How to become an A student for transfer?

failure622
Sun, 21 Sep 2014 04:17:10 +0000

Well, if you’re cutting class, how do you expect to understand what’s going on? Step 1: Go to class. Step 2: Get some help, maybe go to office hours or tutoring and see if they can get you back on track, or provide you with resources.

Honestly it sounds like you know what your problems are. You’re just looking for some lazy way to get an A without doing work. If you want to do better in classes, the solution is obvious: don’t procrastinate. Do all your homework. Don’t let yourself slack off just because you don’t like the class. Buckle down and study, give yourself short breaks every so often so you don’t die. You’re going to need a better work ethic if you want to succeed at a school like UCLA.

My personal rule (for readings and short assignments I hated) was that I wasn’t allowed to go to bed before I met my goal for the night. Sometimes that meant staying up til 5am writing a lab report, but for me it meant the work got done. The later it gets, the better that reading/essay starts to look. Of course, that only works for short things, the ones you know you can do in few hours if you really focus. For bigger assignments, you just need to have that time management. Make a schedule. Figure out what you need to have done by when in order to get everything done.