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Get a High GPA the easy wayApr 02 '01 Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line You don't have to give up your social life and endure endless nights of studying to get high grades. Here are some tips from a recent college grad. My advice is helpful for those college students who want to get by with mostly B's with minimal amount of studying or heartache. If you want to attend a good graduate school, then my advice may be of some help. If your goal is to get through school with an above average GPA, I can definitely help you with that. I graduated from UCLA in 2000. Also, no employer has ever asked for my GPA thus far. Get to know students a year ahead of you. Ask them which professors to take or avoid. This will save you a lot of heartache. Some professors simply grade easier and require less work than others. Also don't forget to get your newfound friend's notes, exams, and papers for classes you will take. Often professors are too busy to change exams meaningfully, so if you have a copy of questions or exams, you've narrowed down the class content to the important stuff. Plus by meeting students only a year ahead of you, their information will be the most up-to-date. Take classes where the content never changes. For instance, History and political science content rarely change. So for electives, I took a bunch of History classes like WW2 or 20th Century. Why? Because you won’t have to go to class to find out what is being taught. Usually professors hand out an outline of class content. All I would do is go on the net and read up on the topic. Since the content never changes like the events around WW2, I could read at home and never go to class except to take a test or turn in a paper. Take classes where the content is the same. Many classes are very similar. I took History of Los Angeles, History of California, and Native American History. Since these courses have the same content, I didn’t have to study as much because I already knew about it. Also, when I wrote papers, I could add information from a similar class and the professor thought I was putting in extra time into my topic. Scour the Schedule of Classes for obscure, fun & easy classes. I found a class called Food & Symbolism under Folk Culture. It was an easy class where the professor brought us food, we watched movies with food as a theme, and the exams were a breeze. Some of my friends found an easy science class called Atmospheric Sciences to cover their science requirements. Focus on the class notes more than the books. Professors when lecturing usually summarize or pull out the main points from the books. In my experience, 80-90% of an exam is mostly from lectures. I took many classes where I received a B or A by just studying lecture notes and did not even buy the book. In my senior year, I don’t remember buying a book, which also saved me money. Use the Internet as a Research Tool. Forget about going to the library and searching for books that are often checked out. Use high technology - almost any topic can be found on the Internet. What was great is a topic is summarized on the Net so I didn’t have to read a lot of text to get to the main points. This saves a lot of time from reading lengthy books while allowing me to focus on the important stuff. Take classes you like. You will do better in classes you enjoy. If you are naturally interested in a class content, you will listen more during class and retain more information. If you have any other tips, I’d love to hear it.  |
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