Other studies reported anticipation of reward for success, low grade point average, burnout and other reasons as justification for cheating [ 10, 13, 15].
Some of the most studied risk factors for substance use among adolescents and young adults include low grade point average, lack of religiosity, early alcohol use, low self-esteem, psychopathology, poor relationship with parents, lack of social conformity (deviance), sensation seeking, perceived peer drug use, and perceived adult drug use [ 12].
As a geology major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bobby was an excellent hockey player; Pete, an accounting major, graduated from Providence College with the lowest grade point average possible.
The team's image suffered when it was learned that it had recorded the lowest grade point average of any sports program at the university, a cumulative team average that was barely better than a C.
The competition between Miller and MacKenzie never materialized because a low grade-point average kept MacKenzie from enrolling.
And in other chapters, he makes jokes about the low grade-point averages of many college athletes and complains that "big-money college basketball" means that the majority of players don't graduate, and worse, are left "with a sense of entitlement that borders on ridiculous".
The new structure makes use of a combination of mastery learning strategies together with the beneficial effects of small class sizes to address the issues of historically high failure and withdrawal rates and low grade-point averages.
Currently, failure and withdrawal (FDVW) rates in undergraduate mathematics courses across North America and internationally are disappointingly high, ranging anywhere from 30% to as high as 60% [1, 11, 17, 19, 37], and there are very low grade-point averages for the students who do in fact manage to complete the courses [19].
By the end of his freshman year, he claims, he had the lowest grade-point average at Yale. "It takes more effort to do that than to be nonchalant".
The photographs looked like somebody invited a few friends over, dressed them up with whatever was available in his closet, and photographed them with a low-grade point-and-shoot film camera.
At the time, ATO national chief executive Wynn Smiley said that IU chapter members had denied knowing about hazing rituals and didn't acknowledge a low chapter grade point average, according to the AP.
