<p>So at the beginning of the year, I was doing just fine in calculus and had an 85. Somewhere around the beginning of this chapter/month, i started failing miserably on quizzes and bombed the midterm. I couldn't understand exponential growth/decay functions at all and had trouble with related rates. My grade dropped 20% to a D and it's too late to drop out now. I'm getting a tutor but i'm worried that it might not help. What can I do? I've worked pretty hard to try to get to a UC and i don't want one class ruining my chances.</p>
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85 = Doing just fine? Oh no…</p>
<p>Wait what?</p>
<p>God forbid your gpa drops from a 3.75 to a 3.70</p>
<p>don’t worry funstuff is being sarcastic(in case you couldn’t tell) :)</p>
<p>Jump on that tutor and start a study group.
Trust me, just do it. There’s bound to be some other people in your class who will gladly join you.</p>
<p>Calc for Dummies: saving my sorry butt.</p>
<p>uh plutonium i have a d in calc so my gpa is definitely dropping way more than that…</p>
<p>Related rates is a *****. </p>
<p>Anyway, keep at it. Calculus can be passed. Millions have done it, millions more will do it. Will you be one of those?</p>
<p>really? i have a 94% in BC. math’s my thing though</p>
<p>umm… idk. i’ve found it doesn’t get easier but harder. it’ll build upon concepts and if you don’t understand the concepts you have no strong base and your pyramid crumbles.
talk with your teacher. see what their advice is. see how other kids are doing. maybe you’re not the only one doing badly.</p>
<p>Im a senior this year and took calc bc last year. I got 83 and 86 for 1st and 2nd semesters respectively, but got a 5 on the ap test. Calculus is hard, i know. ummm the book that helped me the most was the princeton review. try that</p>
<p>well right now we’re doing global minimum/maximum and the mean value theorem which i understand but the main things i had trouble with were exponential growth and related rates.</p>
<p>don’t worry, join the freaking club.</p>
<p>i dont even want to think about integrals…</p>
<p>Same here, dude. And the most shameful part about it is that I took regular Calculus last year, so this totally should have been a walk in the park for me since I aced that class. But in my AP class now your grade is based entirely on the tests you take (no quizzes, no homework, no participation grade), and unfortunately I’ve gotten horribly low grades on all but one test.</p>
<p>I guess I should go ahead and cancel my McGill application, because there’s no way they’ll take me anymore when they see my mid-year report. =(</p>
<p>i feel you aspire. biggest problem is that i’m takin this class junior year which is the most important so man…idk…</p>
<p>Try this. Lots of people just need a single look at one of these videos, and the light bulb goes on. Good luck.</p>
<p>[Khan</a> Academy](<a href=“http://www.khanacademy.org%5DKhan”>http://www.khanacademy.org)</p>
<p>thanks dude. i’ve tried khan academy and it definitely works, but despite that my grade is in the gutter.</p>
<p>Khan Academy = life saver</p>
<p>update: just got a 59 for the quarter. so long uc system.</p>
<p>Okay, dude, your chances at college are not going to be in danger because you got a D your first quarter of Calculus your junior year. To put things into perspective, if you bring your grade up to a high B for the rest of the year and do well on your midterms/finals, you have a great shot at getting a B in the class. So maybe an A is out of the question, but AP Calculus is a really hard class.</p>
<p>I am sitting in AP Calc right now as a senior with a C wondering how I can rebound from this - and not by the end of the year, by semester time in February. As much hope as I think I’ve lost, I have not given up. The “impossible” has been done before and where there’s a will, there’s a way. I think that if someone is determined to get something done, they will get it done in whatever way possible. I’m getting a tutor, I’m staying after more, I’m making a better effort to understand the work.</p>
<p>You can do it!</p>