<p>Didn’t know what subcategory to put this into, but I thought I could vent a bit on the forums and possibly excite my self confidence with some of your stories…</p>
<p>So I’m a first year at UBC… Good student…</p>
<p>So far I got a 94 in psych, 100 in econ, 80 something in english… and 88 in math… that is before the second mid term (Ps. 80-84 is an A- in Canada, and 85+ is an A, 90+ is A+)</p>
<p>Just had it and failed miserably… questions I’d never seen before… everyone else said that they had failed the exam… and worst of all, the math teacher was smiling the whole way through while tears poured out of children’s eyes…</p>
<p>Anyone got stories about their first shell shock in university?
I’d be glad for you to share, or just give me some positive reinforcement to keep me from slitting my wrists…</p>
<p>don’t feel too bad, if everyone else did horribly, there will likely be a curve or a grade bump…he can’t fail all of you</p>
<p>my first semester of college, I failed my Bio midterm, which was like 30% of my grade. i’m majoring in Chem and neural sci, so i thought i was really stupid for failing bio and considered changing majors…but it turns out I wasn’t studying enough, and i was studying the wrong way (memorizing too much and cramming), so i stuck with it and ended up with an A-, and have done pretty well in all my bio/neuro courses, even though they’ve gotten much harder than that first class. </p>
<p>don’t worry too much, you’re just a first year student and still learning how to study for college tests and adjusting…it’s just 1 test, don’t stress, get help and do better on the next one.</p>
<p>Well the *<strong><em>-shock part of it is… Final worth 50% of the grade coming up and we all know it’s gona be harder… and I actually am studying enough… I know all the concepts cold the questions would make even the best 1st yr math student choke… *</em></strong>ing blows</p>
<p>Well, my real university shell shock was driving back from school and seeing this car crash victim laying on the ground in the middle of the road…</p>
<p>But grade-wise! Last year as the semester was coming to an end I realized just how poorly I was doing in my math class. Somehow it just hadn’t hit me before that. I hadn’t done well on the tests, and we didn’t have homework grades, just test and quizzes. I had gotten lazy, and I realized- to my horror- if I didn’t step it up big time in my study habits I was going to fail. However, not only would I have to retake the class, but if I didn’t pass this would put me behind in taking classes I needed to take the next semester to graduate. I also considered switching programs- even schools- in this situation in hopes of not having to take said math courses. But I was stuck.</p>
<p>And like what’s been said before, I really just needed to change my study habits. I started practicing problems and doing them over and over and over again until I knew I knew the process. What has become really important to me in studying is to make sure you actually <em>know</em> the information. Don’t just have it memorized, but make sure you can go back and apply the information to knew problems and truly understand what’s going on.</p>
<p>Get whatever help you need to pass this class. Study problems and the process of them and do them over and over again. Go to office hours and math labs. Find out why you never saw any of these problems before. Remember that for your next final. Good luck!</p>
<p>I was gonna go to UBC but ended up at U of T. So I have had plenty of shell shock, got a 47 on my chem midterm and the class average was a 50 :(</p>
<p>70 on my first econ midterm. mean was ~75. I stepped it up the next midterm though…I took it yesterday and probably scored in the 90s. I have another midterm 2 weeks from now, and we get to drop our lowest, so hopefully the 70 won’t even matter.</p>