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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is your fault.  You are raising her in a high pressure and competitive environment and it’s not healthy.  Why is she discussing AP exam scores with her friends?  Why is she devastated over a damned 3?  Is this really the way you want to raise her?  I guarantee you a few years from now she’s going to be super bitter and blame you.  [/quote]
dp.. please.  Kids pick up pressure from each other, not always the parents.

My kid is the exact same as OP's - 3 on APGov, A in the class.  DC said they studied a lot. I never pressured DC to get more than a 3. In fact, I told DC that if they fail it, it's not the end of the world. DC took another AP and got a 2.   DC cried over both scores because of how hard they studied but still got a bad score.

I comforted DC, and told them that it[b]'s possible that the way they studied wasn't really conducive to absorbing what they were reading.   I won't go into how they studied, but I told DC that this wasn't the way to do it, [/b] but DC wouldn't listen to me.

Also, IMO, grade inflation is not helping.  These kids think that because they got an A in the class that they know the material, but grade inflation means that their A may really be a B, and so on.  IMO, it makes them over confident, and I think that this is what happened to my DC.

Now DC knows after learning the lesson the hard way  - learn to study, and getting an A in the class means nothing.  This part I blame the schools.[/quote]

Not nice to tease like that. [/quote]
lol.. it basically involved sitting for hours but with a lot of "breaks" in between, and short stints of reviewing and reading.  I told DC that at work, when I need to really focus on something, I need at least 2 hours of uninterrupted time to really delve into and absorb the details.   The short stints of studying with frequent breaks is not conducive to really absorbing the material, but what can we expect from the generation of tiktok and instant gratification.

Fortunately, DC is only 15 so they have time to learn how to focus... hopefully.  I don't know if DC will actually heed my advice, though. They have a short term memory about lessons learned.[/quote]

People slacked off studying long before TikTok was invented.

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