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belvol
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Hello all,
I am a 19 year old female currently in my first semester of engineering school. I have taken other classes such as Physics I and Calculus I & II and done pretty well in them. Today I got my statics exam score back and received a 60%...the average was a 72%. A 60% puts me at the very bottom of a D...and I've been working much harder than D work. I have been putting on average 3 hours of work into the class per lecture, asking questions to tutors, and visiting the professor when appropriate. I know that statics is a class that people either really struggle with or find simple...I believe the concepts are pretty simple, but for some reason I'm struggling to put the bigger picture together. It might be because I haven't taken linear algebra yet so a lot of the math we were doing the first week was completely unfamiliar to me.
I guess I'm just wondering how statics went for some other people. My first test is only 20% of my grade...and I'm doing everything I can to get all 15% of the homework grade. Does anyone have any online resources they have found especially helpful? What were your best habits for studying statics (I understand what works for you might not work for me...but maybe I haven't thought of something simple...)? I'm trying to stay positive and tell myself this one test does not reflect my engineering career, but it's the first test I've ever failed and I've put A LOT of effort into that class...
I am a 19 year old female currently in my first semester of engineering school. I have taken other classes such as Physics I and Calculus I & II and done pretty well in them. Today I got my statics exam score back and received a 60%...the average was a 72%. A 60% puts me at the very bottom of a D...and I've been working much harder than D work. I have been putting on average 3 hours of work into the class per lecture, asking questions to tutors, and visiting the professor when appropriate. I know that statics is a class that people either really struggle with or find simple...I believe the concepts are pretty simple, but for some reason I'm struggling to put the bigger picture together. It might be because I haven't taken linear algebra yet so a lot of the math we were doing the first week was completely unfamiliar to me.
I guess I'm just wondering how statics went for some other people. My first test is only 20% of my grade...and I'm doing everything I can to get all 15% of the homework grade. Does anyone have any online resources they have found especially helpful? What were your best habits for studying statics (I understand what works for you might not work for me...but maybe I haven't thought of something simple...)? I'm trying to stay positive and tell myself this one test does not reflect my engineering career, but it's the first test I've ever failed and I've put A LOT of effort into that class...