My academically struggling daughter got a 179 on the PSAT

[seemunkee]

85 percentile.
Just wish she could apply her intelligence in class.

[Taverner]

1. Hey I was an underacheiver

got 1300 on the SAT and managed to pull a 0 point my freshman year (now that took work)

At the time I needed some kind of reward - I saw none at the time.

[CarpeDiebold]

2. Aw yeahhh

Bet that feels good, huh? my guess is that her classes are too boring for her and she sees no point in applying herself. there's got to be a way to make her feel more invested in schoolwork and help her realize why it's important that she continue her great performance on the PSAT into her classes.

anyway, enjoy the moment and figure otu the rest in a few days. celebrating for now is the only thing to do :toast:

[seemunkee]

3. No its her way of learning doesn't fit

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Sounds like she's being taught too slowly, or in a way that doesn't

make sense to her.

Either way, she likely needs a different school, tutoring, or to have her teachers crank up the rate at which SHE gets information, perhaps through independant studies, extra work, etc.

I was 99 percentile on all standardized tests starting in elementary school, and while my grades were okay, they weren't the straight As that one would expect, because everything was coming at me so slowly that I could absorb enough in class to do well on tests, and I could crank out a paper in 30 minutes that better than most of the other students. Many a paper I wrote in the periods between classes on the day the paper was due, or on the bus ride to school. And homework? Forget it, mostly it got done on the morning bus ride to school. For all my classes.