool does not teach you anything useful... nothing

Okay maybe not nothing but very little besides the World is unfair and you have to get used to being screwed over.

 

Highschool teaches two things.

1. Political Correctness

2. Just how inefficient the government is.

Originally posted by deadeyedave

Originally posted by jackeccs

Originally posted by VirgoThree

Originally posted by jackeccs

it's called extra credit

 

Meh I've never believed in BS school systems that give 110 percent or something along those lines. 4.0 is already perfect grades, so it seems pretty pointless to say you have better then perfect grades.

 

i'll second that.

i didn't graduate high school anyways.

 

alot of high schools dont use the 4.0 scale anymore... mine used a 12.0 scale and i know that one of the cities neighboring mine used an 8.0 scale... so it may have been possible he got a 4.2 on one of those other scales, and it usually wont show up past the limit of the scale, even with extra credit, most grading programs wont even allow extra points on assignments and if teachers choose to give extra credit they have to create an assignment on the system specifically for those kids that did the extra credit and give teh points to them that way.

*edit* and i graduated in 2008 and found enough time to play at least 2-4 hours on most nights easily, and i had a job and i participated Muay Thai and Brazillian Jiu-jitsu almost all of those nights. needless to say that i did have 2 study halls/Teachers aides (teachers aide is basically a glorified study hall that looks good on collage resumes in my high school) my junior and senior year and i had 1 study hall my freshman and sophomore year, so unless you want to graduate early just take study halls and actually study in them and you will have way more time at home to do what you want.

Well then that would make more sense, but I doubt he would be proud of a 4.2 if this were the case because that sounds rather low on a 12.0 scale.

On a side note....that avatar of yours made me think you are another person on these forums

i for one am an avid MMO player and played wow, CoX, and guild wars non stop in high school and ill admit, i was only average because of it, 3.0 gpa, b or c in everything except art lol, never did any homework or anything, nor joined any clubs because all i wanted to do was come home and play warcraft, and i played from 3 when i got home to 2am, and slept half of my time at school : /.

also thought about warcraft all day and talked to people who played it about it.....thankfully i quit 8 months ago, all video games,  and now ill be going to college and hopefully will go past average :P

Originally posted by Deadsyzz0mg

i for one am an avid MMO player and played wow non stop in high school and ill admit, i was only average because of it, 3.0 gpa, b or c in everything except art lol, never did any homework or anything, nor joined any clubs because all i wanted to do was come home and play warcraft, also thought about warcraft all day and talked to people who played it about it.....thankfully i quit 8 months ago and now ill be going to college and hopefully will go past average :P

I was pretty much the same way in high school. Grades really were not that important to me, because I saw high school as completely pointless and it was pretty easy for the most part. Although now that I'm in college I take my courses much more seriously, because it is actually worthwhile this time around....which reminds me I should be working on my animation final atm lol.

Originally posted by v1c1

Wow apparently everyone here is a star athlete, has a 4.8 GPA, and plays MMO's 2 hours everyday. Its ridiculous seeing this many people lie. I am with you OP. I rarely play video games on the week days. School from 8-4 then practice from 5-7. Eat dinner and at 8 start my homework. Perhaps if I didn't have swim practice for 2 hours everyday I could play MMO's but still with 6 of homework, I think not. Grades are more important than any video game I have found. Plus I am not remotely wealthy and will need to get a scholarship or borrow a hell of a lot of money to go to college.

I agree with you, some of the responses here are quite ridiculous. I'm still in high school, and with AP classes and SATs, I can most definitely play 1-3 hours a day. However, I most certainly won't be getting A+ grades. I have friends in high school who take college classes, and have been doing so from 10th grade. They have their hands full to the point of staying up to 1 and 2 in the morning doing work, and they're VERY intelligent. That's without having any time for games. To be honest though, I'm not surprised, seeing as it is THIS forum.

I am in college and still play. Not playing anything atm though, because all the current mmo's suck.

Dunno why people are saying 4.2 is impossible and stuff. AP/IB classes are made so if you get a C, it counts as a B in the point system, and so on. So if you have all A's and you are in an AP class, your GPA goes above 4.0.

The guy probably was lying though... Grades don't make somebody smart anyways. It is usually the morons who are so interested in the class, and put forth a huge effort.

I started playing MMO's back when i was in 5th grade, and still do(going into my senior year). I stand by the fact that i was the first person in my grade to play MMO's.

