college advice

[supertom]

(story)
well i do 4 subjects and i can ace the other 3 but the other one i just plain suck at it, The subject is 5 weeks hard stuff than 5 weeks easy, but the thing is i have to pass the 5 week hard stuff - mid-semester. Well thats in 2 weeks time and i dont think i can pass.



(question)
1. I wanna if anyone here that has failed a subject and they had to do again ??
2. If there is a right-brain person who is good at maths here ???

thankyou

[MagicalRealist]

Originally Posted by supertom

1. I wanna if anyone here that has failed a subject and they had to do again ??

Yes, I have (and it was a Math class, to be exact).

Failing one course isn't the end of the world, or your college career, especially if you do much better when you re-take it.

But try to avoid failing the course in the first place--even if that means you still have to re-take it.

Check to see what your university's drop/withdrawal policies are. The college I went to allowed students to drop courses within a certain period of time; if you dropped by the deadline the course didn't appear on your permanent record. But they also allowed a limited number of withdrawal privileges--I think it was one per academic year--in which you could withdraw from a course, for any reason, at a much later date. Withdrawing showed up as a 'W' on your transcript, but it didn't affect your GPA like a D or F grade would.

I had horrible difficulty with Math when I returned to college in my 30s. I eventually got through it and finished the required courses, but I got a D in the first one and had to repeat it, and withdrew from the second one and had to repeat it as well. I ended up getting Bs in both courses the the second time around because I already knew which areas were hardest for me to grasp, so I was able to get tutoring and other help lined up ahead of time. I also hunted for other math books that might help explain things better.

[supertom]

i was looking at the lecture notes and tutorial questions(the questions are gonna come from that, similar questions) and I think I can pass but i need to go find where i can learn it, cause we dont have textbooks for that subject.

[smartile]

Hi Supertom,

to your first question (yes!)
I failed First year programming (14%) and then retook the course and got 70%.

What I learned? That I'm not a very good programmer, not interested in programming and that it's not one of my strengths - so I don't do it. I avoid it altogether.

to your second question(yes!)
I'm a mechanical engineer but I use both brains (although I'll admit that I didn't in the past -- mostly left-brain).

In the past 18 months I've started creative writing, drawing, singing and playing guitar hero - totally right brain stuff..... love both brains!

[supertom]

thanks people i feel better, dw im still gonna try my best to pass, but im more relaxed.

BTW smartile, how did you start using your right ??? any techniques or you just do it.

[starkey]

When I had trouble with Differential Equations, I used a book called Schaum's Outlines that really helped me. Sometimes it's good to get things from a different perspective. A worthwhile investment.