First year of college, and I’ve gone and messed it up.
I was unprepared for the amount of impact the exams had compared to high school. I took some pretty difficult courses with a lot of older students. Nonetheless it was a new course being taught and I’m barely scraping by with a C. I’m majoring in computer science but not sure why I ended up taking this logic assembly class that I think I could’ve done much better with some prior knowledge of hardware/circuits.
I’m doing ok in my other classes but our college only uses flat grades no pluses or minuses. 2 A’s and 2 B’s. 2 of the harder classes I’m taking right now I’m getting a C. GPA turns out to be a 2.8~.
Kinda shocked me when I first started to calculate this but I’m over it now and making a plan to bounce back from this.
I also realize my mistakes in underestimating just how important the midterms/finals are and how much impact they have. I’ve been keeping up on attendance and homework nearly perfectly. My biggest problem right now is not constantly studying when I’m free. I don’t usually study/review material unless its the day prior to a test. I know what to do and what to expect now and I can’t change the past only move forward. Is it realistically possible to raise my GPA?
Getting a 2.8 in your first semester is not irrecoverable. Not by a long shot. Youve probably got what, like 16 to 18 credits now? You’ll have another ~110 to dilute that 2.8. You’re fine.
OK you get so-so gpa now. Have you analyzed about yourself such as: why you have not been able to A or B in those so called harder classes?
You have to take personal inventory and change your weaknesses like: perhaps you need to join study group? perhaps you need to understand the concepts or the Logic of each classes; don’t just memorize them but understand the Logic in problem solving. Perhaps, you need make appointments with your professor or the assistance to go over in that subject; perhaps you can not concentrate during lecture time? perhaps you need to increase your study time? perhaps, you need to borrow extra reference books so will be exposed more to how to solve the problems. Or, perhaps you can find online help with your courses?
There must something that has caused your gpa that low and there must be some kind of solution thereof. Just like the previous guy said. It is only the beginning and it is not too late. Life is good.
This isn’t an issue. If you are studying effectively you shouldn’t need to study constantly. You are better off studying a topic in spurts and then taking a few days off before approaching it again.
This is a very bad idea. Cramming for exams is, first and foremost, a terrible way to actually learn information in the first place, and is also about the least effective method of actually remembering any of that information long term.
And engineering places an emphasis on retaining the subject matter for the long term. Subjects build on prior classes. You need to change your ways and not just cram for the tests or you’re going to find yourself in big trouble in the not to distant future.
Depends on what caused it. Was it a work ethic problem, or was it that the material really never clicked for you? If the earlier, then if you can really turn it around, you still have a chance. If the latter, you might have difficulty continuing down engineering, as the material only continues to get harder.