Obsession with Grades 2

You have multiple assignments given by your subject teachers due next week. What do you do?

• Procrastinate and hope for the best.

• Create a schedule and tackle one assignment at a time.

You were told by your subject teacher that you received a lower grade than expected. What’s your response?

• Panic and worry about future grades.

• Review the feedback, learn from mistakes, and plan for improvement.

You are the only among your close group of friends who didn’t make the school’s soccer team after trying out.

• I’ll learn the skills from my friends and try again next year. It’s an opportunity to improve.

• I’ll never be good at sports. I should just quit trying. So much to catch up!

You find your language class particularly difficult and your grades are suffering.

• This teacher is really not helping. There’s no use in putting in more effort.

• I need to find new study methods or ask others for help to get better at this.

You see a friend easily understanding material that you find hard.

• Maybe I can ask them for some tips on how they study. I can learn from them.

• I’ll never be as smart as them. They’re just naturally better.

You failed to reach your goal of getting an ‘A’ in a subject as expected by your friend despite studying hard.

• I’ll analyze what went wrong, seek feedback, and adjust my study plan for next time.

• My friend is right. Why bother trying?"

You are given a challenging group project with classmates who work differently than you.

• This will never work out. We’re too different to collaborate successfully.

• I can learn new ways of working and improve my collaboration skills through this project.

You’re assigned a topic for a paper that you find uninteresting and hard to write about.

• I can’t write a good paper on this topic because it’s boring and difficult. It’s the teacher’s fault for assigning me this topic.

• I can find an interesting angle and challenge myself to learn something new while writing this paper.