Hey Antonia,

I looked over your code and found where you were going wrong.

I'll post a comparison below to give you a better idea of what went wrong.

First, here is your code, after being formatted:

<?php

$studentOneName = 'Dave';
$studentOneGPA = 3.8;

$studentTwoName = 'Treasure';
$studentTwoGPA = 4.0;

//Place your code below this comment

if ($studentOneGPA == 4.0) {
  echo "$studentOneName made the Honor Role.\n";
} else {
  echo "$studentOneName has a GPA of GPA.\n";
}

if ($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) {
  echo "$studentTwoName made the Honor Role.\n";
} else {
  echo "$studentTwoName has a GPA of GPA.\n";
}

?>

The result is a super descriptive error message saying "Bummer! fail".

This is your code, formatted and corrected to pass:

<?php

$studentOneName = 'Dave';
$studentOneGPA = 3.8;

$studentTwoName = 'Treasure';
$studentTwoGPA = 4.0;

//Place your code below this comment

if ($studentOneGPA == 4.0) {
  echo "$studentOneName made the Honor Role";
} else {
  echo "$studentOneName has a GPA of $studentOneGPA";
}

if ($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) {
  echo "$studentTwoName made the Honor Role";
} else {
  echo "$studentTwoName has a GPA of $studentTwoGPA";
}

?>

There were three, possibly four, errors in your code.

The most major issue was that the challenge wanted you to echo out the line "<student> has a GPA of <GPA>" if the student did not have a GPA of 4.0. In your supplied code, the line would echo "<student> has a GPA of GPA.".

To correct this, the corrected code uses the $studentOneGPA and $studentTwoGPA variables to pull their actual GPA into the echoed statement.

The second issue was trying to use periods at the end of the sentences, which I can completely understand since I do this a lot as well. It just feels right :D

The challenge parser is really finicky about things though, and since we weren't asked to add periods, it will evaluate to a failing attempt.

The corrected code removed the periods.

The third issue is much like the second issue, with the addition of newline escape characters when they were not requested by the challenge. This is another error I've made myself as the code will smash the statements together without them, and this feels wrong.

However, the code editor doesn't feel the same way, so extra characters result in a failed attempt.

The fourth issue may not have been an issue at all, since it's difficult to tell how your code was formatted initially due to how the forums display code that is simply written out in a post, but it is possible you were also failing due to how you structured your if blocks.

Take a look at where the opening and closing braces of your if block is if you continue to experience difficulties, as the parser is really picky about this particular challenge when it comes to where you place the braces.

The above code will work if all else fails, and your code shows that you understand the concepts being taught here, so at this point it's just a matter of providing the code the way the parser wants :D

Good luck with the course!