I know it’s really early in the semester, but I recently took my first test for Geology. I studied my ass off for this one. I ended up getting a B and missing only 3 out of 25 total questions. I know it’s trivial, but it really bothers me. I want to pass with an A, and it’s still early in the semester so I guess I’m just worrying over nothing. After our tests, our professor has us take a quiz of the whole unit we just covered as part of some post assessment that’s required, got a 100 on that. Am I just over reacting?
- Yes you are overreacting.
- It is unlikely that you will get an A in every class you take so relax.
If you dropped every class you may not get an A in, then you may be in College for a long time. You are fine and yes you are overreacting.
Yes, you are overreacting. No, don’t drop it.
Shift your paradigm. You don’t need an A in everything. No one does.
Yes. Unless you are attending East Jabip Community College, there should be no expectation that you will earn an A in every class.
My goal is to earn high grades in as many classes as possible. I know it seems a bit far fetched, but I want to try.
While I admire your determination, I caution you that setting unrealistic goals is not always healthly. No one is strong in every area. You can try to take only coures that are in your strength area but that kinda if defeats the concepts of broading your mind, challenging yourself and exploring new areas.
Remember you are not defined by a number. For most jobs once you past the accepatable GPA, athe only thing they care about is your job eperiece and skill set. Once you graduate and work a few years, no one cares about the GPA.
To spare yourself lots of eye-rolling, make sure you do any drops before your drop form requires an instructor/adviser signature.
I think a slight adjustment of your goal will allow you to have a much happier and healthier college expereince. Do not let any one professor, or any one exam to become the sole arbiter of your success. I recommend that you make it your goal to take school seriously, work hard, and to do your very best in each class you take.
It’s still early in the semester so instead of dropping the class, why not go to the professors office hours to discuss the test? Or the class in general? Maybe you can form a study group if you’re disappointed in your performance?
Nothing wrong with trying hard and striving to do as well as you can. Rather than drop a class because you get a B on the first test, look for strategies and resources to help you do better next time. Those strategies and tools might help you do better in this class as well as others in the future. This is one of the things to be learned in college, why professors and TAs have office hours, and schools have academic support/success resources. As I have told my own daughter and several other posters like you with this issue, “your head will not blow off if you earn a B”.
Perhaps I’m being a bit too ambitious. I’ll still try, I still have an A in the class but it was a slight upset considering I spent a lot of time studying for it.
Nothing wrong with ambition. Need to have a healthy mindset that looks to work on problems effectively rather than quit because of fear of a lower than desired grade. If everyone quit when the going got challenging not much would ever be accomplished.
College can be a very humbling experience for a high school academic star. Remember: perfect is the enemy of good. You can bust your hump trying to grub for A’s and miss out on a lot of other important college experiences. Unless you need a better grade to keep a scholarship or get into a specific program, I wouldn’t sweat it. You are learning how to study for this subject and this class and this teacher - your grade will smooth out over time. Even if it doesn’t, a B is still a decent grade.
Unless you are under a condition that requires very high grades/GPA (e.g. pre-med, scholarship requires a very high GPA to renew, or want to enter a competitive-admission major that requires a very high GPA), grubbing for A grades versus B grades is unlikely to be of significant value to your college experience (including the actual learning part of it) compared to the cost of extra semester you may need to make up the “missing” courses that you dropped (and a record with light course loads or withdrawn courses could be evaluated negatively for admission to medical schools or competitive-admission majors).
Well, I’m not really missing out on anything if I’m gonna be honest. I have no social life minus like one friend from high school that I talk to sometimes, but that’s about it.
i have a question if you all dont mind. Im a sophomore in highscool now and I’m currently taking pre ap algebra 2 but im debating wether or not i should drop the class to on level since its quite stressful and i feel im not going to do well in the class. Im also taking pre ap geometry too and other various classes so dropping the class would help lessen the stressand perhaps i could get a better grade than staying in pre ap. But,Im conflicted on if i should drop because my friends who are taking pre calculus are saying that pre ap algebra 2 will help for both pre ap precalc and AP calculus. and since i want to pursue engineering ( perhaps biomedical specifically) taking math is essential and im afraid it’lll look bad to colleges to TAMU,UT and more if i take on level math classes and pursue engineering. What effects will taking all on level math classes in admission to college? What is more important, GPA or ap credits?
Hey @AnnaBTSARMY - You can start your own post by clicking the big orange New Discussion button on each forum’s main page, near the top. I’d recommend starting one in the College Admissions forum: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/. You should do this instead of posting in other, unrelated threads 