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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid needs to talk to the teachers if he doesn't understand the grade he's receiving.   This was DD this year.  After a few assignments where she got a B when she thought it was an A, she approached her teacher and asked if they could meet to go over the assignment and grade.  They did, and the teacher pointed out why she gave the grade she did and explained.  It took a couple tries but by the end, she was getting As. [/quote]

This is great advice, and good for your DD for meeting with the teacher. You can't improve if you have a blind spot about where you came up short. For OP's child who believes their best effort was already A quality but found out it wasn't, if DC can figure out that last incremental skill (whether it's something broadly applicable like critical thinking, recall, writing, time management, study habits, application of knowledge to new facts, reading comprehension for the questions on the exam/assignment, etc. or something not clicking about the subject matter itself), then DC can work to improve to an A.[/quote]

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