<p>What should I do, I'm failing Math in school?
I go to Palomar college in San Marcos.
I am currently taking Math 60, I failed the course last semester and I am failing it again, I'm not sure what to do, I failed the first test, and now im pretty sure I failed the 2nd test I took today. I'm not sure what do now in my current situation, I'm not even thinking straight. I know I can only repeat a class once and that's it, I am right now retaking it. So if someone can please help me out in my situation or give me some advice on what to do. If I withdraw from the class, I don't know if i can come back and take it again. I feel very depressed, so if anyone can help, It would be appreciative</p>
<p>Have you seen your teacher or tried getting tutored?</p>
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<li><p>Can you withdraw, and not have this semester's attempt held against you? If you cannot withdraw, can you take the class at another school and transfer the credit? (The odds are that you can find an online class at another school, so you are not limited to schools you can get to from where you live now.) If you cannot withdraw, can you take a placement test to get into a higher level math course? I would look into these things, in case this semester is too far gone for you to pass the course.</p></li>
<li><p>Have you been to the instructor's office hours? If you haven't, I suggest that you start, and that you specifically ask for guidance on how to learn the stuff on the first two tests. Math classes tend to be cumulative: if you don't learn the stuff in the first few weeks of class you're not likely to be able to learn the later stuff.</p></li>
<li><p>Have you looked into getting a tutor? Palomar may offer tutoring to all students, either free or for a cost. You can also ask your instructor whether he or she can recommend a tutor, but you would have to pay for that yourself.</p></li>
<li><p>I assume that you are already doing every single problem in the textbook. If those are not enough -- if you are doing them all and still not getting enough practice -- you may want to try to find other problem sets. Your instructor may have some. You may also want to go to the library or the instructor and try to borrow other textbooks for the same course and try to do the problems in those books.</p></li>
<li><p>Do you know at what point you first started not understanding what was happening? You can go back to that point in the book and try to read through slowly again. I'm going to confess to you that I am the sort of person who tends to understand math books, and I suspect that you are not that sort of person. But if you do know where you first got lost, that would at least be valuable information to tell your instructor at office hours or a tutor.</p></li>
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<p>The absolute best thing that you can do is start by going to see your professor during office hours. You need to explain the situation that you are in, make it apparent that you are trying and have been trying, and, ultimately, ask for help. In my experience, professors that know and understand that you are putting in the effort and really trying to learn the material will have some wiggle room. Whereas, if you never show up to class, disrupt the class and don't make it obvious that you want to learn, they simply will disregard your pleas for help. However -- you sound like you really do want to succeed so just tell your prof that! If you are humble, modest and sincere -- they cannot just turn you away. Good luck.</p>
<p>Absolutely see the professor and take advantage of any tutoring sessions that may exist. Probably need to do extra sets of hw problems to reduce test stress.</p>
<p>Please see the professor and meet with him and TAs for tutoring. If the professor knows about your situation, he may cut you some slack and bump your grade to pass just for showing effort in trying to do better in the course.</p>
<p>I haven't had the chance to talk to my professor yet
but i got my test result and i did get a 75 along with some other smart kids in the class
since there were a couple of problems that the teacher didn't teach us in lecture.
But besides that he doesn't drop any of the 5 tests we take, and now my question is if I should drop it and take it again next semester to start fresh and with a tutor next time so I can get a better grade since now if I continue in the current class I will probably most likely end up getting a C and since I failed the class last spring I want to get a really good grade so my transcript will look good.
So what's your guys inputs, it would help me out.
Thanks</p>
<p>You should google dyscalculia - RIGHT NOW. It's "math dyslexia". And you can get help.</p>