<p>I am now a freshman at college and have A's in about all my classes so far. I think i may have gotten a C on a chemistry assignment. Any tips on how I can avg out at least a B+ in chem and a 3.80 average overall. I want to be a surgeon so grades matter alot to me!!</p>
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<p>If you can’t figure out the answer to your question by looking at your Chemistry syllabus, noting how your remaining exams and assignments are weighted, and figuring out what grades you will need to get the average you want…</p>
<p>Remind me not to have you as my surgeon. Ever. Thank you.</p>
<p>they say getting A’s on your next assigments helps, but I think flunking them works just as well :)</p>
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<p>Couldn’t have said it better myself.</p>
<p>It was only one assignment dude and besides I got A’s in biology and chemistry so dont worry about me being your surgeon because I’m probably going to be out of your reach. Thank you anyway.</p>
<p>Get a tutor?</p>
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<p>If you want to be a doctor, <em>grades,</em> in and of themselves should not matter to you at all. The <em>material</em> should matter to you. Don’t study just so that you qualify for med school. If you study just for the sake of passing a course, you’ll forget everything you’ve learned as soon as the year is over, and I don’t want somebody who doesn’t remember anything from Freshman Chemistry as my surgeon.</p>
<p>I don’t fully understand, but I think the people who’ve been ■■■■■■■■ you on this topic are doing it because you’re willing to settle for a 3.8 GPA. That’s not good enough, dude. If you want to be the best, you need to go all or nothing. You should shoot for a 4.0 GPA, and be horribly disappointed with yourself if you come up with anything short of that.</p>
<p>Your problem isn’t that you don’t know how to study. It’s that you’re too lazy to ask yourself what parts of the material you don’t understand, asking peers to help you better-understand this material, meeting your professor to ask for advice, and just doing good, old-fashioned studying. That’s the only legitimate way that anybody’s ever pulled off good grades, short of just being naturally gifted with the material (which your current struggles prove you’re not). Your problem is your general mindset, where you’re willing to settle for a B+ in Chemistry and say “That’s good enough to get me into med school, so that’s all I need” or “It was only one assignment, dude.”</p>
<p>Set higher goals for yourself. The goals you have now just show that you’re not actually working hard and preparing yourself to become a good doctor – you just want to be a doctor, preparedness and hard work be damned.</p>
<p>Again, the best scholars don’t just study so that they can pass a course. They study so that they can <em>learn,</em> and the stellar grades come naturally to them because they always know the material so well. A competent doctor would not sell himself short by saying “I need a B+ in this class to become a surgeon, so that’s going to be my goal.” No patient wants a doctor who tells himself that a B+ is good enough, because paying for medical bills/insurance in this country is a pain in the ass. Nobody wants to pay out the ass for a B+ doctor who’ll give B+ effort and only knows enough about medicine to provide B+ medical care. If you’re not capable of demanding the absolute most from yourself, then you’re not cut out to be a doctor.</p>
<p>If you do all that and still don’t nail AT LEAST a B+ in Freshman Chemistry, then honestly, I don’t know what to tell you.</p>
<p>thanks for the info, i will take your advice and aim higher, I just needed some reassurance i guess.</p>