<p>Put hours and hours studying, go to tutoring, study group, go to office hours; studying during weekend but still average grade (b- equivalent of 2.7 GPA) for midterms.
I also feel 2.7 GPA isn't enough for me to get into any pre-health graduate school.</p>
<p>Basically feel incompetent at Berkeley</p>
<p>I said it in the other thread, the final exam is the make-or-break gauntlet so there’s no reason to give it up just yet.
Before that though, if you have to teach me from scratch on the material that was on the exam, then are you able to explain all the concepts and be prepared for whatever question I might have as I listen to you? I know you prepared a lot b/c you said it, but I just want to question if you understood everything inside and out.</p>
<p>Yes I can…but very difficult question seems to just a way to throw students off</p>
<p>Ok then.</p>
<p>I’m actually more of a fan towards individual studying and study group more than office hours and tutoring since there could be a lot of unproductive wait time especially in office hours and you could just allocate that time to sit down and study and no need to move around.</p>
<p>Past exams? Since you’re a freshman, almost all the courses should have past exams that you can easily search in the internet. You’ve done those and understood every question and still did badly?</p>
<p>I know test bank (previous test) and used that as a reference/practice test</p>
<p>I don’t quite get it then. If I start to work on the past exams a day or two before the exam because I was too unmotivated to do anything, it usually meant I would do mediocre at the best. But on some good days that I would prepare ahead of time and have enough time to saturate the material without rushing, then it’s just hard to not do well. Exams are tricky, but it’s not that convoluted because the material we learn in undergrad are actually pretty basic stuff.
I don’t think it has to do w/ smartness or whatever, and I have yet to see anyone do poorly when the person spent enough time to understand the material inside and out. Maybe it won’t be an A due to dumb luck, but it certainly shouldn’t be below average when you know it.</p>