Apathetic About a Class, Need Advice

baktrax
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:58:11 +0000

Have you looked over your old exams and gone over why you go the grades you did? Was it because you were rushing through the exam and made careless errors? Was it because you didn’t understand the concepts? Misunderstood the questions? Did you have trouble applying the concepts to new problems that you hadn’t seen before? Are you just overthinking all of the questions?

Going through the exams (maybe even with the professor or a TA if you can arrange a meeting) may help you figure out where you should be focusing your efforts.

Another thing you may want to consider is forming a study group with other students. Even if you don’t study well with other students, explaining the concepts to other people can really help you learn the material and helps you figure out what sorts of areas you don’t understand as well. The understanding of a subject that you get from teaching it is very different than the understanding you get from just practicing problems and memorizing concepts.