How to Do Well in Physics?

Koalass
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:05:23 +0000

I’m very confused by the conflicting advice I’ve been given. My math/physics teachers have always told me that one can’t do well in those classes by mostly reading the material, but good grades come from doing the problem sets; I mean, that’s usually what the homework is, isn’t it? And so I try to do both the reading and the problem sets. If I don’t spend enough time on the reading, the problem sets get more difficult. On the other hand, if I spend too much time on the reading, I have less time on doing the problems.

But again, the midterm I was talking about last quarter only covered 3 weeks of material (three chapters) yet I still failed it even with way more than 10 hours (more like 15) studied per week. It’s not hard to see that my hope has withered at this point.