My struggles with getting A's

baktrax
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 21:56:41 +0000

Just to be clear, I’m not that bad at taking exams. Am I at the top 10% of exam taking at my university? I don’t think so. I just been frustrated with my inability to approve my exams AVERAGE above a 90%.I can’t tell you how easy it really is to score below that mark. Being that their are usually not that many questions on exams, it only take messing up on one or two questions before you noticed that you didn’t reach your goal.

Getting just below a 90% isn’t anything to scoff at, as I’m sure others have told you. It can be frustrating when you aren’t able to get the scores you want to, especially if you were very successful in high school. Looking for strategies to do better may be helpful to you. Have you looked critically at your old exams to see why you lost points (perhaps, going over them with your professor may help)? Was it silly mistakes or did you just not understand the material? Was it the types of questions they asked? Or was it that you studied the wrong material? Working harder is not always the answer. Have you talked to your professors about recommendations for what you should be doing to improve your grades? If it’s silly mistakes, then double-checking your work may help. If it’s running out of time, then coming up with strategies to work faster may help. If it’s not being used to the types of questions they ask, extra practice may help. Etc etc. Figuring out what the problem is will help you do better. If test taking is not the issue, then it may just be that you don’t know the material quite at the level that professors expect you to, and that’s something you can get help with.