What should you write in your performance review for achieving 97 percent target?

By the time your performance review is due, it should not be unknown to you that you achieved only 97% of your target. In fact, you should have been aware that you were falling short before the reporting period had ended. As soon as you are aware of an impending shortfall, you should begin investigating and documenting the problems and, most important, the solutions. Some things will be outside of your control, those should be documented. The things within your control, your activities must be seriously scrutinized; these are the things that need solutions. When company rules or policies are involved, recommendations should be discussed with your supervisor.

Now we get to the performance review. If you have done your homework as stated above, your response to the review can be more easily written from the information that you already have at hand. Just use it. Ninety seven percent is very good, but having done your homework, your supervisor should have more confidence in your next reporting period. And you should have more confidence yourself.

If you have not done your homework, your response should read something like, "The target was not met because I have failed to perform due diligence."