brutally honest advice on how to get good grades in college
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2020
- how to not flunk your tests and fail out: realistic edition. listen up for the realest advice on how to get all As in your college classes and study the right way. elle woods would be proud.
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disclaimer: everyone has different opinions on what "good grades" are. for some, getting all As isn't even possible (hello STEM field, looking at you), but these are just ways that have helped me personally get solid grades throughout college. not sponsored.
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"if you're just doing stuff to get a good grade and you're not actually learning anything, why are you paying fat stacks?... If you're prioritizing actual learning and education over the grade, then the grades will actually come with that." This quote from the end of the video actually helped me a lot. I have been just doing homework and assignments to pass and get good grades but I am not actually absorbing or learning anything (hence why I crammed before an exam and forgot everything right after). This opened my eyes and gave me a new perspective.
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so very relatable!!
“Then break off like zayn did from 1D” GIRL IM JUST TRYING TO GET SOME TIPS HERE
I ALSO WANT IT
SAME SIS LMAO XJDNSNSNNS
I feel like the section on starting your homework before the due date was a personal attack on me
as it should be
do your homework
Starting your homework early is a very good habit. Your life will be so much less stressful if you don't procrastinate. What helps me is using a planner app on my phone. Making a list of things to do each day and following a routine helps a lot to make yourself do things you don't want to do.
syd’s family deserves a sitcom
I love how she turns a serious talk interesting and fun
i lost it at 7:58- we stan one direction in this house
I looked so hard for this comment❤️😁
Advice from an incoming college junior who ties my worth to my grades: as tempting as it may SOUND, don’t overload too much on credits. I was never able to give my full attention and energy to any one class during the semester, resulting in cutting corners and not really learning and getting my money’s worth. It’s nice in theory to get ahead but in reality 19-20 credit semesters can just drain you of excitement and learning, because you’re too busy trying to finish assignments to get a good grade. Ofc everyone handles workload differently, but even if you’re the overachieving type, just remember it’s ok to drop if it’s too much and it’s ok to make some time for your wellbeing.
Also summer courses are not the end of the world. I've taken 5 summer courses over two summers and if you pick them right you can work them into vacations or parties or whatever you have going on. Most summer courses are between 6 & 8 weeks so you have plenty of non school days before and after them. I take them to lighten my load during the fall and spring semesters and I'm so glad that I did because I have enough credits to graduate in December if I wanted to and my fall semester will only be four classes. On the flip side I have a friend whose only taken two summer courses in two summers and has six courses this fall of really tough classes.
Chelsey Abbott yes good point!! I know a few people doing summer courses and they have more freedom in their fall and spring schedules because of it.
i’m watching this as a high school sophomore 😃🔨 never too early to plan out how you’ll continue to tie your self worth to your grades
same
Same
RIGHT like i’ve been watching this stuff and college acceptance videos 😭
nico s LMAO those are my favorite
lol i'm in freshman college at the age of 17 (I'm supposed to be in 12th grade but i'm not). this is making me nervous
8:48 THIS. TIP. Last year I had a calc class with a horrible professor and I was doing horribly in it even though I was putting so much time into studying that I was getting lower grades in my Data Structures/Algorithms and Spanish classes (both of which were fairly easy for me). I went to an advisor (not mine because she was on maternity leave) who told me to just continue with the class and if I fail, I could retake it. Being a naive freshman I went along with that horrible advice and failed the class, ended up on academic probation (a devastating blow after having been an honors student for all of high school), and the next semester I found out from my actual advisor that when calculating my technical GPA for applying to the CompSci major, both attempts at calculus would be factored in. Finding this out gave me weekly panic attacks for the next month and, even though it did lead me to the conclusion that CS wasn’t the major for me (I’m applying for IT later this year since there’s less math and more business, which is good because I did pretty well in DECA in high school) I would not recommend staying in a class that you have no hope of passing to ANYONE.
Yes. Failing does not look good.. better to drop out if you think you’re going to fail.
Not drop out.. drop the class and take it the next semester lol or find a class that will give you the same credit point you need
not the community intro- i love this omg
When Syd gives you better advice on how to prepare for college than the lessons you get in High School.
can't wait for the merch and the last piece of advice is so true!!
i love all the pams branch campus videos sm i love this channel
in this house we stan pam’s branch campus
that was a great speech at the beginning 😢 thank you dean so powerful
I CAN CONFIRM THIS IS 10000% ACCURATE I REALLY WISH I SAW THIS AS A FRESHMAN IT WOULDVE SAVED ME MANY A MENTAL BREAKDOWN
^^^LISTEN UP PEOPLE SHE KNOWS
I'm so thankful that I've found this channel as I remember that the first video was actually her disney vlog and ever since then, I've enjoyed her channel so much. I am a incoming freshman and the amount of advice is appreciated. Thank you :).
