<p>I was given the chance to use a cheat sheet - one sheet of handwritten notes back to back for the exam. I did not do the homework, used a solutions manual and copied the work onto paper, handed that in. Have a bad habit of doing that for many years in math, and have still gotten 3s and 2s grades still, but this time calc III is a mixed bag of "real" math problems that got me. I read the book like heck and that's all I did. I studied the homework with the solutions manual. I put equations on the cheat sheet, but not problems and their worked out solutions. That would have helped MUCH more. I did the homework just in the past few days, understand it, feel better about it. However, I STILL forget how to do it. More repetition? Or a better cheat sheet needed with examples to remember things on the test?????</p>
<p>Sometimes you just have to BS things. And students were getting caught cheating. This is why they finally allowed note sheets on the test. I did this not at the university I am at now where it is allowed but at the community college where I was (where it was not allowed).</p>
<p>Bottom line: too hard to remember taking physics and history as well! Too much of a wishy-washy thing to get a good grade and get into grad school/med school as a biochem major (grade can easily tilt after just one test - each test has just 5 questions on it). Calc I had many more - I did better.</p>
<p>Bottom line is that I keep getting poor grades even when I skim things to save time and still learn conceptually but not perfectly for exams, and there have been many times when I have just "gotten by" with HUGE extra credit assignments at the community college. Though I must change, and have...I have 5 repeated courses total in biology, general chem, organic chemistry, now calculus, and precalculus. Maybe I am in the wrong major. My humanities GPA was a 3.5. My major GPA in biochem is a 2.65 and overall a 2.75 (university) + 3.09 (cc) = 2.92</p>