How to get higher grades for pharmacy school?

aldfig0
Thu, 12 Feb 2015 03:59:08 +0000

Are you sure you actually know the material? Going through lecture slides or skimming through problems and thinking to yourself “I get this; it makes perfect sense” doesn’t count. Get some problems, preferably from a previous midterm or final, that you haven’t seen the solutions to before. Try to solve them without the use of any outside aids like notes/books/internet. Then afterwards look at the solutions and compare them to yours - have you done this to verify that you actually know the material?

As for obtaining older tests, if the professors only give you tests with the answers included then ask someone else to remove the answers for you so that you can use them as practice. You can also browse through the schedule of classes to look at class websites for previously offered classes for more test practice (if they don’t restrict access/require a password/delete files).

Have you been making use of the tutoring resources available to you?
Biology:
https://sites.google.com/a/uci.edu/biotutor/
General Chemistry:
http://www.ucigcpt.com/
Organic Chemistry:
http://sites.uci.edu/ochemtutors/
Physics:
http://www.physics.uci.edu/tutoring-schedule
All subjects ($100 per class per quarter):