I’m am so excited about the merch 👏
early i guess. i love sydney so much. shes helped me through some of my darkest times! keep going baby people need you
LITERALLY LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!🤩🤩
i’m literally going into 9th grade idek what im doing here 😭
okay but the last tip, YES. this made me realize I've been doing this for my core/pre-reqs, and I enjoy my actual major classes so much more.
I was just about to go find something to do cause I was bored then I got this notification. Thanks!❤️
um sydney... im going to zoom university- :((
LOVE!!! As always, so amazing :)
I’m not going to college for another 5 years or so but I still need to watch all of your videos and it’s really useful
Never clicked on a notification so fast, love your videos !!
thank you Sydney for this video. I am a senior in high school and I definitely learned a lot from this video and what to expect when I get into college.
I f***en love your videos, absolute comedy, no joke your content is the most relatable sh** I’ve found online.
I say this literally every time but your intros slap!
just ordered the merch so excited to do school in it
Your study style is literally so unique and i want to try it
This video had good tips and it was engaging. I like your content !
I recognized the Dean Pelton speech immediately.
Love that this video was posted the day after I turned in an exam that I probably failed because I decided to take calculus 2 over the summer online (: really could've used some of this advice lol
Her college videos motivate me to do schoolwork and I love it
good timing syd, i literally just started revising for the day 🤣
This video made me start on my 3 assignments due tomorrow, thank you😌
I love this channel and this advice is awesome for incoming freshmen! I will be honest though, I just graduated from college and I did NOT get all As (by any means... like I had to retake a few classes), AND it’s “spicy flu” season (aka the job market is HORRIBLE atm), and I was still able to get my dream job. The advice at the end about prioritizing learning over getting the grade is so so so important! My college advice? Study and learn because you are studying something that you will potentially be doing for the rest of your life and you need to actually know how to do it well. BUT also have fun in college. Don’t take living with all of your best friends for granted (because you never know when a pandemic will strike and you’ll have to leave 3 months before you’re supposed to graduate and because your school made the decision to send everyone home SO last minute you didn’t get to say goodbye to everyone and you live out of state from your school and don’t know when you’ll ever see them again 🙃). It’s such a fun 4 years and honestly killing yourself to get an A in a class that has nothing to do with your major that will never be applicable to your real life is not worth it.
"Great value emma chamberlains" we love a humble queen
haha you’re still so serious about it! i’m on my last semester of college, by that point you’ll be so over it, you’ll just glide thru it with the minimum
I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE MERCH
we love pam!
I remember watching your videos YEARS ago, havent seen one for a WHILE. Possibly a good 2 or so years. You weren't in college yet😅 but you're just now being recommended to me again by the yojtube algorithm. Its crazy how much your channel has grown!
You're hilarious yet so informative, I love it.
I mg girl! You are so funny! 😂 This is great advice though! I just love your presence and your confidence! 😘
thank you so much for this 😭
syd’s intros are the best thing ever
I love you Syd 💕
thank you for this!!!
I'm going to be a sophomore in college and I needed all of this advice. btw i love your videos!!
Yay a Syd vid!!! Wheee!! Too many are too much alike. Yours are unique!
Thanks for the video. I really needed it because I'm starting college in two weeks.
This is such solid advice saving this even though I’m probably never going to college
I never skip ads for u college queen 🌜✨🌟
This fall semester was the first semester I buckled down and I can confirm that all these tips are full proof!
CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS MERCH
That exam schedule is sooo smart !!! Thank you🥺
I love the community reference, I’m in love
I love the intro! Recreating the intro for community, chefs kiss 😘👌
as a freshman in college, this is so helpful thank you!
I've never wanted a TH-camr's merch before until now
ahhhhhhhh the community reference i love you sooo much more now i am obsessed with that showwww
Not skipping any ads to help w syd's college tuition>
I really like your videos. I’m also going to be a Penn State Junior this fall.
this video is like,,,,, so useful omfg
I can’t believe that she is almost done with college it feels like time is going so fast
Syd is the only thing keeping me sane during rona isolation. 🎉
Rona in Hindi means crying and I think crying aptly describes 2020.
