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Hi guys! I am a first year Bsc Physics student at university in the UK
Basically I did well last year (my foundation year to allow me access to this program coming third in my class of 80 over with 90%)
However due to a mixture of bad teaching and my poor work ethic (mainly this one) I have most likely failed my maths 1 and physics 1 papers. It has actually made me really depressed and I have started self harming again but I have sat down and had some time to think about what went wrong and how I am going to fix it so I have lots of motivation to get stuck into the next semster.
I have made a plan of action for improving in the coming semester and june exams and eventually resits in august for my january exams. I was just wondering if any of you could give me any advice on what you think of it and give tips on how to improve it.
Plan of action
1. Attend every lecture
2. Attend and complete all workshops and tutorials (including questions set before hand)
3. For any coursework set, do it myself, rather than copy others (something I did last semester)
4. Do the tutorial questions and courseworks within two days of them being set (if not possible do at the coming weekend)
My study guide for this semester (this is after the lecture has been done and to be done day of or day after the lecture)
1. Read through the theory and derivations making sure I initially understand it
2. Make notes on the topic using the lecture notes and textbook recommended for the course (notes will contain the concepts, definitions, relevant equations, detailed version of the derivations of said equations when needed and any hard worked examples)
3. Do the worked examples given in the textbook and lecture
4. Next do the textbook questions on that topic going from easier to hard type questions
5. When stuck on questions make sure I understand how to complete the question instead of skipping over that question
6. Ask lecturers for help when needed
Could you give me any advice on how to improve this study guide and also for step 5 how should I go about understanding how to complete the question
I will add this next bit but not sure if it is relevant
modules I will be doing next semster
maths 2 - (second order ode,limit of a sequence, Taylor/Maclaurin series, Fourier series, partial derivatives of functions of two and three variables and determine the maxima, minima and saddle points of a function of two variables)
Physics 2 - (simple harmonic motion/oscillators, thermodynamics, wave equations, diffraction, reflection, refraction, Time-independent Schroedinger equation Tunnelling and a couple of other things)
Introductory linear algebra - (Matrices, Determinants, Concrete vector spaces and subspaces, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors and General systems of linear equations) (This module will allow me to change to MPhys Theoretical physics next year if I get there)
Computing 1 (introduction to python)
Physics lab 2
Thanks for any help
Max
Basically I did well last year (my foundation year to allow me access to this program coming third in my class of 80 over with 90%)
However due to a mixture of bad teaching and my poor work ethic (mainly this one) I have most likely failed my maths 1 and physics 1 papers. It has actually made me really depressed and I have started self harming again but I have sat down and had some time to think about what went wrong and how I am going to fix it so I have lots of motivation to get stuck into the next semster.
I have made a plan of action for improving in the coming semester and june exams and eventually resits in august for my january exams. I was just wondering if any of you could give me any advice on what you think of it and give tips on how to improve it.
Plan of action
1. Attend every lecture
2. Attend and complete all workshops and tutorials (including questions set before hand)
3. For any coursework set, do it myself, rather than copy others (something I did last semester)
4. Do the tutorial questions and courseworks within two days of them being set (if not possible do at the coming weekend)
My study guide for this semester (this is after the lecture has been done and to be done day of or day after the lecture)
1. Read through the theory and derivations making sure I initially understand it
2. Make notes on the topic using the lecture notes and textbook recommended for the course (notes will contain the concepts, definitions, relevant equations, detailed version of the derivations of said equations when needed and any hard worked examples)
3. Do the worked examples given in the textbook and lecture
4. Next do the textbook questions on that topic going from easier to hard type questions
5. When stuck on questions make sure I understand how to complete the question instead of skipping over that question
6. Ask lecturers for help when needed
Could you give me any advice on how to improve this study guide and also for step 5 how should I go about understanding how to complete the question
I will add this next bit but not sure if it is relevant
modules I will be doing next semster
maths 2 - (second order ode,limit of a sequence, Taylor/Maclaurin series, Fourier series, partial derivatives of functions of two and three variables and determine the maxima, minima and saddle points of a function of two variables)
Physics 2 - (simple harmonic motion/oscillators, thermodynamics, wave equations, diffraction, reflection, refraction, Time-independent Schroedinger equation Tunnelling and a couple of other things)
Introductory linear algebra - (Matrices, Determinants, Concrete vector spaces and subspaces, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors and General systems of linear equations) (This module will allow me to change to MPhys Theoretical physics next year if I get there)
Computing 1 (introduction to python)
Physics lab 2
Thanks for any help
Max