<p>I never realized how unprepared I am with a bunch of my classes. I've taken Bio, Chem and Calculus, in my high school, and aced all 3 of them. Now I'm currently passing Bio with a C, border line from a D and C in chem and Completely failing Calculus all together.
I use to have a 3.7+ GPA, and now.... yeah.
I'm currently doing pre-requisites for medicine, and I'm using BS Biology as a stepping stone towards med school.
Anyone have ideas/tips for studying/ ways to bump my GPA back?, or have experienced this situation?
Also should I continue sticking with Calculus? We've had 3 quizzes and I've bombed all 3, but we have yet to take our mid terms.... so should I keep the class or drop, while I'm ahead?
I get the concepts, it's the simplification that kills me.</p>
<p>Well I’ve taken biology and calculus and got an A in both, but for biology I got lucky with an easy professor that let us bring the answers to the test questions to the test if we found the answers somewhere. But for calculus do a lot of practice problems to make sure you are doing them right, and just keep studying until you have it down.</p>
<p>Biology, concepts are easy, it’s remembering 8 chapters of concepts in one midterm is what’s difficult. I’m currently doing that for Calculus, and hoping that with practice I get it. Although I’m lost in Chemistry in general.</p>
<p>I got a C in my first semester of intro bio. They assumed a lot of stuff we knew from high school but that was a 3 year gap. It put me WAY. behind, especially with life cycles. I hated it so much I wanted to switch majors.
I transferred and took the second part of intro bio at another school. Loved it. Aced it. I’d go back to that class in a heart beat.</p>
<p>Learn to pick out important material and to take good notes because it doesn’t get any better. I’m taking animal bio now and our exams are over 8 chapters each and the final is everything. And those 8 chapters are no joke. I swear, if I have to hear about molluscs and cnidaria any more this week, my head will explode. There are a lot of premeds in the class (im not) that talk about why they need to know what happened to the molluscan shell in cephalopods if they want to be dermatologists (or whatever). </p>
<p>My advice? Get used to it and drop calc. Your GPA is extremely important. Don’t fail a class if you can drop it and retake it next semester.</p>