CHAPTER 4

Difficulties of a Student in Passing Grade 10 in Divine Word College of

Legazpi for the SY: 2015-2016

This chapter presents the findings, analysis and interpretation of the data

regarding this study entitled “Difficulties of the students in passing grade 10 in

Divine Word College of Legazpi for the SY: 2015 – 2016.”

1. What are the common problems encountered by Grade 10 students?

Based on our survey we’ve conducted, most of the respondents’ problem is

about bullying that are half of the respondents being bullied that is shown in

table1.1. Also, the respondents are afraid to make a mistake that’s why they

don’t have confidence, shown in table 1.9.

2. What are the causes and effects of this problem?

According to the results of our survey, table 2.3 shows that parents

role/disciplinary action can affect the grades of the students. Too much school

activities can also affect the respondent’s grades shown in table 2.4. In the table

2.7 most of the respondents said that the gadgets have a bad effects on their

grades. Also, in table 2.9 most of the respondents agreed that lack of sleep can

affect the grades. That’s why some of them get a low grades.
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3. How to survive grade 10?

From our results in our survey, table 3.1 most of the respondents want to study

well to improve their grades and based on table 3.6 respondents like to pass all

assignments/projects in order to get high grades. This is the thing needed in

order to survive or pass grade 10.

Table A

Age Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

15 18 18%
16 75 75%
17 7 7%
TOTAL N = 100 100%

Based on Table A, 75% of the respondents are age 16, 18% of the respondents

has an age of 15 and a 7% of 17 years old.

Table B

Gender Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Male 51 51%
Female 49 49%
TOTAL N=100 100%

According to Table B, 51% of the respondents are male and 49% of the

respondents are female.

Table C

Sections Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

St. Damasus 20 20%
St. Damiane 20 20%
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St. Daniel 20 20%

St. Denis 20 20%
St. Dominic 20 20%
TOTAL N = 100 100%

In Table C shows that all sections and respondents are equal. 20% from St.

Damasus, 20% from St. Damiane, 20% from St. Daniel, 20% form St. Denis and

20% from St. Dominic.

I. What are the common problems encountered by Grade 10 students?

TABLE 1.1

Do you encounter bullying?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 19 19%
NO 29 29%
SOMETIMES 50 50%
ALWAYS 2 2%
TOTAL N=100 100%

29% of the respondents says that no one bullies them, 50% of the respondents

say that sometimes they encounter bullying while 19% of the respondents says

that they encounter bullying and 2% of the respondents says that they encounter

bullying always. It is shown on Table 1.1.

TABLE 1.2

Do you forget to pass your assignments/project?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 23 23%
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NO 16 16%
SOMETIMES 58 58%
ALWAYS 4 4%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Based on the survey we’ve conducted 58% of the respondent responds that they

forget to pass their assignments/projects sometimes only. While 23% respond

yes that they forget to pass assignments/projects, 16% respond that they don’t

forget to pass their assignments/projects, and 4% respond that they always

forget to pass their assignments/projects as shown on Table 1.2.

TABLE 1.3

Do you forget to study before the quarterly exam?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 28 28%
NO 24 24%
SOMETIMES 49 49%
TOTAL N=100 100%

It shows in Table 1.3 that 49% of the respondents answers that sometimes they

forget to study before quarterly exam while 24% answer no and 28% answered

that they forget to study before quarterly exam.

TABLE 1.4

Do you have a bad study habit?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 32 32%
NO 23 23%
SOMETIMES 48 48%
TOTAL N=100 100%
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Table 1.4 presents that 48% of the respondents answered that sometimes they

have a bad study habits, 32% answered yes and 23% answered that they don’t

have bad study habits.

As presented in Table 1.5, 36% of the respondents sometimes play computer

games after school, 32% says yes, 28% says no and 5% say that they always

play computer games after school.

TABLE 1.5

Do you play video games/computer games after school?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 32 32%
NO 28 28%
SOMETIMES 36 36%
ALWAYS 5 5%
TOTAL N=100 100%

TABLE 1.6

Do you commit absence regularly?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 24 24%
NO 76 76%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Table 1.6 confirmed that 76% of the respondents commit absence and 24% say

that they don’t commit absence regularly.

