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[quote=Anonymous]" Is your child in public or private school? Is the school full of high achieving students? It is now hard to get C's in some public high schools because of grade inflation."

This is also NOT true in mid-level MCPS schools.  Our DC signs up for the honors version of classes and seems to end up with a 79% grade and the highest C in the class all the time.

Back to the OP's thread.  My guess is that OP's DC is not actually trying but rather is putting in more time doing things that don't work for longer and longer periods of time.

This shows they care and want to do better but that they need HELP.  OP, during the fourth quarter you need to encourage DC to go see their teachers and ask questions.

They need to spend some of their time not just doing their HW but thinking about the material enough so that they can make sense of the material and formulate questions they can ask.

OP, you need to look around the web for blogs or articles that talk about methods and better ways to study.  You might want to find a class this summer that teaches studying skills.

There is no magic way to study but lots of people get stuck on the idea that if they pay attention in class, do all their homework and go over everything the night before the test that there is nothing else.

This method only allows a student to see any part of the material 3 times.  Very few people can learn, say foreign language vocab or Calculus procedures only seeing them 3 times.

One possible way to increase the number of times DC sees the material is to spend 2 hours over every weekend, say 30 minutes for each of DC's 4 hardest classes building review sheets (and formulating questions for the teacher) for all the material they learned in the 4 classes since the last test.  When the test comes around, not only will they have a solid review sheet and answers to questions they had as they learned the material, but they will have spent reasonably spaced out time learning the material in small chunks that are more reasonable to learn than a whole tests worth of cramming.

OP, please get on this.  As others have said, your DC really is NOT really having problems in HS but they show signs of being on a track where they will have problems if they aim for a major that is harder than average in college.

Good luck
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