This posting is a continuation of the last posting, More Tips for Nontraditional Students: 10 situations, plus possible solutions.
We explore #1, in more detail today.
#1. Your grades are NOT what you want. The answer from the other posting was: "You can always take the class over, maybe extend the time (take an Incomplete), or move on to another class you can do better in."
Yes, that can work. But it's a lot more complicated than that, really. Who knows what the reason was for this happening. It could be because of a lot of things.
Also, you may not have this problem. You may be doing fine and have gotten the grades you want in every class. If you are like me, though, you did not always get straight A's... sometimes a class was harder than others, and you got a lower grade. This can happen for many reasons.
You may have gotten lower than A's in more than one class. You might even have gotten such "bad" grades that you might be on probation, or have to take classes over.
Don't think it's the end of the world. It's not. Many people have had things like this happen, for many different reasons. If you have learned from what happened, that is good, and hopefully you can come back from this stronger, and more able to succeed in school OR in life.
Don't give up... and don't give up on school, or yourself. There are more ideas to help you solve this problem.
A. You can talk to a trusted friend (maybe a fellow student) and come up with a plan to do better next semester.
B. You can talk to your school Advisor about that too, and finding out what you can do to make things better and to do better next semester. And, depending on what was going on with you, an appointment with a Counselor (often free at your school too...) might also help you pinpoint what to do next.
Here are some more things to think about:
Your GPA can be affected by having a "bad" or low grade in a certain class. You may find you have to take a class over to try to fix this. That is totally OK.
ADDING: Someone wrote me about this option. And reminds me to say that your original grade might not be changed - - instead, you may still have your original grade listed on your transcript. The new one will also be listed. And your GPA may change for the better. But it's not like a Magic Eraser for your original grade. Just saying.
But beyond that, anyone can have a "bad" semester. It happens.
C. In a worst case scenario, you might need to work for awhile and pay back your student loans, then apply again later, either where you went to school or to another school. There ARE choices out there that you can make to start making things better for yourself.
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Have you gone through a situation like this? How did you handle it?
Leave a comment below.
This Grades Tip posting is just one subject I will be exploring on the blog later on.
Here is the original posting you might like to check out:
More Tips for Nontraditional Students: 10 situations, plus possible solutions.
And here are a couple of other postings that might help you now, and in the future.
Some Study and Final Project Tips
What Successful Nontraditional Students need to have, and
Woman graduates college after 40 Semesters (wow...)
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And here are the expanded answers to this posting, so far:
#1: Were your grades great, or would you like a redo of them, nontraditional students?
#2: Not enough credits to graduate, CLEP, addition, accreditation, transfers, more.
#3. Are you taking the courses you want to take? Or is it time to change course?
#4. You don't know if you want to continue, for any reason. Can you continue on?
#5. Are your student loans adding up too fast?
Betsyanne
#1.
Your grades are NOT what you want.
You can always take the class over, maybe extend the time (take an
Incomplete), or move on to another class you can do better in. - See
more at:
http://non-traditional-students.blogspot.com/2014/05/more-tips-for-nontraditional-students.html#.U5N3iS_GJow
#1.
Your grades are NOT what you want.
You can always take the class over, maybe extend the time (take an
Incomplete), or move on to another class you can do better in. - See
more at:
http://non-traditional-students.blogspot.com/2014/05/more-tips-for-nontraditional-students.html#.U5N3iS_GJow
Some Nontrad links:
The Nontrad site and blog
Join Nontrads on Facebook, Nontrads on Yahoo, and Nontrads on Twitter
