Bad grades in college

taxguy
Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:19:47 +0000

Here are two more points that I accidentally left out:


If you are studying math, science or engineering, do all the problems in the book, especially the word problems. For some reason, college professors like to take problems out of the textbook that were not assigned for homework and put them into the test. If you do them all, you will be well-prepared.
Take advantage of the resources available to you: Today, many school have writing centers, tutors and other resources. Take advantage of these. Have all your papers reviewed for grammar and punctuation. There is little excuse for not doing reasonably well in freshmen English with all of these services. Moreover, you should have all papers reviewed for grammar regardless of the subject. I can tell you that as a business school professor, I down graded kids who presented sloppy papers or papers with poor grammar. Don’t think that because you are writing a history or business paper that the professor won’t count poor writing against you!