The VTA Method has placed a large amount of importance on how to maximize your academic potential. However, I have been talking to some students about what happens to them after they get a bad mark back. Quite of few of my students lose faith and start to self defeat themselves when they get a bad mark back on an assignment or test.
What is the 90% Principle?
One thing that I picked up on with successful students was how they regrouped after a less than satisfactory mark. I’m going to call this the 90% principle. Very simply the 90% principle is a way to look at your marks from a completely different perspective. Instead of looking at marks as adding up to 100%, look at the marks you lose in comparison to your overall mark. Check out the example below.