Is extra credit necessary for straight A students?

"Nushka;c-18054562" wrote:
If you have parenthood, doing homework also increases values.

I do have parenthood so I guess that's a plus.

"Stormkeep;c-18054563" wrote:
Don't forget that Sims learn from doing. Unless you play with autonomy off they will start to do their homework autonomously and are pretty insistent on doing it....by the time they are A students, at least in my game, the real difficulty is in getting them to NOT do it. Every time I turn around they are trying to go do their extra credit. Buncha nerds.

It's almost the end of Harvestday so they all had the day off but only the two youngest have done their homework autonomously.

The two oldest haven't even touched theirs and I've had them do their homework ceremoniously.

I'll try that from now on and see how it goes.

Kids can get bonus vacation days just like adults if they top their performance meter out and they're already an A student. Which can be useful if you want to take a 5 day trip and don't want to include the weekend for some reason (or you want to take more than one.)

It's usually only noticeable on Long Life/aging off, because Normal (and especially short) don't usually have enough time to top the meter off more than once or twice after the kid hits A

That's a good thing. We usually take mini-vacations on the weekends but I've been thinking about taking a week or two so the days are good to have.

Last weekend there was snow thunderstorm in the mountains so outdoors were off the list for all of Saturday. So that was half of the vacation ruined.

My current Sim managed to get all A's without doing every things project that came his way, nor doing the Extra Credit. He didn't have time as he was busy working on his career. He became a Global Superstar in just ten sim-days while in high school. He still managed to keep that A.

I don't play families often, but when I do, I always make A students do extra credit. I consider it similar to a Type A personality trait. My storylines usually have them being driven to excel, or obsessed with being perfect, or just the kind of kid who loves doing school projects for fun.

I'm sure that you'll work out some great stories however you decide to approach it from now on. :)

My sims always want to do homework on their own, so it’s not necessary to do extra work once you get to the A level, like other simmers said.