I'm in the 10th grade and I know I'm really smart, but I can't seem to get straight A's. Yea my current grades are really good (3.57 gpa) but I want better. No matter how hard I try I always have something that screws me up, forgetting an assignment, not getting perfect scores on tests. I know im capable of gettin thouse A's but they just slip past me. I have ADHD and am currently tryin to find a medication that works for me. Anyone have any helpful hints for remembering assignments?

What are you doing now to try to help yourself remember assignments?

You sound a lot like me at your age. Same basic gradepoint I had at that stage. For what it's worth, the further I got through school the better my grades got. As you go along you get into classes that you're more interested it, and that helps turn your brain on so you can do better. I was 3.89 when I gradeuated from college and had 4.0 in both my master's programs! So hang in there. I was before the high tech age, but a PALM pilot or something similiar might help. I just kept all my schedules, assignments, dates due, and assignments, etc in my notebook and kept that with me all the time (usually in a book bag, so I didn't lose stuff). Then obsessively double checked everything and marked off when something was done and again when it was handed in.

Do your best for you though, because once you're out of university no one really cares what your GPA was. Be sure to live and enjoy life too. Like President Bush once said during a speach at his alma mater, "To all you C students, I just want to tell you that you too can be President!" Being well rounded is more important than a 4.0.

Scattered

Kasparov,
Does your school have a Student Services department, or something like it, where someone could help you set up a system that works for you? Congratulations on doing so well in school.
Laura

Kasparov
I always had a planner in school. A ton of schools pass out really dorky ones, but get your own. Once I picked up a planner/organizer that I wasn't embarrassed to whip out, it was a LOT easier to look at what was due and what had to be done. I put everything in my life in there, from homework to work schedules. Like, once my teachers would tell us when something was due or gave us a date for something, it went right into the planner.
The big trick is to get into a routine of looking at it! It doesn't really help to have something with everything in there if you never look at it!

Well currently I have a planner and that has helped. No my school doesn't have a student services program that I know of, I will look into that. To Scattered: thanks for the encouragement, my problem is that i seem to be doing the oposite, down hill over three semesters. But I do have high hopes that it will get better. I would love to get a PALM but there is no chance of my parents getting me that.

I wish I could get a 3.59 GPA I wish I could at least get a 2.5 my grade point average is like a 1 something not good enough to make the honer role or merit role but good enough to play sports.
I know i could probably get straight A's if it wasnt for this stupid ADHD. It's not like I dont try I try harder then anyone in the class but I just cant seem to get anything abouve a C.