I’m not sure if this is the correct subreddit (if this is the wrong one, please tell me which subreddit I should post this question in), but I’m starting my junior year in high school soon, and my exam results over the past 2 years have been plummeting (i used to be a straight A student), since I couldn’t find any motivation to study, and have mostly gotten Cs and Bs in my report card.
And this might sound a little silly, but I recently came across a post while scrolling on instagram that made me realize that very soon I would have to start thinking about university applications and exams like the SAT and ACT. My current school does not have ‘good’ teachers (of course, it could only be my opinion), but many of the teachers do not teach properly. I’ve often heard my seniors complain about this, and experienced this myself. So I brought this issue up to my parents and told them that I wanted to transfer schools, since I can’t transfer in my senior year, but they refused, telling me that if I was just blaming my poor marks on my teachers.
Plus, I also dream of studying abroad, which might sound like I’m aiming a little too high. I heard that extracurricular activities were important to universities, and since I already had a few competition prizes under my belt, I thought of volunteering. I knew my parents would likely refuse, since they barely allow me to go out with my friends, let alone by myself.
At this point, I feel like there’s nothing I can really do, except study until my mind I can’t anymore, I guess. If I couldn’t transfer schools, I practically begged them to let me have a tutor or sign up for cram school, but they refused that idea as well. I’m just starting to get really frustrated with myself (and kind of disappointed?) and now I’m wondering if I should just give up on the whole studying abroad thing and just continue as I’ve been doing