I've read a lot of posts here that say if you don't play a Sim through university they will fail their classes, but just as an experiment I had one sim enroll for 3 classes right before rotating to another household. I basically did not play the semester at all other than to do her homework the first time before rotating away. She got an A+ on all 3 classes.I suspect having the responsibility character value trait and the fact that she was already high in the skills in question was sufficient for her to get good grades. Either way, imo, this is useful information....I don't need to feel like I have to play a sim for an entire semester now that I know it isn't as bad as some people have made it out to be.

That’s interesting. I’m curious to know, was it her first or second term, or a more advanced term? The classes seem to require higher skills the closer they get to graduation. I do think skill level has a lot to do with it. I’m just not sure about the responsibility trait (you may be right, it just seems deep for how this game usually functions).

@babajayne, it was her 2nd term. I played out her first term (and she got A+). I'm playing through her 3rd term right now. She will need just 2 more classes to graduate after this term is over and I'm thinking of rotating away from her for that as well, just to see how the final term goes. Worse case scenario is I have to take a class or two over if she does fail.

@Stormkeep Sounds like a good test. Let us know what level her relevant skills are too, if you don’t mind.

The relevent skills for her degree are Fitness, Gardening, and Logic. During that 2nd term she had 9 fitness, 4 gardening and 8 logic.

I find it fun, on the whole, since I take my significant YAs through all at once and have them live in the same Dorm. I do it in three Terms, so that they graduate together and from there are able to begin their lives. I plan on taking seven through, again. The names are all the same, but the Sims (Astrid and Sandi) are NOT Kayleigh's triplet sisters this time. I was vexed that I could hardly tell the cousins apart. Sandi has very dark brown hair and looks very different. Astrid has the Chestnut color hair (lighter brown with reddish tinge to it). She also doesn't look like the Golden family. This should be a hoot.

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babajayne
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
That’s interesting. I’m curious to know, was it her first or second term, or a more advanced term? The classes seem to require higher skills the closer they get to graduation. I do think skill level has a lot to do with it. I’m just not sure about the responsibility trait (you may be right, it just seems deep for how this game usually functions).
JaggidEdje
4 years ago
@babajayne, it was her 2nd term. I played out her first term (and she got A+). I'm playing through her 3rd term right now.

She will need just 2 more classes to graduate after this term is over and I'm thinking of rotating away from her for that as well, just to see how the final term goes. Worse case scenario is I have to take a class or two over if she does fail.
babajayne
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Stormkeep Sounds like a good test. Let us know what level her relevant skills are too, if you don’t mind.
JaggidEdje
4 years ago
The relevent skills for her degree are Fitness, Gardening, and Logic. During that 2nd term she had 9 fitness, 4 gardening and 8 logic.
GalacticGal
Legend
4 years ago
I find it fun, on the whole, since I take my significant YAs through all at once and have them live in the same Dorm. I do it in three Terms, so that they graduate together and from there are able to begin their lives. I plan on taking seven through, again. The names are all the same, but the Sims (Astrid and Sandi) are NOT Kayleigh's triplet sisters this time. I was vexed that I could hardly tell the cousins apart. Sandi has very dark brown hair and looks very different. Astrid has the Chestnut color hair (lighter brown with reddish tinge to it). She also doesn't look like the Golden family. This should be a hoot.
Simmerville
Legend
4 years ago
That's interesting!

I agree that skill level might be essential, as the responsible trait. I assume also the "happy toddler" trait might help, making them build skills faster.

My guess is that many simmers send their student directly from CAS. Even if cheating skills, I think there might be hidden factors that only a sim who lived in game will build. That CAS sims has a bigger chance of failing than sims who grew up in game.

I do play most of my students, but sometimes I left them on their own and they did not get A+ but they did pretty well. That was not for the entire term though, more like the final couple days.
GirafHuntr
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I play rotationally, and when I age up each University class, I take a bunch of their townie classmates, throw them into an empty lot, enroll them all in University, and then evict them back out of the lot. That way I have options for roommates, but also they see their peers around campus as they go through. Interestingly, when I leave these NPCs alone, some of them end up graduating eventually while others fail out. It seems pretty random to me and I don't know if skills or traits influence it.
elliandre
4 years ago
That's interesting. When I rotate during a semester they usually drop down from A+ a few grade points.
JaggidEdje
4 years ago
"Elliandre;c-18085705" wrote:
That's interesting. When I rotate during a semester they usually drop down from A+ a few grade points.

I was actually willing to accept a lower grade, as long as she still got credit for the classes. I don't need every sim I play to graduate 'with honors'. I did find it interesting that she still got such a high grade though. There's got to be some underlying reasons for it being different from what you've experienced.
elliandre
4 years ago
"Stormkeep;c-18085793" wrote:
"Elliandre;c-18085705" wrote:
That's interesting. When I rotate during a semester they usually drop down from A+ a few grade points.

I was actually willing to accept a lower grade, as long as she still got credit for the classes. I don't need every sim I play to graduate 'with honors'. I did find it interesting that she still got such a high grade though. There's got to be some underlying reasons for it being different from what you've experienced.

You only did homework once? Did you send her to any classes? So maybe each semester you only need to do homework once and then you can rotate away and leave them and they will get an A+? That would be nice