Apathetic About a Class, Need Advice

thehighandlow
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:50:07 +0000

I’ve tried the whole group studying thing with my second exam, while it really helped me hone on in on the key concepts, it obviously did me no good as far as performance. I’ve looked over my exams with my professor, a lot of it was rushing and careless error and a majority of it is his questions. I think you explained well. The way he constructs some of his questions utilize the concepts in a completely different way than in the way most students, myself included, study the concepts. There is no conceivable way to predict how he is going to apply the concepts and I’ve found that my test time usually dwindles because I have to spend some so much time trying to figure what exactly he’s talking about. Ordinarily I would use the “skip this question and come back to it” approach, but almost every question is like this. Time spent trying to understand these questions eats away at my time left to solve problems, which leads to rushing, which leads to bad grades. Unless he changes the way he constructs questions and uses concepts I really don’t see a way how more studying will do me any good. It hasn’t done me any good so far.