Vibhati Narang Thats amazing LMAO thanks for the knowledge
Thanks so much for the advice
Gosh, I have been out of college for 10 years now, but this brings back awful memories as life as an electrical engineering major... side note: GO PENN STATE! I lived in EE East & West, Willard, and Hammond buildings for the second half of my stay and watched all of the people with so much free time having fun on College Ave. Prepare for the novel because I have a lot of opinions on this!
The idea for making a complete schedule for all major tests and project dates for all classes is a great idea that I wish I did. Especially once I got into my junior year and senior year where I had the bulk of my core courses and electives related to my major, I spent a lot of time on homework and studying and it was really easy to lose track of time as the weeks are flying by. There are classes where I had homework assignments due to hand in on a regular basis as well, and that would have been helpful to put on the schedule, as those assignments generally took considerable time to complete, and should have been factored into my schedule.
One tip I could give is that for each homework assignment or project, on the day it is assigned, take a look at it to see how long it is, how difficult it looks, etc and factor that in based on when it is due along with other due dates in your schedule so you can figure out when you are going to complete it. I've had assignments that were 4-5 questions that either had a million parts, or were just really involved to solve and actually took a while to figure out! Looks can be deceiving. Another tip is DON'T think that you need to complete an assignment or project in one sitting! Use the downtime between classes to work on assignments. There are times where I can complete easier assignments in a single break I have, and then I am glad that I didn't put it off and now my time after classes are done for the day is free instead of doing homework assignments I could have completed during breaks in my day. But using these breaks is also great for assignments you know are going to take time (because you followed my earlier tip!) and you can make sure you are adequately keeping on pace to get tougher assignments done on time. You can also keep pace if the assignment has stuff not yet taught, but you can complete problems of the material as it was freshly taught. This also gives more time to schedule help from a professor or friend in the class if you need help on certain problems as you go through them. (pro tip: don't go to a classmate last minute to get help on an assignment that you can't do, and then get upset that they don't want to work around YOUR scheduled to help! some of us plan our time to complete shit so we have time to go to the gym, sleep, attend a meeting, or just do whatever the hell we want, so don't hate because you have a very specific time frame you want help that someone else doesn't want to have to work around. you want someone's help, be willing to work with their terms since they are the ones that planned to have the time they had to help you and are choosing to give that up for you. rant over.) No lie, I literally have had friends ask me to meet them at times that I planned on doing something else, and when I gave them when I was free and willing to help, sometimes they would say they couldn't do it because of some stupid thing they planned to do (aka, not related to going to class or another assignment). HELLO, this is why you are always trying to crank this out last minute! You don't plan and are not prioritizing school activities over fun activities.
And on that note, holy shit are you right about focusing on LEARNING the material. Yes we all want good grades and to have as great of a GPA possible, but that should not come at the expense of real learning. I would have friends in my classes that would spent extra hours studying on how to do some insane problems that a teacher might put on a test, and the extra 4,5,6+ hours is not worth the extra how many points you might get for completing it verse the bulk partial you might get because you were able to get pretty far. Most of the time, the problems have nothing to do with understanding the material anyway, you are just memorizing something, and you focused more time on that memorization of a few super insane problems than understanding the material of what you are being tested. The main goal of any class is to make sure you leave with good understanding of the material, and usually good grades will come with that if you have a professor that focuses testing and teaching on that as well. Do professors need to make sure they have a few challenging things to delineate students? Sure. But if you are wasting time trying to memorize super insane unrealistic problems your professor seems to like putting on tests, then you aren't spending time understanding material, and like you said, you just wasted your money. Especially if it causes you to not have time for other classes.
And that is why it is so important to do your research on professors. So glad you mentioned that. You don't want to have to drop a class or repeat a class because you wasted more time trying to navigate someone's insane teaching and testing practices. I had a professor whose tests looked NOTHING like homework and NOTHING like material we go through in class. And liked to have all of these pointlessly hard questions, especially after just stating that his tests were nothing like the homework or lecrured. After the first test, I should have noped out of there when I discovered this. I ended up late dropping it, and I am SO GLAD I DID, but I regret not dropping it earlier and saving myself the unnecessary torture. I took the same course next semester, the amount of time and effort was much more realistic, as were the tests, and I got a B+. I seriously was going to get a D the semester before. What does that tell you?
