How to Improve your grades after a Poor Midterm Exam

Dear students, today we will discuss how you can improve your grades after a Poor mid term exam. First of all sit back and relax. Now is the time when you should be calm and prepare a plan, get help from friends or classmates, talk to your teacher and focus all your efforts and energy toward study and good grades in your next exam.

How to get good grades after poor mid term exam

Improve your grades after a Poor Midterm Exam.

Here is list of Tasks You should do after a Poor Mid Term Exam to improve your grades in Final Term Exam.

1. Be Calm and Focus on Future Success.
2. Manage Your Routine to Double Study Time.Studying only Remainig Book is not a Solution.
3. Review the Mid Term Exam Questions and Concepts.
4. Make a Time Management Plan to Complete the Course in Time.
5. Get Help from Friends, coursemates and Instructors.
6. Discuss Paper Pattern with Your Course Instructor.

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Be Calm and Focus on Future Success

Worrying too much about the poor grades will only cause you to loose time and focus on your future success. Learn from your mistakes. Calculate how much time you spent studying before midterm and prepare a plan to get good grades in your coming final term exam.

Manage Your Routine to Double Study Time

If you get poor grades in your mid term exam, its obvious that the effort you did to prepare for mid term exam wasn't enough. Its high time you need to manage your daily routine to double the recommended time for studying.

After getting poor grades in mid term exam, many students start assuming that they didn't study enough but trust me, just feeling pity on yourself isn't going to help. Poor grades should be a wake up call for you.

Time management is now very important for you at this point. You have to find more time to dedicate to your study in order to achieve good grades in your coming final term exam.

Studying only Remainig Book is not a Solution

After getting poor grades in mid term exam many students tend to choose to study the remaining book with more focus. But to get good grades in final exam you need to study and understand all the course material.

Let me explain futher, the poor grades in mid term is pointing toward lack of understanding of half course. Jumping to the remaining course topics without understaning the previous fundamental course topics will not result in good grades in final term.

It is as hard as it sounds, without falling behind your course schedule you should not waste anymore time and start studying right away.

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Review the Mid Term Exam Questions and Concepts

Now you need to analyze what went wrong on the Mid term Exam. For that you should review questions and concepts on the Mid term exam. Although its not a easy thing to do replaying the whole process which may remind you of your poor preparation for Mid term exam. Be positive about it.

Make a Time Management Plan to Complete the Course in Time.

Practically speaking, Making a time management plan is not always easy specially if you are doing it after getting poor grades in midterm exam.

Your mind could trick you into thinking that if you couldn't get good grades in half course how could you now be able to get high grades in full course in half time. Don't worry be calm.

Make a time management plan, draw a table and choose reading time, study time and practise time in your daily routine and stick to the schedule.

You need to spend at least twice the time to study your course material.

Read the complete course and make notes. Review your lecture notes, perform practice excersices, and answer sample questions.

During your Practice time, solve sample Questions similar to your mid term exam i.e., Past Papers or MCQs.

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Get Help from Friends, Coursemates and Instructors

Next task for you is to get required help from your friend or your coursemate who got good grades in midterm exam. Help may also include speaking to other students to find out how they got successful in getting good grades.

Find and download past papers from our blog to practise MCQs and Long / short Question Answers.

Discuss difficult topics with your Course Instructor. Don't hesitate to ask questions to clear your concepts.

Discuss Paper Pattern with Your Course Instructor.

Sometimes Course Instructor wants specific answer or values. If you failed to mention that specific answer or values that might explain your low grades in midterm Exam. Always write to the point answers , be specific in what you want to explain. Show interest in the topics and ask questions.

Keep studying and focus your energy and time to get high grades in your coming Final Term exams. 

Hope this article was helpfull. If You have any Questions share with us in comments section below.

Wish you Good Luck for your next Exam. Thank You.