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4 Comments on “Horrible at Math, how am I ever going to pass classes in college?”

1. 
   eri
   June 4th, 2010 at 11:10 am

   If you’re not willing to get a tutor, you’re obviously not willing to put in the necessary work to understand the material. Sometimes math comes easily to people, and sometimes it requires a lot of work on your part and all the resources you can get your hands on – extra problem sets, professor office hours, and tutoring services. If you really do want to get a college degree, you have to start putting in the work. This isn’t high school – you don’t get an A for showing up.

2. 
   caycaybaybay
   June 4th, 2010 at 11:47 am

   If you dont want to get a tutor , try asking your professer for more help when you dont understand it. they cant help you if you dont ask.

3. 
   Mr. Yoso
   June 4th, 2010 at 12:01 pm

   Well obviously, you are not ready to succeed unless you are willing to do EVERYTHING to pass. There’s no easy way out in graduating, you have to work hard for it.

   Nobody can teach you the will to study and succeed but yourself.

   Good luck.

4. 
   mcdisney2001
   June 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

   Don’t worry; not all college classes are math classes!

   I started college 20 years after I dropped out of high school, and remembered *nothing* of math. They placed me in a non-credit math class for beginners, to bring me up to speed, and then I took my regular college math class.

   Choose a major that requires very little math. I’m an English major, so I only had to take one math class (all majors require at least one). If you want to avoid math, go for something in the arts, or social sciences, like English, Communication, Art, Anthropology, etc. Avoid majors like Chemistry, Nursing, Computer Sciences. Business majors will also require more math.

   Are you in high school, or college? If you’re in high school, just struggle for that passing grade, and go to a community college, or a university that isn’t super-selective (no Harvard or Yale). Then take the non-credit math class for beginners while you’re taking your other courses, and if you fail it the first time, no worries, because classes that are non-credit don’t affect your college GPA! Take it two or three times if necessary. Then just take your one required math class for your major, and tell math not to let the door hit it on its way out, LOL!

   Don’t worry too much! Being bad at math doesn’t mean you’ll stink in your other subjects. I stink at math, and I’m on the Dean’s List.

   Also, the Math for Dummies books rock! I used one for my pre-algebra class (Math 25), and it really helped.

   Good luck, and don’t panic; you can do this!