With midterms rolling around, now its time to calculate that GPA to give you a little less anxiety. But what is a GPA? Your GPA is your grade point average, which measures your performance in your classes. By knowing your GPA, you can stay on track if everything looks good or it can show you if you need to work on your grades. Calculating your GPA is super easy to do, it just requires a little math :) So to get started here is a letter grade chart: So what you do is take all of your classes and figure out the credit hours for each class, and then add them together. Then multiply the number of credit hours for each individual class, by the grade you have in the class (see: letter grade chart). After you have the total number of points for each class, add all of them together. Then take the total points and divide them by the number of credit hours you have. There you have it! a GPA that is calculated. In case that was hard to follow, here's a visual:
Let me know if this helped! or gave you more anxiety....
~Steph
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If you've been in school at all, then you've dealt with teachers/professors that you didn't really like. While it may be hard to even listen to them talk sometimes, they are still the ones that give you a grade at the end of the semester. So instead of tuning out of the lecture and letting your grade suffer. here are some tips to help you deal with the professors you just don't like. 1. Follow their directions. We usually have a tendency to go against whatever a person says if we don't like them, but if you're dealing with a professor it will make the semester a lot smoother if you just do what they say. Even if you think it's the dumbest thing you ever heard regarding an assignment or a project, just do it. At the end of the day, it's better to end up with a good grade in the class even though you hated it, then to have an awful grade in the class just because you were being stubborn. 2. Try to visit them in their office hours. It may sound crazy to meet with a professor that you don't like in their office, but maybe if you start talking to them one on one they may not seem so bad. Try to get to know your professor to see what their personality is like. When you visit a professor in their office you will probably see a different side to them, and then they may not seem so bad after all. All I'm saying is try to be open minded with this person. Teachers have good days and bad days just like us, so just try to give them a chance. 3. Pay attention in class. It's so hard! I know! But try to listen to what this professor is saying. Even if it may sound like complete nonsense, there might be something that you agree with or something that you may think is funny. But if you really can't pay attention and it feels like utter torture, just show up and do the work, so that way your grade won't suffer. 4. Try to focus on the subject. If it is a subject that you really like, but the teacher just does not do it any justice, just try to focus on the subject and try to learn it your own way. Coming from my own experience, I found this to be very helpful because when I just thought about the subject by itself without the teacher involved I was still able to love it, and that way I could still contribute to the class discussion because I knew the subject and I tried not to think about the teacher when I was doing it.
If you try all of these suggestions and they still don't work for you and you still can't stand your teacher, just remember that the class will come to an end, and you won't have to see that professor again. Hopefully. ~Steph |
Hi, I'm StephanieI am an undergraduate psych major who enjoys creative writing, collecting stationery, and watching The Walking Dead.
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