I got a C in calc ab and I have to admit I’m struggling this first quarter of my 11th grade year which I have 4 Aps and 3 honors classes. In my school I have an A & B day kind of schedule and my A day is significantly more challenging than my B day. I play varsity basketball and practice everyday so I don’t usually start my homework till around 6:30 everyday, on some days when I have a game I don’t start my homework until 9:30 at night. I feel like I don’t have enough time to do my Calc and Lang homework which are the only two classes I’m struggling in. I do all my work that I can possibly do on the weekends. Is getting a C in calc for the first quarter going to effect me when I apply for college. I’m an A and B student and I’m yet to take the SAT but I scored in the 95 percentile on PSAT what are my chances of getting into a good school and will a C in calc hurt me?
Are you using all your time? Can you do homework on the bus?
Can you get a tutor?
I got a C in Calc my senior year and I still got into many competitive schools. You’ll be ok
Depends on your intended major.
I agree with @bopper - go to tutoring and use all of your downtime for homework even it’s just a part of a question here or there.
This is at least a part of your problem. The best strategy for learning is to distribute it over time. The way learning works is you learn something and then immediately start forgetting it. If you practice it again a day or two later you strengthen the concepts as you re-learn them. By the time a week goes by the learning of new concepts is probably gone. Think about basketball; you know the plays and how to shoot, and yet you keep practicing the same things. Why? Because if you didn’t performance would deteriorate. Learning math uses the same type of neurons and follows the same rules; you need regular practice to be able to do it well.
While it doesn’t sound like you have a lot of free time, it still sounds like you could put in 2 hours every weeknight which should be more than sufficient. I suspect you are not studying effectively. Read the book “Make it Stick” that talks about what is known about learning, with lots of tips for HS and college kids. You’ll learn about ideas like self-testing and distributed practice.
Practice is more than just going over the questions in your calc book a few times. In fact you should always be working on fresh questions. Get a book like the “Calculus Problem Solver” (it’s similar to a SAT review book but focuses on calculus, there are similar books for many topics). Go to the chapter that matches what your class is studying that week, cover the answers, start working. When you can readily solve problems in practice you will readily solve them on tests and the grades will take care of themselves. This is self-testing.