What is going on with failing classes?

got the same weirdness going on..

my sim is lvl 10 at programming and gaming, so she went in to get a degree in computer engineering.
One of the classes required the programming skill, so I thought for sure she would ace it easily just by taking the classes, doing homework and taking the final.
Another class required mischief which she had no skill in at all before, so I focused more on doing extra work (building skill) on that.
When I called the profs for each class, the one for mischief told me,that she is one of their best students while the one for programming said it be a surprise if she passes at all....this makes no sense to me.
Anyway, she passed all of her classes with an A- GPA for that term, so eff the profs!

But it's confusing af.

"Amapola76;c-17356133" wrote:
I actually came here to find this thread because I was so annoyed about one of my sims. He was a pre-existing sim self-employed as an archaeologist. I wanted to take it easy to test out the pack, so I started him with only one history major course and one archaeology elective. He went on-time to every class, with homework fully complete and all bars full, completed and submitted an outstanding term paper for the history course, and took the final exam for the elective. I had him study for both courses daily; he raised his research and debate skill from zero to level 4, raised charisma and logic skills, and raised archaeology from level 5 to level 6. He also chatted up the professors and had a good relationship level with them, and went to office hours.

And yet he ended up failing the history course and only getting a B in the archaeology elective. I could _maybe_ understand the B in the elective, but in what world would you ever get an F after attending every class, doing all homework, and turning in an outstanding term paper?

Update: I think it's totally random. I had saved two days before the end of term, then exited without saving when I was so disgusted with the failing grade. I went back and played through the last two days of the term without doing anything different*, and ended up with a B and an A+.

Better outcome, but it doesn't bode well for how well this pack was programmed. I guess the moral of the story is, save often, and if you don't like your grades, just go back and gamble on a different outcome. :|

(*He may have had a different meal choice in the cafeteria the last night, I'm not sure.)

If you have the get famous pack I notice fame helps. tried one sim who had none and one who had 5 star .both all skills maxed did assignments but unfamous made an f and was put on academic probation they took same exact classes..

I'm starting experience this and I wasn't before. All skills maxed out, all homework completed, did presentations on time as well as term papers and I end up with a C in the class? What in the world is going on?

Boy, these posts don't speak very well for this game, at least the one's I've read. I admit I haven't read them all, but it makes me not want to play this pack. In sims 2 and 3 my sims were A students. I liked it that way. That's what I did when I was in college. I don't like this business of failing a class and not knowing why.

They really need to make the study progress visible to players, otherwise we won't ever know whether the unexplained Fs are a bug or if we all misunderstand how Sims 4 college works. These posts strongly suggest that it's a bug imo:

"Amapola76;c-17356516" wrote:


Update: I think it's totally random. I had saved two days before the end of term, then exited without saving when I was so disgusted with the failing grade. I went back and played through the last two days of the term without doing anything different*, and ended up with a B and an A+.

"JAYSIMMS2004;c-17372880" wrote:
I'm starting experience this and I wasn't before. All skills maxed out, all homework completed, did presentations on time as well as term papers and I end up with a C in the class? What in the world is going on?

Throwing out a wild guess, might the bug somehow get triggered by calling the professors? Maybe this act clears study all progress after reporting it to the player. I'm thinking so because calling or e-mailing the professors is the only thing I never do and so far in my two uni saves the grades have always reflected the effort my students put in. I'm striving for varied grades that are in-character for my sims, so any Fs I got were perfectly justified for the sim in quesion, never out of the blue.

I don't think so. I've sent several sims through at least one term of university, they've always emailed the professors since that's the only way to judge their progress, and they've all gotten A+ on every course.

My Sim married her roommate and discovered that he didn’t graduate with her because he failed his classes and had a D- average. I was like, “okay” and resolved to get him a good degree so he could come back from it. Did everything- he wrote his term papers, did presentations, homework as soon as he was assigned it... he failed his classes.

I thought it could have been that he moved off campus and the game wasn’t registering him as attending his classes and midterms, but seeing that I’m not the only one with this issue, it’s kind of ???

"Sketch793;c-17382787" wrote:
I don't think so. I've sent several sims through at least one term of university, they've always emailed the professors since that's the only way to judge their progress, and they've all gotten A+ on every course.

So that's not it. Too bad. I'm kinda anxious to catch the bug, too, and knowing what to avoid to not get it would have helped immensely.

I just experienced this and I'm confused and kinda annoyed. My sim did two classes, a mandatory one for Language and Literature and a Wellness elective. He got A+ in the mandatory class and got an F in the Wellness class, despite handing in an outstanding term paper, attending every class and never missing homework. He even emailed the professor to be told he was "passing the class". So how on Earth does that result in an F?