Airjordan Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Hey, guys I am a first time user on this site and was looking for some advice. I am in my 2nd year and I just had an exam today and it went terrible. I knew while I was writing the exam that it wasn't unfair so it came down to my lack of preparation + staying up late. I am coming off a bad first year and it basically gave me motivation to do really well in 2nd year, however I don't know what's happening recently I am losing motivation to work, I am guessing I am burning out. I am going to approach the professor on monday with the hopes he might re-weight a part of this exam for me, I had a midterm for the class already and it went well. Does anyone have advice for how to regain my motivation, prevent burnout and how to explain the situation to my prof thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airjordan Posted March 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Second year* first term Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerena Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Hey, guys I am a first time user on this site and was looking for some advice. I am in my 2nd year and I just had an exam today and it went terrible. I knew while I was writing the exam that it wasn't unfair so it came down to my lack of preparation + staying up late. I am coming off a bad first year and it basically gave me motivation to do really well in 2nd year, however I don't know what's happening recently I am losing motivation to work, I am guessing I am burning out. I am going to approach the professor on monday with the hopes he might re-weight a part of this exam for me, I had a midterm for the class already and it went well. Does anyone have advice for how to regain my motivation, prevent burnout and how to explain the situation to my prof thanks again. I'm not really sure what you mean by re-weighting a part of the exam. Do you mean that you would want your professor to make your second exam weigh less than the first one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apache Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 i wouldn't worry about "what's happening", burning out when going for med school is normal, it's not normal to sit around and do that much reading for that many hours a day, especially if you're not interested in what you're learning about. maybe you have add, go see the school psychologist and you can get some testing done that will give you extra time for exams, be able to delay assignments and tests, medications if you want. they can also teach you study technique and refer you to student learning services (which offers all of these sorts of learning programs). Hey, guys I am a first time user on this site and was looking for some advice. I am in my 2nd year and I just had an exam today and it went terrible. I knew while I was writing the exam that it wasn't unfair so it came down to my lack of preparation + staying up late. I am coming off a bad first year and it basically gave me motivation to do really well in 2nd year, however I don't know what's happening recently I am losing motivation to work, I am guessing I am burning out. I am going to approach the professor on monday with the hopes he might re-weight a part of this exam for me, I had a midterm for the class already and it went well. Does anyone have advice for how to regain my motivation, prevent burnout and how to explain the situation to my prof thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airjordan Posted March 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 The first one was first 15%, the second was 20%, I just want to try to make him push part of the weight from the second exam to the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airjordan Posted March 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 I've actually thrown up the ADD as a possible problem in the past; however if I am under the appropriate stress, I can rip hard for 4-6 hours straight I just need to get that stress again some how. The stress of maintaining a GPA is just not cutting it for me right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brainz Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 You still have 65% of the mark as undecided. That's a huge percentage. Even getting 50% on a 20%-weight test = only 10 marks lost in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerena Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Not saying this to offend you, but as a TA I have a feeling your excuse would not fly with your professor. I mean, you could definitely try and you might get lucky, but I just don't think that your reasoning for having a portion of this exam count towards your final is very strong. Your professor would only do this for you and not his entire class, and unless you had a note from a doctor, I don't your idea would be successful. As for burning out, I had the same thing happen to me. It started around the end of second year, beginning of third year (those were my worst terms). And I thought that doing poorly in the last half of my second year would make me more motivated. I know we all (premeds) get burned out for different reason - for me it was struggling to keep up with a degree program that was above my head, encountering deaths in my family/group of friends for the first time, and personal issues I was going through. It was not good. But, you have to remember what your goal is and why you are putting up with undergrad in the first place. You don't have much longer of this semester. Pump through it and do your absolute best because summer vacation is right around the corner! I'd suggest you take a bit of a break this summer and try to come back to life. Hang out with your friends, don't put so much pressure on everything. One bad test is just that - it's one bad test. I've gotten 60% on an advanced ochem midterm and I still managed to get an A in the end! And I found out about that terrible midterm mark right before the add/drop date, so I could have dropped it easily, (the exam was worth 20% - yikes) but I studied my ass off for the second midterm (92%) and the final (90%). Don't worry about your midterm if it turns out you cannot put more weight on your final. It seems like you know the material, seeing as you did well on midterm 1. Excluding your second midterm, what have you gotten up to this point? You said your first exam was good, what about everything else in the class? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattg Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 there is absolutely zero chance your prof will reweight anything for you due to your "lack of motivation" there's no good way to word it to him/her, it's not happening - no offence... i would be completely shocked if you got it re-weighted, and it would be extremely unfair to the rest of the class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airjordan Posted March 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 I should have probably mentioned this but partly the reason why I wasn't so focused is because me and my girlfriend broke up 2 days before the exam. I realize it's not a solid excuse, but when you're with someone for two years it hurts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattg Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 sorry to hear that but still extremely unlikely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hastin11 Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Unfortunately mattg is right. What your requesting would be extremely unlikely (I would guess below a 1% chance). As others have said, your real recourse is to just kill the exam. Just start going to the library and cramming for it a few weeks in advance and it is very likely you can make up for your midterm with a 65% exam. It is definitely tough to go through a break-up, and I guess explain this to your prof if you are going to beg for a rewrite/reweight, but I seriously doubt this will help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylamonkey Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 You might even have a better chance if you do well on the other exams you have in that course. An exam score that's 20% below all your other scores, it might be ok to talk to the prof then. But really, when students go and talk to profs about this sort of thing, that's what gives "premeds" a bad reputation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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w8kg6 Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 I should have probably mentioned this but partly the reason why I wasn't so focused is because me and my girlfriend broke up 2 days before the exam. I realize it's not a solid excuse, but when you're with someone for two years it hurts. That's tough to hear, but unfortunately that's how life goes. I think you would be better off spending your time coming up with strategies to focus rather than devising a way to ask your prof to re-weight the exam. I can't imagine that the latter will be fruitful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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