High school isn't hard for me because i don't strive for straight A's. I don't care about them, and i don't feel that its worth all the time i would need to put into it.

I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)

*cough* *wheeze* Back in my day, we did not have no fancy MMOs...we used Dial up...with a modem...and 4800 baud was considered fast....whippersnappers!

Pong Rules!

*Cough* *Flat-line*

Originally posted by mmofanatic

I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)

Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running.  Possibly youre just fat/slow?

I'll admit - I got into MMOs my freshman year. Before that, I was an A+ student - no problems whatsoever. When games like SWG, WoW, and AC2 came into my life, that wonderful A+ attitude turned into mediocrity. I'll be truthful, I graduated with a 3.85 (played some serious catch-up senior year), that's definitely not some of the 4.8s or whatever that some people on this thread lay claim to. I still got into the college I wanted to go to, however, and that's the only thing that matters. Hopefully this thread will come to show how inefficient our public school system is in the US - it just flat out sucks. I might not be the best source of opinion, though; what with Alabama being 48th in education, or something like that. Gaming definitely lowered my grades in the long run, I just got lucky. Make sure your priorities are straightened out - that ACT/SAT you have to take tomorrow is probably more important than a Kara raid your guild just -has- to complete.

Originally posted by colenorm

Originally posted by mmofanatic

I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)

 

Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running.  Possibly youre just fat/slow?

Ya pretty much, tried running, sucked at it and didn't enjoy it. But then again, its always more fun if your good at something. But all the distance kids wish they threw a discus half the distance i did.

Originally posted by mmofanatic

Originally posted by colenorm

Originally posted by mmofanatic

I still manage 2+ hours a weekday of video games after a full day of school and track practice. (Not running, cause thats lame and who runs for fun. Throwing is the way to go.)

 

Hey bro, dont be hating on CC/Track running.  Possibly youre just fat/slow?

 

Ya pretty much, tried running, sucked at it and didn't enjoy it. But then again, its always more fun if your good at something. But all the distance kids wish they threw a discus half the distance i did.

Damn, that reminds me of my school's CC team. If you wanted to see skinny white boys built like lamp posts, that's where you would want to go. I know from experience.

Originally posted by DrChicken

I'll admit - I got into MMOs my freshman year. Before that, I was an A+ student - no problems whatsoever. When games like SWG, WoW, and AC2 came into my life, that wonderful A+ attitude turned into mediocrity. I'll be truthful, I graduated with a 3.85 (played some serious catch-up senior year), that's definitely not some of the 4.8s or whatever that some people on this thread lay claim to. I still got into the college I wanted to go to, however, and that's the only thing that matters. Hopefully this thread will come to show how inefficient our public school system is in the US - it just flat out sucks. I might not be the best source of opinion, though; what with Alabama being 48th in education, or something like that. Gaming definitely lowered my grades in the long run, I just got lucky. Make sure your priorities are straightened out - that ACT/SAT you have to take tomorrow is probably more important than a Kara raid your guild just -has- to complete.

That sounds like what I'll be doing. I've been pulling along a C average until 11th grade. My GPA right now is like 3.2/3.3. I'll be playing catch-up my senior year as well. I took a SAT class and got 1800 and now I'm taking private SAT lessons, hoping for at least 2000 my second time around. It'll be hard, but if I get As my senior year, my GPA should jump up enough to make a good pair with my SAT scores. Gaming will be on the backburner.

I just graduated in June with both my AA and my HS Diploma. It was hard, but totally worth it and I was still able to get some serious gaming done (and get into a very nice college)

Can't say I had much of a social life though.. Apart from my ingame friends and my boyfriend (who also games).

4.32 GPA, 32 ACT, 2070 SAT.

Originally posted by TdogSkal

Highschool is a joke... you can skate by and still go to a good college...I would say do your best but Highschool does not teach you anything useful... nothing

Okay maybe not nothing but very little besides the World is unfair and you have to get used to being screwed over.

 

You must not know how the schools work in Texas.

Actually, I just realized that I hadn't taken nationality into account. Some schools in other nations (like Great Britain) have extremely wide grade ranges, almost makes American schools look elite.

Can I request to have this thread completely and utterly destroyed before it turns into a typical collegeconfidential.com look-at-my-scores-and-my-awesome-grades-that-absolutely-no-one-cares-about-because-there-is-no-substantial-proof posting, there's nothing worse than the old "look at my huge e-peen," except, of course, for "look at my huge... errr... e-brain." Send in the trolls!