TABLE 1.7
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Do you come to school late regularly?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 45 45%
NO 55 55%
TOTAL N=100 100%

A total of 55% of the respondents didn’t come to school late regularly and a total

of 45% say that they come to school late regularly as shown in Table 1.7

TABLE 1.8

Do you find it hard to ask the teacher about the topic you did not understand?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 30 30%
NO 19 19%
SOMETIMES 51 51%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Table 1.8 presented that 51% of the respondents sometimes they find it hard to

ask the teacher about the topic they don’t understand, 30% says that they find it

hard and 19% say that they did’nt find it hard to ask the teacher about the topic

they didn’t understand.

TABLE 1.9

Are you afraid to make mistakes?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 43 43%
NO 23 23%
SOMETIMES 34 34%
TOTAL N=100 100%
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A total of 43% of the respondents answered that they are afraid to make

mistakes, 34% answered sometimes and a total of 23% of the respondents are

not afraid to make mistakes as shown in Table 1.9.

TABLE 1.10

Do you participate in discussion?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 44 44%
NO 11 11%
SOMETIMES 40 40%
ALWAYS 5 5%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Table 1.10 confirms that 44% of the respondents say that they participate in

discussion, a total of 40% say that they just participate sometimes, 11% say that

they don’t participate in discussion and 5% say that they always participate in

discussion.

II. What are the causes and effects of this problem?

TABLE 2.1

Do your friends have bad effects on your studies?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 18 18%
NO 41 41%
SOMETIMES 41 41%
TOTAL N=100 100%
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It shows in Table 2.I that 41% of the respondents disagreed that their friends

have bad effects on their studies also 41% of them said that sometimes it has

bad effects on their studies, while 18% of them said that their friends have bad

effects on them.

TABLE 2.2

Does your classmates' attitude towards you affect your studies?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 25 25%
NO 31 31%
SOMETIMES 44 44%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Table I - A 5 presents that 38% of the students said that the role/disciplinary

action of their parents doesn’t affect their grades, 34% of them said it sometimes

affects them and 28% of them said that it does.

TABLE 2.3

Do parents' role/disciplinary action affect your grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 38 38%
NO 25 25%
SOMETIMES 37 37%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Table 2.3 presents that 38% of the students said that the role/disciplinary action

of their parents affect their grades, 37% of them said it sometimes affects them

and 25% of them said that it didn’t affect their grades.

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45% respondents said that school activities affects their grades, 42% of them

said it sometimes affects their grades and 13% of them said it does, as shown in

Table 2.4.

TABLE 2.4

Does too much school activities affect your grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 45 45%
NO 13 13%
SOMETIMES 42 42%
TOTAL N=100 100%

TABLE 2.5

Do you find it hard to ask the teacher about the topic you did not understand?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 34 34%
NO 22 22%
SOMETIMES 44 44%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Table 2.5 shows 44% of the students in question 2.5 says that it is sometimes

hard to ask about the topic to teacher, 34% of them says that it is hard to ask,

while 22% of them said it is not hard to ask the teacher.

As presented in Table 2.6 48% of the respondents said that teenage love doesn’t

affect their grades, 27% of the respondents said that sometimes it affects their

grades and 25% respondents said that teenage love affects their grades.
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TABLE 2.6

Does teenage love affect your grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 25 25%
NO 48 48%
SOMETIMES 27 27%
TOTAL N=100 100%

TABLE 2.7

Do gadgets have bad effects on your grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 35 35%
NO 31 31%
SOMETIMES 34 34%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Specifically Table 2.7 says 35% of the respondents said that gadgets have bad

effects on their grades, 34% of them said that sometimes gadgets have bad

effects on their grades and 31% of them said that it does.

In Table 2.8 says that majority of the respondents say they are comfortable in

their classroom atmosphere, 18% say no and 26% say that sometimes they are

comfortable in their classroom atmosphere.

TABLE 2.8

Are you comfortable with your classroom atmosphere?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 56 56%
NO 18 18%
SOMETIMES 26 26%
TOTAL N=100 100%
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TABLE 2.9

Does lack of sleep affect your grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 43 43%
NO 28 28%
SOMETIMES 29 29%
TOTAL N=100 100%

Table 2.9 confirms that 43% of the students say that lack of sleep affects their

grades, 29% say that they are sometimes affected by this and the remaining 28%

say that lack of sleep didn’t affects their grades.

Table 2.10 presented that 48% of the respondents say that they pass their

homework and projects on time, 40% say that they pass their homeworks and

projects sometimes and 12% answered no.

