<p>i am a first year community college student i want to attend NC State for their veterinary program. But i am not sure i will be able to get in due to the fact that i have average scores in my first semester of classes and will most likely have to retake English 111 in the spring. is it still possible for me to be accepted into NC State and anything i can do to better my chances?</p>
<p>It’s hard to say without you defining what “average scores” means. I think failing a class is a very big setback. Show more stats and I can give you more information. </p>
<p>You need to consider college as if it were a job.
Why are you failing English? Do you go to the Writing Center, ask help from tutors, go to office hours with your drafts? Or do you wait till the last two days before the assignement is due and turn in whatever first draft you wrote? Do you do the readings and participate in class? How much time do you dedicate to the class (for a 3 credit class, you should be spending a minimum of 6 hours a week reading and writing, and since you’re in trouble, that number should go to 9-10 hours).
Failing one class then making it up is not the end of the world as long as you know why you failed it and what to do so that you get an A-B grade next semester. What’s more worrisome isn’t that one F, it’s that, apparently, you’re getting “average” grades (which I suppose means C-B grades). You have to treat college as a full-time job. If you have “another” job, it has to be considered the secondary priority - everything in your life has to be centered on college requirements. For instance, you have to record the syllabus’ information in your calendar and program alerts one week before tests and papers are due so that you get it to beep you and remind you o start preparing. The night before a test (or the weekend before a Monday test), you’re not out and about having fun, you’re not watching your favorite drama (you keep it for later as a reward), and you don’t take on an extra shift- you spend it all on studying.</p>
<p>Average scores as in after exams I will have all B’s in my classes for sure except English which I’m not sure what I will make</p>
<p>MYO We have had 3 papers so far and I have passed them all I have gotten help on the 4th and on my final research paper to improve my grade but we have also had 3 exams which I know I have failed 2 and probably the third. We have one left and I have started studying more and am getting help to study. With the last paper exam and final their is 50 percent of the grade left in the class to be gotten. I have asked for help from professor he has instructed me to continue using a website which I have been using to no success to better understand the material</p>
<p>okay, so you’re getting B’s in your other classes - good. Let’s try and see if we can identify the problems and help you solve them.
You have trouble with the papers but you seek help, which is mature (not that many freshmen do, they prefer magial thinking that it’ll get better on its own). Thanks to the tutors, you should have an idea of your main problem.
What do you do wrong on the papers, what do you need to improve in order to improve your grade?
Is that the same thing that’s a problem during the in-class exams?
What is the website? What do you find confusing about it?
Did you attend a low-performing high school, are you a former English Language Learner?</p>
<p>My main issues are grammar and punctuation mainly commas and pro nouns. Yes it is the same problem in tests we have to punctuate sentences and a couple paragraphs correctly. The website is chompchomp.com it’s not do much the website as the exercises on the site. They explain what you done wrong and what you done right but in detail enough for me to understand all parts of the sentence that plays into the specific problem I was asked to fix. My high school had great history and science teachers but has some of the worst math and English teachers in the county they leave or a replaced regularly. English Is my first language and only I don’t have trouble reading just writing grammatically correct papers and correcting punctuation</p>
<p>Bring your papers to the college’s writing center a few days before they’re due. That should take care of it.
For exams, though… there are a few rules that you need to memorize, then apply <em>each time you write</em>, even if it’s on this website, when you’re texting, etc. Just make a systematic effort. It’ll pay off during the final.
The key rules would be:
- A capital letter after a period and for people’s name, language, city, or country.
- I is ALWAYS capitalized.
- A sentence has a subject and a verb (but can have a bunch of other words). subject = who?, verb = action.
- A declarative sentence ALWAYS ends with a period “.” or a semi colon “;”. Your choice!
- A question always ends with a question mark “?”
- if you’re listing three or more things, there’s a comma before the last “and” (a dog, a cat, and a bear. A man, a woman, a girl, and two boys.)
- check irregular verbs and use the preterit/past simple form 99% of the time</p>
<p>This should take care of most mistakes! 
Copy/paste it into a document, print it, and take it with you. Every time you write anything, check every line against these key rules. You should quickly get adept at finding your most common errors, then fixing them… and at some point you’ll fix before they even occur.
Start now, because you don’t have much time to practice before the final!</p>
<p>I took your advice and studied more. I got back my grade for my last paper I wrote and got a 95 and the last quiz which I made a 79 which isn’t the best grade but is better than what I have done in the past. As long as I pass the last 3 assignments I will pass the class and have the potential for a B as 50% of the grade is in the last three assignments. Thank you for helping me to realize my mistakes and what I need to start doing for the remainder of my college life </p>
<p>Ey, that’s excellent! But don’t stop. Keep that list of things to check and check EVERYTHING you write against it, so that, by exam time, you’ll have that so down you won’t even have to think about it!</p>