[Finurlig]

How do INTP's deal with getting low grades/bad feed-back on their work?

[x01660]

Guilty as charged;

I do really well on midterms and finals (A work) but it's all that turning in assignments during the semester that just doesn't work for me...


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[kikikins]

It depends. If I studied a ton for the exam and I don't do as well as I hoped I get pretty upset. Most of the time, I don't let it get to me for more than oh I dunno...an hour. Usually because I didn't try all that much anyway.

[Ablysmal]

In the past, I used to be a complete obsessive freak about my grades. If I got anything below a B, I would have a mini break down and feel like a complete failure. But now I don't really care all that much anymore. Of course I still try to maintain a good enough mark to pass, but the low grades no longer phase me. I don't see them as that important anymore.

[qingdom]

A - Awesome
B - Brilliant
C - Classic
D - Dazzling
E - Excellent
F - Fantastic


I have no problem with piecing together Fantastic level work if I do say so myself. Matter of opinion between others, of course; especially with teachers who don't agree with my point of tangent views.


I should also note that point ratings on a scale of 1 - 100%, the lower the percentage, the less you are to think like other potential cubicle drones in the future!

Scale of 1 - 5, where 1 is 'best performance' and 5 being 'worst performance', I'm doing them a favor letting them know where their systems are flawed and needs patching before someone files a lawsuit or gets hurt... especially with unsupervised lab work, experimentation, and end results.

[Iamtp]

As an underachiever, bad grades never bothered me in the slightest other than not wanting to get grounded (a while back).
I believe I have a few "progress reports" from the 90's buried in my back yard so my parents didn't see them.

I'd be annoyed if I actually tried and still did poorly but I rarely could force myself to study at all and my grades reflected that.

[D7ark7]

that experience has yet to come. OOOOOOOO

No, it depends how much effort I put in it and if I knew I did bad it doesn't shock me as much. If it is something I'm not interested in (such as languages) it leaves me indifferent. But, if my expectations were high and I did not as well as I thought I would and it's something I actually care about, then that may have me dazzled for a while.

[Abyss]

I too was an underachiever but mainly because 1: I could put in pretty much no effort and pass and 2:my parents were pretty relaxed. I could have done pretty well but I justified it by saying: "Why put in the extra effort when I'm going to pass anyway? A pass is a pass whatever grades you get.". For my final exams I probably put in the least effort I ever did and passed reasonably well. I still do not understand what the point of school was or will ever be so I didn't give a damn as long as I passed and my parents weren't on my back.

[Neurasthenia]

Now that I'm in college I don't dare miss an assignment.

But in high school/all my schooling before that...

Poor performance was often met with shame, depression, self-loathing, etc.

I always had a certain anxiety about failing, but for the most part the busy work assigned to me in my pre-college education just felt too meaningless/tedious/infuriatingly dry for me to feel driven to complete it all.

I ended up doing alright in high school, but I had to take night and summer classes in the last couple years to make sure I'd graduate on time. My sophomore year I went from D's and F's to all A's, and because of it won a "Most Inspirational Student" award. But after that, my high anxiety cooled down and became the usual fatigue and stress I was used to, so I was back to forcing myself to scrape by. All told, I ended high school with approximately a 2.9 GPA. :/

But in college... I haven't missed a single credit so far. I am actually a little bit ahead (have junior standing in the end of my second year). But really... a lot of the stuff I write is bullshit. That's what I love about college: It's all about making connections. I can make connections up the hizzow (or something), but whether or not I believe what I'm writing is another story. But it doesn't matter! :D

These days I would respond to low grades with panic and severe self-loathing. I'd look to amend the situation immediately.

But I think I feel that way now because college is easier than high school/there is less bullshit busy work to sift through. There are quantitatively less assignments but the assignments are larger, and the nature of the assignments feels more relevant to the way I think.

Sorry, tangential rant there...

[Mysteriouschic]

I used to not be bothered and now I hate it and try everything I can to improve . Usually my favourite subjects I care most about getting the good grade if it's a subject I hate I won't care as much.