I can not for the life of me figure out why I am doing so poorly on tests this semester. I have been doing TERRIBLE!!!!! I have very high expectations for myself and my grades and it seems no matter what I do this semester I can’t get the grades I want. You would think that I am not studying the way I should but studying is literally all I do all day long.
Is there anyone else that is having an “off” semester? My in-laws told me that when they were in college they had an “off” semester every now and then but geez come on.
So far I have managed to keep a 3.85 GPA and I am really getting scarred that this semester is going to bring it down. Now, I would love to carry a 4.0 but I think with being a 40 year old wife and mother of 3 I’m not doing too bad….that is until I encountered this semester. Maybe I need to re-think taking all my classes on-line and come to campus some of the time.
Does anyone else have mixed classes? If so, which do you prefer? I would think on campus wouldn’t require quite as much time as on-line but I could be fooling myself too. I think maybe I could retain a little more if I were to sit through some of the lectures instead of trying to do it all on my own. Doing all classes on-line requires tons of dedication and LOADS and LOADS of reading and teaching yourself. Please don’t misunderstand me, I do think classes on campus require time and dedication and you most definitely have to study but do you have to study as much???? So I guess I am both gripping and asking.
I have a “C” in history right now and I have NEVER had a “C”. I probably study more for that class than the rest of my classes put together but still can’t manage to do anything the way the instructor wants it. Maybe that is just the way some instructors are but this is defiantly my first and I sure hope my last!!!!
Talking about my grade in history leads me back to an earlier blog I posted about the importance of these classes. What am I going to use in my Criminal Justice degree that I need to know what happened in 1492??? Can anyone shed some light on that for me because I am just not seeing it right now? I start studying for that class and my eyes glaze over because I just don’t get it. I could have very possibly just answered my own question. Maybe I’m not doing so well because I simply can’t understand the importance and quite frankly do not care what happened in the 1400’s.
I totally understand where your coming from. I often feel the same way, but I just keep persevering through!! It will get easier! Good luck with history and everything else :)
ReplyDeleteI'm horrible at history and am not a big fan of taking classes that seem useless to my degree. My history professor was hard to please as well - I also failed Eng 102 last semester because I did not have the same opinion as the professor after reading some selections of literature. In short, I fully understand where you are coming from. This semester has been so much better - especially in this English class where the quality of writing matters much more than the opinion it is expressing.
ReplyDeleteA few things I have found to help out with the classes that I dread are to read the reading assignments out loud and read at a slightly faster pace than you normally would - both of these techniques help people (especially highly visual or audible learners) focus on what they are reading instead of thinking about other things and also helps the brain retain the information because it is not only seen, but heard so both sides of the brain are getting the information. I would also try to answer all of the questions at the end of the chapter in preparation as well as reading the summary just before taking quizzes and exams.
I wish you luck and let you know that no matter how hard it seems, you can do it and you will be all the better for it.