Does your school pressure you into getting good grades?

[Matthew]

Lmfao every school does

that's why they enter us for exams WAYYY too early - that's why we are forced to resit everything if the school isn't happy with your grade - that's why they fit as many pointless qualifications into our short time there
to make themselves look good

not for our benifit, but for theirs.

Well my school doesn't do that at all.

My school doesn't pressure us to get the very best grades, it merely encourages us and tries its hardest to get us to do the best we can. They don't force us to do resits and they don't enter us into pointless subjects, my school only does the 'better' subjects at both GCSE and A-Level (no citizenship, general studies or any of that crap). The only 'pressure' of sorts is that say you want to do maths at A-Level, then you need at least an A at GCSE etc, physics likewise you need an A (as we do pre-u physics so its harder). The rest of the subjects you need Bs for I think (maybe Cs in some idk), except further maths which of course you need an A* at GCSE to do.

Having said that we can do various GCSE-equivalent BTECs in CCF/RAF and stuff

I go to a private school by the way.

[Liva]

Yeah, all the teachers assume you wanna go to uni. Which I don't, and it's irritating. :/

[Kardan]

My school didn't do that at all. I'd be told my working at grade, and be told my target grade, and that was about it. Maybe it was because I was one of the students that was at the top, so there wasn't that much pressure to perform.

Likewise at Uni, there's pretty much no pressure at all.

[Shar]

My secondary school used to and so did my 6th form but college was really nice and uni's ok.

[Special]

yes they did, if they don't they're not a very good school

[wiktoria]

yh they did

[Phil]

My school didn't and I don't think that schools should. Yes, they should push you to do as best as you can and to maximise your limits but that doesn't necessarily mean they should be pushing you for top grades.

[oli]

Of course it does and every school should

What annoys me though is in some schools (not so much mine) teachers just aim to get students to a C grade and don't put enough effort into the students with high potential to get A's and A*'s

I go to an academy and we get a lot of support

<this exact thing>
except i dont go to no *REMOVED* london academy
or even worse wren academy

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[compositeLegend]

I actually finished my Year 12 exams last week, and I did attend a Selective Entry school, so there was a lot of pressure from teachers to do well. I find this was good motivation, but it was also stressful. However, despite this pressure, I find that the school did provide resources to assist us in getting good marks and that the student cohort also assisted in this. I find that this pressure is just because the school wants to maintain it's record of high marks but also because generally students want to do well.

I did find that the competitive side of the cohort did bring me down during my first years at the school, but after a while, it just motivated me to do well.

My school didn't have a policy which didn't allow students to complete end of year exams, unless you're talking about the HSC/VCE exams, then I do know a few people in my year level that were asked by the coordinators to repeat Year 11 because of bad grades/attendance.

[nat965]

My school didn't pressure me because it was a smallish school compared to the public school down the road. They always said that there are always other opportunities out there and other avenues to get where you want to be, rather than getting A+'s on every single subject at school.