What Am I Doing Wrong?

<p>So to make the long story short, I don't know why I keep getter low grades in math classes... (And only math classes...)</p>

<p>In Math3A I had some family emergencies so I was not really focused into the material. I ended up receiving a C and this really shocked me a lot.</p>

<p>So when I was in Math3B, I decided to show a lot of improvement because of the C I received last quarter. I sighed up for peer tutoring, always studied ahead, went to professor's office hours, even went to SMC twice a week for homework helps and other advices and really studied a lot. I thought I made a huge improvements compared to my Math3A because my midterm grades for Math3B were at least on average which I was happy with. </p>

<p>But when I checked myucla, I found out that I received a C for Math3B as well. This really shocked me a lot and it took me a while to I guess "come back to the reality"</p>

<p>What did I do wrong because I really though I could have at least earned B- since I felt like I did pretty well on the finals. What could have went wrong...?</p>

<p>Oh and I received two C during freshman year and my GPA that started from 3.6 is now around 3.1 I really want to go to pharmacy school... ha... any advices please? I don't even know what to do right now... (I freaked out A LOT when I saw my results and was really really upset when my change in effort didn't reflect my grade AT ALL)</p>

<p>I’m sorry about what happened, and I’m also sorry for asking a question to your question… but, were you a straight A student in high school?</p>

<p>^@overachiever92, what relevance does his high school grades have to do with his undergraduate math grades? what useful information will you be able to extract if he/she was or wasn’t a straight A hs student?</p>

<p>@ OP, pull yourself together. You can still go to pharmacy school but you better bust your ass off the following quarters until graduation (I hope you’re no older than a junior). And you have to honestly ask yourself, did you really try your best? Because you need to do so, because you know that pharmacy school is competitive. With that aside, how exactly did you study for your math classes? Because university calc is a completely different animal from your high school ap calc (assuming if you took it in high school). A minority of the midterm problems, like 1 or 2 out of 5 (something like that, from my experience that is), are designed to shape the grading curve of the class, or in other words, separate the people who studied hard from the people who somewhat studied. And these problems aren’t usually something that you’ve seen before. So expect these “curveball” problems and make sure you understand/memorize every single theorem and explore the various ways in which you can use/exploit those theorems. Also make sure you know every technique/tool in solving a certain problem, this will probably be hinted or told during lecture by your professor. You should take note that math isn’t mindless memorization of a certain formula where you plug in numbers, and allowing this to be the end all solution to every problem (unless its math 33b, lol). Honestly, if you studied properly and adequately there is no reason you should be getting a C in any of your math classes regardless of professor. Sorry for the long advice, and sorry if I sounded like a smartass. But assuming that you have a couple years to go at ucla, you can still get into pharamcy school. Have faith and work hard. Good luck!</p>

<p>Welcome to my world. You walk out of a midterm feeling great and end up with the same old B-.</p>

<p>Since I never solved my own grade problem, my best advice is either to get out of UCLA as fast as you can. You have one leg in and you’ll only sink deeper.</p>

<p>At the end of the day, your career is more important to you than the right to boast about coming from a “top” state school. Remember that.</p>

<p>Hello, I actually checked this today haha…</p>

<p>Um… yeah in high school I think I was straight A student. I understand that high school and college is different and I’m the first generation from my family to attend college so it is kind of hard to talk to my parents about changing studying method and things like that… Do you think I can receive any help before second year starts…?</p>

<p>To QuickazLight: I sent you a p.m for the thank you note and question as well. ^-^</p>