Job performance

A Sim's performance reflects how well he or she is doing at work or school. The performance meter can be found in the career section.

The Sims
Indications of performance are rather basic in The Sims. Children have grades. Adults have five job performance levels, labeled Dismal, Poor, Average, Good, and Excellent. There are no performance bars or meters, as there are in later games.

The Sims 3
One performance meter that is always there is the mood performance bar. It reflects a Sim's mood more accurately than the mood meter. Other performance meters will exist based on what the Sim's current job is, e.g. a student will have a homework performance meter. The performance meter uses 7 different smilies to represent a Sim's performance. Their order is, from left to right:
 * Horrifying
 * Foul
 * Bad
 * Normal
 * Great
 * Excellent
 * Outstanding.

Factors that affect performance
There are different factors that affect the performance meter. The always-present meter, for example, is heavily affected by a Sim's mood and moodlets. Other performance meters are affected by what they do and what they should do but didn't, like homework.