Some professors might give you the benefit of the doubt if you regularly see them during office hours, especially once you get out of "large lecture hall" classes and into your courses with much less students and they get to know you. There was a class I struggled with just based on the fact I needed more time to work through problems since a lot of the material didn't come naturally to me. I understood the material, but come test time, I would have issues getting through everything and my test grades would be a little lower than what I would be happy with (not fail, but we are talking C+ range consistently). I aced homework and projects and did understand the coursework. The professor knew I understood because I participated in class, and came to him regularly about getting extra time to understand material that I didn't grasp in class, and would see me be able to complete the assignments. He knew the places I bombed on tests were due to needing more time to work through those types of problems (we are talking about a C++ programming class - the free write coding questions were where I would struggle more). After applying the grading rubric, I probably should have gotten a B for the class, but I got an A, and I am pretty sure that is because he knew I knew the material and that was the most important part, and clearly knew I put the effort into it. Not all professors are like this, but you won't ever know if you don't get to know them outside of class and get a feel for their teaching and grading style and philosophy. I think any other student with the same grades as me would have ended up with the B, because that professor couldn't know that the student did have a better grasp of the material than the scoring showed.
TL:DR - Clearly this is something that yanks my chain even a decade later, but folks - research your teachers, look at your assignments early, plan out your time, and go visit your professors especially once you get into your smaller class courses. and remember, LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING are more important than spending 6 hours studying or staying up super late to memorize something pointless for an extra 10 points. Make sure you are learning with each class and assignment. I've seen people with an A in the class or on a specific test that were clueless about the material or the course and the person who got the B can explain things from memory. I saved weeks of time and sanity over the course of a semester focusing on wanting to learn and understand the coursework than trying being perfect over trivial things that didn't ultimately make me smarter. Many times my philosophy resulted in As and B+s, but assuming the professor was pretty decent and clear on material expectations, I always managed to get at least a B, and that was even in electrical engineering. I think I only ended up with 2 C+s, and those were in cases where late dropping wasn't a viable option (for various reasons) and the professor would have been the same next semester anyways so as long as I wasn't failing, it would't gain anything to repeat it.
Hi sorry but I absolutely love your little Appa painting its so cute!
Why is this legitimately the best video on TH-cam lol
i just moved in today for sophomore year & after i had a bit of a breakdown freshman year -lol- this was rlly great advice! thx syd
Okay but to the beginning Syd- I agree ssssssm. Literally I got a B- last tri in geometry and omg it still haunts my nightmares like WHAT why is that a thing and why am I so into the grades
I did my entire case study paper 3 hrs before it's due 😌 still got an A tho
Syd: "Your probably a lil baby freshie"
Me going into 8th grade: 👁👄👁
lmao, me too
i'm starting my third year of college and this video just got recommended to me... thank you syd!! i feel like this is destined lol
thank you 🥺
the "Community" references, what I like to see 😌
community is such a good show i’m glad its getting more popular
Yay this was so helpful
i'm going to college this month! super helpful!
This is beautiful! 😪😌
Syd plus Matthew plus Sam are literally my personality all together 😂 my parents want to sell me😂
I'm a junior in hs this year but bro I'm gonna use some of these cuz they're low-key kinda helpful-
(also I feel like dual enrollment kiddos this would help too!!)
I’m going into my 3rd year of college too & all I can say about this video is YES
your intros >>
Thank you sooo much for making this video I’m moving in in like two weeks and this is really helpful. Love the merch and love you!!
Yes, just just do your best y'all!! I'm a senior in college this fall and I have a 4.0 GPA but ultimately, you're at college to eventually find a job. And at most, you'll put relevant coursework or a super impressive GPA on your resume, but really, most employers won't care. So don't sacrifice your health or miss out on networking events or work experience just for a grade. Yes, grades are important, but if you're honestly trying your best then you should be fine.
Also, yeah. Use Rate My Professors fr. Cannot emphasize this enough.
Ugh we love the Greendale Community college speech at the beginning
Hi, love your videos.
going into my freshman year at psu but might just yeet over to pams branch campus
Yooo same really nervous tho 😬
Me too, I’m super nervous
after seeing whats been happening im glad i stayed home for 1st semester ://
Me: Just graduates from college
Also Me: still buys Pam's branch campus merch to support Sydney and because it looks dope
i’m a junior but i’m still gonna watch this 🤩
I needed this and I’m only going into my sophomore year of high school
im about to be a freshman in college and this helped so so much
Pam is my queen
I'm on my fifth semester on a university in south america, This applies to us as well, so if you are going to a uni in the south region Take note and listen🙏🏻
Tomorrow is my first day on my university adventure and oHhHhhH My anxiety is 10000%
And the sad shit it will be online :/
Pam's acting is on POINT