<p>I am currently threatening to have at least two, if not three D's. I don't know what to do. I study for these exams but they just trick you like mad. Most of my classes are based on 3 exams and if you fail one of them you are screwed.</p>
<p>Whats your major?</p>
<p>Have you been attending every class and taking comprehensive notes?</p>
<p>I can feel your pain…but I admit it’s my own fault.I wish I could have chance to do it again.</p>
<p>What classes are you taking?</p>
<p>Many people have one bad semester, it’s not the end of the world. What I would do is, decide which of these is either 1) the easiest to study for, or 2) the most important of the classes (in terms of your major, required classes, etc) and focus on that class to bring your grade up in there. Still study for the other(s), but focus your efforts on one so that one has a better grade and balances out the other D('s). Therefore your GPA won’t completely tank from three D’s, but instead maybe you’ll have a B,C,D.</p>
<p>AU had pretty good advice, I’m not gonna lie.. I had a pretty bad semester this semester but I’m still going to get a 4.0 because I dropped my bad ones 
Talk to your teachers, a lot of times they can give you a WP if its past the drop period.. trust me a WP is MUCH better than a D or even a C in my opinion!</p>
<p>A bad semester all comes down to you didn’t study enough, no matter what you say on here or how much you tell people you studied, you could have always done more. In college you have to learn to study a little bit every day, the last minute cramming you used to do doesn’t cut it anymore.</p>
<p>When you say something like “I study for these exams but they just trick you like mad,” especially given that this is a problem for you in two or three classes, it suggests that you’re not studying effectively or that you’re having difficulty understanding the questions. (Rate Your Students had a post about the former problem recently – search for “Tricky Tricia from Tucumcari” – from an instructor’s point of view.)</p>
<p>Have you gone to office hours to discuss what went wrong? Not just what the answers ought to have been but whether they can discern a pattern to your problems? Is it possible that you’re not taking adequate notes in class or that you’re not getting the full benefit of the material in the reading that isn’t covered in lectures and discussions? Have you looked at whether the problem is test-taking skills, such as starting to answer before you’ve digested what the question is? Have you thought about what these two or three classes have in common that might be throwing you? No matter what you do about these classes this semester (and I’d suggest tutoring for any class you intend to complete), I think you ought to pay attention to the possibility that these grades indicate a problem you need to fix in order to be successful in the future.</p>
<p>I have had exactly one instructor in my life who wrote deliberately confusing questions. He had a bank of true/false statements where he could change the truth value by changing one word in the statement. He gave out lists of essay questions in advance, and then used a subset of those questions on the tests, and then he also had the true/false statements. When he gave makeup exams he’d change some or all of the truth values on the true/false statements in order to penalize cheaters. So I’m not saying that it doesn’t happen, but I do think it happens much, much, much less frequently than people who attribute their grades to “trickiness” think: very often there’s something they don’t get, and because they not only don’t get it but don’t get that they don’t get it they assume there’s some “trick.”</p>
<p>Everyone goes to “the hardest university and always has the hardest professor”</p>
<p>Often, poor grades are a signal to switch majors. Sticking it out in a major you aren’t cut out for leads to disaster.</p>
<p>As far as withdrawing goes, unless you absolutely cannot manage a C, withdrawing will only look bad – especially if it happens more than once or in more than one class. Withdrawals from more than one class during your college career really make grad and professional schools question your academic ability and ability to carry things through to completion (a critical skill for most any career).</p>
<p>Yeah well a few C’s on your transcript will make your gpa not competitive.. I think its unfortunate to be in that position at all.</p>
<p>I think I know what my problem is. I simply didn’t have my priorities in the right place this semester. I had a few morning classes that I would often skip alot due to partying the night before. Plus I was just used to be able to study a few hours for a test in high school and do good on it, but apparently it doesn’t work this way in college..</p>
<p>What’s your major?</p>
<p>Not attending class means you miss info that ends up being on the test. Unlike high school classes, college classes include info that isn’t in the textbook.</p>
<p>Many professors also tell their classes what info will be on the test and what the test format will be. Skip class, and you can study the wrong material for the test.</p>
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<p>this is not true. I will grant you the D, but definitely not the C</p>
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<p>this is not true either, except possibly for the very very top grad schools.</p>
<p>at your school can you drop class without them showing up on your transcript after midterms?</p>
<p>I guess I simply speak because I plan on dental school.. and a few w’s are definitely better than having your GPA lowered by a few C’s. If your transcript is littered with C’s or W’s you are in trouble either way.</p>
<p>I don’t really care what my GPA is as long as I get my degree. I’m not planning on grad school anyway.</p>
<p>Two things…try and get later classes next semester so you don’t run into the early morning class problem and know that the semester goes really fast and yes, sometimes it’s just 3 tests that determine your grade so you can’t slack off and make up for it later like in H.S. My S had the same problem his first semester in college. It’s a rude awakening, but hopefully you will learn from your mistakes and turn things around.</p>