Hey all
I have a pretty solid GPA, 3.7 CGPA/3.8 major GPA... but 3-4 of my interviewers brought up the subject of worst grade or why did you get a "blah" in this class. I'm wondering if anyone has advice as to how to approach these questions in the future.
Thanks
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This is a softball question. I did poorly for X reason. I took Y step to resolve X and can demonstrate that I have resolved X because I have now achieved Z tangible result.
Thanks for the response... Do you mind giving an example or two of a legit reason for doing poorly?
you didn't put out
Just don't waffle. Be prepared to say what class/classes you didn't do that great in (Hopefully random non-finance classes, for me I just used Humanities as an example) and just say that you've done well in the relevant classes/the ones you enjoy (Hopefully this is true).
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A few C's is no biggie. What if you BOMBED a math class and did shitty when you retook it??? Can you still point to good/great finance grades?
Why would you ever use that as an example? Just don't bring that up.
Well, obviously I wouldn't bring it up spontaneously, but if they ask me my worst grade then I'm forced to say "F in XYZ class." They'll probably ask if I retook it, then I'm even more screwed - no way to spin a f*ck up that bad.
I could instead say my worst grade was an F in a 1 hour pass/fail class - that's technically true, but it wasn't a "real" class, and it's still tied with the F in the math class, so they'd probably ding me for being deceptive right?
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