Part of you may think this is beyond your control - if your students want to party all night and fall asleep during lectures what can you do? Well quite a bit actually, let’s see how to get those grades going up.

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Your student’s pass rate is shown at the End of year Awards.

How to improve student grades in TPC¶

A lot of the time improving your campus level is directly affected by the standard of your students and the grades they are achieving. Having said that, this is directly affected by the standard of teaching and facilities you are offering them to learn in. Sort of a vicious circle really.

Several factors all add together to help improve a student’s grade - are they happy and how happy? What are the teaching facilities like and how good are the teachers actually providing the course?

This is all intrinsictly linked to finances obviously enough, if you pay for better teachers and the like then grades will improve, so it all comes down ultimately to how you manage your finances in the first place.

Private Tuition¶

Early on in the game, you are introduced to Private Tuition - you can build a Private Tuition room and assign a Teacher with Private Tuition skills to it. By selecting failing students and then the Chalkboard icon below their stats you can force them into Private Tuition to stop them flunking and tip the odds a little more in your favor.

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Keeping the attention of students during lectures has been a problem teachers have faced throughout the ages.

Upgrading Classrooms¶

All classrooms (and this includes the Lecture Theatre) can be upgraded. Pile as many of the items the room suggests in there that you can afford without breaking the bank. The more that is in there, the better the room rating, and ultimately the better the grades it helps produce from the students.

Later on in the game, once you have got to the point where you can train your mechanics to carry out upgrades, items such as the lecterns in the Lecture Theatre can be upgraded by them and this will improve attention in the lectures, again improving the end grades.

Short supply¶

A lack of facilities is very damaging to a student’s happiness and well-being and can accept their grade dramatically. For example, if you don’t have enough sleeping space in your dorms your students might be more tired than they should be and this will have an obvious knock-on effect.

So, as you can see, there isn’t just a single thing you can do to improve grades, it’s a sum of all parts and a lot of things to keep on top of. Good luck there.

Expelling Students¶

If all else fails and you simply cannot get a grade up yuo always have the harsh (but fair!) option of expelling a student. THis may seem to go against the grain of what you are trying to achieve, but we foudn there is sometimes no option. While playing on Spiffinmoore you need an average grade of B+ to get the one-star challenge but the time you have reached Level 15 (another requirement) you will have som many students it is very difficult to maintain that average grade as some will be complaining, some will be ill and some will be unhappy, seemingly not matter what you do. At this point we took the Ban Hammer to all Students with a C and Below and thus raised the average grade almost overnight to B+. Cheese? Maybe.