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<p>@ futuremystudent. Hey, look at it this way. Say its curved, then you’ll probably get a C, which is fine because if you get perfect on everything else, then you’ll get an A. Thats what I do all the time. Last year, I failed a E&M lab exam. I talked to my professor and he told me that I needed to get a perfect on the final to get an A-. That kinda sucked because I knew that I was going to go through hell. Basically, I isolated myself for days, used caffine stimulants, and got very little sleep. I did all the past exams timed. All the homework. Derived every formula. Read and re-read the notes. Went to every single office hour. And guess what? I got my A-. But that made me change my major from physics to math lol. But seriously, if you studied for 48hrs, you shouldn’t have scored that low. How did you study? Sometimes for social science classes, I would make short summaries about the chapter. The shorter the summary the better. Why because if I can write a summary of what the book is talking about, then I know that I know what the book is talking about. Then I would use flash cards and go over every term. Throwing out any card that I already recognize. What works even better is to get ahold of past exams and do them timed. It doesn’t really have to be from your professor, any past exam will do. Just get ahold of like 6-7 of them. After taking each exam, look at the mistakes and go into your econ text book and highlight or jot what you did wrong and try to understand why. But in order to do this most effectively, you have to be about a week ahead of class, which doesn’t really help for your case since you crammed. But for the future, if you have a whole week, just to prep, you’ll be in good shape. So far, I found that this way, albeit excessive, is the best if you want to ensure a perfect score.</p>