How can you improve a grade in 10 days?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Hi,

1. talk to your teacher, tell him/her you have the ambition to improve.
2. Tell him/her you are disappointed with yourself and you need to do this in order to satisfy your own expectations. (Much better that telling him/her you do this because of reasons from outside I.e. your parents expect you to)
3. ask if you can do any special homework or any research/presentation for the class in order to improve your grade.
4. Ask your teacher for a subject and a task or make a proposal of your own. If he/she agrees, work really, really, really hard and just make it perfect. Or at least as close to perfect as it can be.

Best is to refer to any subject you have had before and pick a special element or side-field that hasn’t been worked on in class. So for example if your last subject in history class was the constitution of the USA then you could propose making a presentation ‘Excursus: the idea of democracy and where it came from; from ancient Greek to the French revolution’. Just an example.

Whatever subject you pick. You’ll have to do a lot of research and you’ll have to make handouts for your fellow students and you’ll have to design a presentation (make it with powerpoint and borrow a portable PC and a projector), you’ll have to explain the whereabouts if the incidents you work at and the concepts and ideas of the time…

The other possibility is to hand in a written homework. So you don’t have to get an appointment for your presentation.

Whatever you do will be a hell of a lot to do for just 10 days, but if you do it well then it might work.

Just don’t think you could do some lazy hafl-baked wannabe-work, polish the design and get anything for it. You should have done that in the last semester. (You know that) Now you’re actually pretty late. So either you give 5000% effort and make a bail-out sprint for the home stretch or you keep your grade D.

wish you best anyway the sheep