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University while unplayed
Stormkeep
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
I also didn't do any term paper or presentation she may have needed...but I also didn't check if she even needed either of those. That could be a factor, if all of her classes just required homework and taking the final exam and neither of those other tasks.
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It might also count for projects like term papers and presentations, or it might effect other factors, like simulating studying to make up any knowledge gap.
Sims seem to fare better if I play their first term, get them a good grade and then rotate away. Mostly on my return I find they've got an A or B grade. But sometimes I have had them fail.
It seems fairly random to me, but I have to admit I've not taken records of their starting skills, traits etc.
I am a very slow player so I have had one sim try maybe two classes when the pack first came out but I haven’t explored it in a dedicated save. I feel much more confident about playing Uni in a rotational save after reading some posts here.