Saturday, November 30th, 2086. 8:00 a.m.
Senior Skills Testing Exams and Graduation Advisory Sessions
Minimum skill points to graduate: 18.0
Minimum GPA: 68%
re-takes available: January 25, 2087
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Liza Hathe:
skill points: 26.71
cumulative GPA: 97%
aspiration: knowledge/nerd brain
traits: loner, loves outdoors, practical, daring
Career aptitude test:
Science & Engineering, 75%
Vocational, 75%
Technology Media, 58.3%
Suitable careers: Programming, Software Development, Security Analyst, Handicrafts, Construction, Engineering, Chemistry, Natural Development, Mathematics, Farming Science, Veterinary Medicine
Guidance notes: Liza has terrific grades and a sharp mind, and she excels in independent work. With 5 skills at level 3, and one at level 5, she is likely to get a nice scholarship package, but she should prepare to cover about 40% of the tuition by other means. She is cleared for graduation and she can likely look forward to admission at the school of her choice.
She’d be a great candidate for Sierra Nova University, which has an incredible tech department. Her curious and adventurous mind will thrive in the sciences. She has strong interests in handicrafts, construction, and architecture. She indicates that she wants to stay near home, so she has been informed that a second year transfer is a possibility, too. In the long term, Dresden Arts College may not be a good fit.
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Marcus Sylvester:
skill points: 23.0
cumulative GPA: 95%
aspiration: creativity/writer
traits: creative, jealous, muser, perfectionist, serious
Career aptitude test:
Social Science, 91%
Arts & Culinary, 83%
Communications, 66%
Suitable careers: Journalism, Theater, Fashion Design, Culinary Arts, Art/Music/Food Critic, Politics, Historian, Philosophy, Artist, Writer, Advertising, Politics, Anthropology, Psychology, Graphic Design
Guidance notes: Marcus is a devoted student with a great range of skills. He is cleared for graduation, and his transcript will be competitive among college applicants. He wants to be a writer, and shows aptitude for creative work as well as journalism, which will give him many options in the work force. There will be much available to him. He can expect a modest scholarship package, but should expect to cover about 60% of the tuition on his own.
Marcus appeals to fine arts and has an eye for detail. He is not shy and would do well in front of a crowd and is able to take and give critique. Dresden College would be a good fit with its arts programs, but Sierra Nova might appeal to him for its proximity to the city's cultural centers and its extensive amenities.
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* Reid Morton: attendance & effort failure, first warning
* Luis Talbot: QUARTER FAILED, no credit given
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Sarah gloats a little. "Aw, you failed that programming class? Was that hard? I didn't think it was that bad, you know, being a first year student straight out of high school. A-plus, buddy! Booyah!"
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notes: I used this real life career quiz for my high school seniors this school year. It was fun and very useful!
My first total fail in TS4! Congrats, Luis! lol!
In TS4, nobody cares if teens fail at school or not. But in *my* game, it matters. First warning, a letter is sent home to the parents. Second warning, a parent-teacher conference. Third warning, the social services will get involved.
I like how Reid is staying true to his future self—super smart in test scores, lazy as shit in attendance and effort. 😂
I don't have a rule set for my university failures. Since they're paying to retake the courses again, I don't have a problem with letting them donate more money to my university. (Scholarship students do need to keep certain grades, or else have to pay back the money.) But if they're paying their own way, or if their parents are paying, it's in their best interest to pass. I suppose if their cumulative GPA falls below 68%, they should probably be expelled for not taking it seriously enough. But I imagine a student or parent would want to stop wasting their money long before they reached that point.
My sister bought TS4 and ALL the packs yesterday (actually, she bought half and her boyfriend very kindly bought her the rest) and I was watching her play and you have way more careers than she does! I didn't realise how many you had were either custom or just make believe.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that Liza actually matches pretty well for vet science, despite her last conversation with Riley. Though I guess a good match still doesn't necessarily mean she's interested in it.
I'm glad you explained about the school failure thing, because I was going to ask anyway!
Liza would probably be quite happy to work with animals, but having to deal with all of those pet owners would set off her loner trait and she'd be miserable pretty much forever, lol! Loners in this game aren't just shy, they're like extremely antisocial. So much so that I found a custom trait for "shy/awkward" for many of my other sims, but I kept "loner" for Liza because she has always been truly a little bit antisocial.
DeleteYou know, I really don't have that many custom careers though. Only two (Education and Law), then a sort of non-career placeholder for my "self-employed" sims (business owners and freelance workers). For the rest, I guess I use my imagination a lot, lol! Or a lot of these ideas might be different levels or branches of the same career. Many of our careers have two branches to them.
Thanks for reading and for all your comments! :)
I like your report on how everyone is doing in school! And that career quiz is awesome. I might have to use it for some of my Sims that aren't sure what they should do when they grow up, lol.
ReplyDeleteAw, poor Luis! And Sarah's gloating, lol!
That's exactly why I started using the career tests, because I had no flipping idea what some of them might like to be, lol! I know some simmers have their own personal career tests for these kind of things, but I haven't developed anything like that of my own.
DeleteI like the idea of using the real-life career test... I might try that with my sims. I love how you are super-detailed with their grades. Pre-university I'm just like, he looks like he's going to pass so whatever :) The only person I've ever failed was Melissa and that was more because I wanted her in Cory's household for more than one year.
ReplyDeleteThe detail is purely functional! It stems from being SO FRUSTRATED at having grown adult 20-something year-old sims who have no usable life skills, lol! Because they could go to sim-school every day of their childhood and grow up having learned nothing real, and then you're like, "You can't even cook an unburnt plate of macaroni and cheese!?!" 😂
DeleteSame reason I hate YA-Elder sims straight out of CAS with no skills—it would be super cool if CAS randomized a set of skills for them based on their age and traits out of CAS.
But I also hate to cheat them up in skills they haven't earned. So that's where the schools curriculum comes from and the benchmarks they need to meet to reach a reasonable skill set by the time they graduate. Then my uni curriculums are just an extension of the same system.