If you wish I will be glad to discuss our decision with you personally. What to do if you make a poor grade on a quiz or the first exam Confer with your teaching assistant immediately to discover what material was a problem for you and how best to correct it. Most students who do this improve their grades thereafter. If you need more specific guidance about what to focus on in the textbook, the newspaper, and in lecture, your teaching assistant please do not hesitate to ask for assistance. If your learning problems are of a more general nature, we will refer you to counselors in the Study Skills Center in Jester who are experts in teaching you how to prepare for exams, and what study habits work best.
Help is available, so be sure to take advantage of it.
It is difficult to take seriously students with long-standing problems who only come to us toward the end of the course, especially when they have missed numerous discussion sections. The University requirements for dropping a course are listed in your Course Schedule. If you have any questions about the reading assignment for a given day, you may raise them with me or your teaching assistants before or after class. Otherwise you may raise questions in your section, or in office hours. Please feel free to raise your hand and ask a question in lecture, especially if you believe an answer to it might be helpful to others as well.