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Make sure you do your HW (best if you do it without Chegg), that 5% can go a long way at the end, I would say that 15 units doesn't mean much to me because some 3 unit classes are WAY harder than 4 unit classes depending on the professor sometimes. Understand your classes and have an idea of what class you feel like will be your biggest challenge and put that in the middle of your priority list. Take the easiest class and put it at the top and your medium difficulty classes last. I say this because if you focus on just your hardest class then you may lose out on some free GPA points in your easiest class. For example, if you have a hard engineering class and an easy public speaking class that are both 3 units, getting a B in both is the same as getting an A in public speaking and a C in the engineering course. Also for time management, don't schedule your day minute to minute, if your friends stop you to join in on their ultimate frisbee game, live in a way that you don't have to say no, it's college, enjoy it as much as you can! If you really want a good guide on this, here's a book that I read and that helped me a ton. It's not about study-heavy students who gets A through brute force studying, it's about high-functioning, party-going, life-living students who get straight A's (be like them):

How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less

Maybe I’m overly optimistic but this seems like a pretty reasonable email?

A student said they were struggling and asked for a specific thing? You don’t have to give them a study guide but after years of studying a subject, maybe suggest your own personal methods.

But since teaching is such a huge thing, it helps to include this kind of information on the syllabus and review it syllabus day. I include, under my testing an exams, information on what I’m looking for when I give an assignment. I also provide a grading rubric before the assignment and give them the grade on that same grading rubric. That way they can use the grading criteria to guide their study.

There’s also information on tutoring centers and on campus study groups.

I also include this resource textbook that’s optional but usually pretty cheap ($10), if not free online. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MAHBYQ?ref=KC_GS_GB_US

I have never even read this book. BUT looking through the table of contents, and flipping through the pages, there’s stuff related to mind maps, pacing, stuff like that.

So yea even though professors aren’t inherently experts on teaching, providing something like this will still give your students a resource that’s independent from you.

Netjes! (And the book: How to be a straight A student will help you so you don't have to start the day before the test ;) Wish I'd read that when I was still in school!)

https://www.amazon.com/How-Become-Straight-Student-Unconventional-ebook/dp/B000MAHBYQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

Oh wow! I'm reading this book called "How to Become a Straight A Student" and it gives this exact advice of making your own questions from the text and then answering them for studying. So it must be good advice!

Learn how to take "good" notes in class and you'll be more interested in staying awake. This book, How to Become a Straight-A Student, has instructions.

Also bring brain snacks (actual food/drink) to class so you have backup energy boosts to aid your focus.

Here is everything you need to know.

The point I took away was study smart.

Use time between classes to study. Don't wait until the evening when you are drained of energy and more likely to slack off.

Find isolated study locations and turn off ALL distractions. A short, focused study session will produce more and faster learning than a long session riddled with distractions. Implement the pomodoro technique if it is useful to you (there are phone apps for this).

Besides that he has tons of useful information on note taking, test taking, and related student life activities.

Truthfully it takes a long time to develop good habits. My advice would be to drop out of University since you just started, go to community college for practice. When you can make yourself work 6 days a week every week, transfer back to your university. University is too expensive, to waste even one semester dicking around. Furthermore, you'll miss important information in your fundamental classes which all your other classes will build upon.

If you really don't want to temporarily transfer to a community college then this is what I would do. First, think long and hard about why you are in college, and what you want to get out of it. This is essential, because behavior change is hard and without motivation nothing will work. Then come up with a schedule, and for X hours a day move your self to a room where there is not much to do besides study.

Also, get this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Become-Straight-Student-Unconventional-ebook/dp/B000MAHBYQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1289255608&sr=8-3

Okay, so personally, I went through some really shitty periods in college (barely passing grades), but what saved me was the periods of time I followed this book's advice. (found a pdf too hahaha)

I'm not like saying it's a holy grail. But the books lessons really helped me understand how to form good study habits, especially after coasting through high school. It also really helped me find ways to make your workload more manageable, and one of the better tips is you need to ask what the successful students are doing and follow their habits or tips. It also gave some really helpful tips for time management that I still use today.

Now whether you can manage making these changes for subjects your not even interested in? That's something you should ask your self. Also, are you not interested in them because you're not doing well or because you genuinely have no interest? If it's the former, just focus on on forming new study habits. If it's the latter, I wouldn't necessarily change your major right away, but I'd look to see if there's ANY future class that looks interesting and try to read a bit more about it during break. Is this something you can do? It could have just been those classes that don't excite you (happens with every major). And make sure that next semester you have more classes on your schedule that interest you or have really good professors.

I'll be blunt-- loads of students fuck up the first semester. I saw it with some friends, and they had to climb out of a deeper gpa hole than what you've described. The students that I saw rose above it took it as a lesson and vastly changed their habits going forward.

 

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