APP: PREDICTS GRADES, PASS OR FAIL?

 We all generally get anxious when our exam result is to be disclosed..

Can you imagine a phone with a phone app that predicts your result like whether you will be pass or fail?

Researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of Texas at Austin developed an app smartGPA that automatically predicts college students' grade point average based on their cellphone data that tracks their study, party and other habits.

We all know ways to improve our GPA(grade point 

average).we all know about the amount of time we spend in 

watching a movie or sleeping or any other task, but now our

 smartphones can do the same for us

This Dartmouth new app can track student behavior and predict their GPAs to within a tenth of a point based solely on the info from their smartphones.

This app uses gps and wifi data for all parts of the college and tracks you when you are in class in canteen or library and then using your location data, this app predicts what you are actually doing and tracks your studying, sleeping, socializing, physical activity, class attendance, and even your stress levels, to get a picture of how you're doing.

 It can then predict your classroom performance without knowing anything previously about your talents, your IQ, your grades, your SAT scores, or anything else

The app's data – gathered via monitoring all smartphone use from physical activity to time spent sleeping – is analysed via machine learning algorithms and, once periodic self reporting from users is factored in, is unnervingly accurate in predicting grades.

This shows that it is your behaviour not your talent that will

 predict your academic success. their is no such thing as 

great talent without great willpower.

The app and its supporting research underline that there are certain behavioural patterns that have a direct impact on a student's grade point average – such as stress levels, time devoted to social interaction and sleep cycles – and these behaviours can be quantified via a smartphone, automatically, without need for direct user input. 

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There may be few people who will not like this app and this includes me too. As I don’t want my smartphone to track my every move. Though it is for my own good, but please there is something called privacy

It isn't hard to say that if we get more sleep, more exercise, go to class, skip the party, and study more that we'll get good grades. he limitation to this going global, of course, is that for now the app is tuned to Hanover. If you took the same app to Cambridge or Palo Alto you'd have to reprogram it for the locations there.

The good news is that if the app recognises behaviour that could negatively impact on the student's average, it can offer alerts and advice on how to turn things around.