J. K. Rowling Quotes

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

I never insisted that I was a good student.

I never thrived in high school.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'

Drama at Bristol was an academic course: you were judged on your A-levels, and there were no auditions. I did a BA General degree.

I was in honors classes in high school. I'd get an A on every test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The teacher would say, 'You didn't do your homework.' I'd say, 'But isn't the homework supposed to be the lead-up to the test?'

Schoolwork was always suffering! I hated school!

In high school, I was an absolute derelict.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

Usually you have a feel for what a kid's abilities are by the end of their sophomore year.

I was not a great student.

You're going to lose points and gain points throughout the year.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn't going to get me into med school.

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

My family had seen that I was not putting enough heart and soul into studies. I started failing too, but they were sure that I will eventually end up doing a job.

Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.

Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?