TABLE 2.10

Do you pass your homework and projects on time?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

YES 48 48%
NO 12 12%
SOMETIMES 40 40%
TOTAL N=100 100%

III. THE THINGS NEEDED IN ORDER TO SURVIVE GRADE 10

TABLE 3.1

What do you do in order to improve your grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Study Well 61 52.59%
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Self-Study 23 19.83%
Listen Well to the
31 26.72%
Teacher
Participate in discussion 1 0.86%
TOTAL N=116 100%

A total of 52.59% of the respondents answered that it was easier to improve their

grades if they study well, 26.72% by listening well to the teacher, 19.83% say

that it’s easier if they do self-study and 0.86% answer that it’s easier to improve

their grades when they participate in discussion as shown in Table 3.1.

TABLE 3.2

What do you do in order to improve your study habits?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Time Management 51 45.54%
Self-Discipline 42 37.5%
Goal Setting 19 16.96%
TOTAL N=112 100%

Table 3.2 presented that 45.54% of the respondents said that it’s easier to

improve study habits by practicing time management, 37.5% say that it’s easier if

they practice self-discipline and 16.96% say that it’s easy if they practicing goal

setting.

According to Table 3.3, 42% of the respondents get their motivation from their

parents for them to get high grades is from gifts while, 34% is from words and

the remaining 24% is from pressure.

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TABLE 3.3

What encouragement or motivation do you usually get from your parents for you

to get high grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Gifts 42 42%
Words 34 34%
Pressure 24 24%
TOTAL N=100 100%

TABLE 3.3.1

Does this encouragement work?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Yes 65 82.28%
No 14 17.72%
TOTAL N = 79 100%

A total of 82.28% respondents said that the encouragement works, while the

remaining 14.72% of students say that it doesn’t according to Table 3.3.1.

TABLE 3.4

How much time do you spend on studying at home?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

3 Hours 26 26%
2 Hours 22 22%
1 Hour 29 29%
Minutes 9 9%
None 14 14%
TOTAL N=100 100%
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29% of the respondents say that they spend 1 hour on studying at home, 26%

spend 3 hours, 22% spend 2 hours, 14% don’t spend time studying at home and

9% spend minutes as presented in Table 3.4.

TABLE 3.4.1

What grades do you get?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Low 16 19.51%
High 11 13.41%
Average 55 67.07%
TOTAL N=82 100%

Table 3.4.1 shows that a total of 67.07% of the respondents get average grades,

19.51% of the respondents get low grades and 13.41% respondents get high

grades.

Table 3.5 states that 30.95% respondents spend time on using gadgets, 28.57%

spend time on studying, 19.84% spend time on using computer, 11.90% spend

time on watching T.V. shows/programs and an 8.73% spend time on reading e-

books/novels.

TABLE 3.5

Which of these do you spend your time the most at home?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Studying 36 28.57%
Reading E-books/Novels 11 8.73%
Watching TV
15 11.90%
shows/Programs
Using computer 25 19.84%
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Using gadgets 39 30.95%

TOTAL N = 126 100%

TABLE 3.6

What do you do in order to get high grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Passing all
67 63.81%
projects/assignment

Scanning notes everyday 7 6.67%

Advance reading 8 6.35%

Self Study 22 20.95%

Participate in discussion 1 0.95%

TOTAL N = 105 100%

According in Table 3.6, 63.81% respondents pass all projects/assignment in

order to get high grades, 20.95% do self studying, 6,67% of them scan their

notes everyday, 6.35% of them do advance reading and 0.95% of them

participate in discussion.

TABLE 3.7

Do you make a Goal Setting?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Yes 74 74%
No 26 26%
TOTAL N = 100 100%
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Table 3.7 confirms that 74% of the respondents said that they make a goal

setting while 26% said that they don’t make a goal setting.

TABLE 3.8

Do you study well?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Yes 74 74%
No 26 26%
TOTAL N = 100 100%

As presented in Table 3.8, 74% of the respondents say that they study well and

26% say that they don’t study well.

TABLE 3.9

Do you aim to be the top in your class?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Yes 48 48%
No 52 52%
TOTAL N = 100 100%

A total of 52% respondents didn’t aim to be top in their class and 48% of them

aim to be the top in their class as shown in Table 3.9.

TABLE 3.10

Does having a tutor affect your grades?

Response Frequency (F) Percentage (%)

Yes 49 49%
No 51 51%
TOTAL N = 100 100%
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Table 3.10 confirms that 51% of the respondents disagreed that the tutor affect

their grades and 49% of them agreed that having a tutor affect their grades.