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rei · 10-31-2009, 10:46 PM

i know what you mean about not doing as well in an easier class.
i think it may have something to do with expectations. maybe you could make a conscious decision to release all expectations about the ease or difficulty of all your current classes and spend the same amount of time preparing for each one of them?

i think the expectations can bite us in the nose later sometimes. if it comes easy to us, we can more easily rationalize not spending much time on the material. or if things tend to come easily to you, then you may be like me in that you need to feel challenged or you go from an A to a C pretty easily. maybe you can come up with things related to the material that make it more challenging for you. actually use the bibliography from the syllabus (if there is one) and check out some of the books or articles recommended by the professor. if there's not a bibliography, do your own research into the topic and find a specific focus or approach that is more challenging.

something you said in another post made me wonder whether you officially know you failed or whether you're just concerned that you failed. do you know you got a less than passing grade?

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rei Family Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: earth, everywhere and nowhere Posts: 9,713	i know what you mean about not doing as well in an easier class. i think it may have something to do with expectations. maybe you could make a conscious decision to release all expectations about the ease or difficulty of all your current classes and spend the same amount of time preparing for each one of them? i think the expectations can bite us in the nose later sometimes. if it comes easy to us, we can more easily rationalize not spending much time on the material. or if things tend to come easily to you, then you may be like me in that you need to feel challenged or you go from an A to a C pretty easily. maybe you can come up with things related to the material that make it more challenging for you. actually use the bibliography from the syllabus (if there is one) and check out some of the books or articles recommended by the professor. if there's not a bibliography, do your own research into the topic and find a specific focus or approach that is more challenging. something you said in another post made me wonder whether you officially know you failed or whether you're just concerned that you failed. do you know you got a less than passing grade?