How to become an A student for transfer?

derrpy
Sat, 20 Sep 2014 03:19:19 +0000

I had a 4.0 at my community college, and I took all the lower division mathematics work. This is what worked for me:
-I stop playing videogames, watching tv shows, etc during the semester, because I found it very difficult to study calculus when I could’ve been playing Dark Souls or watching Breaking Bad.
-I try to spend at least 3-6 hours a day studying. It is always better to study for 2 hours a day over the course of five days than to spend 10 hours studying on the day before the test, especially for math and language classes. You simply need to spend more time letting concepts marinate in your mind as well as putting aside at least half an hour a day for each class to practice problems.
-Make flashcards. You need to commit important definitions and theorems to memory. It’s important to have something to fall back on during tests, especially if you didn’t have time to practice problems; you need to be able to logic your way through problems you’ve never seen every now and again.

Honestly, you seem smart enough; I think you already know what you need to do, but you’re putting it off, which, if true, would be indicative your aforementioned procrastination problem ;)