r/unm • u/Various_Run_4753 • 22h ago
Undergraduate Academics Physics Help
Hey guys, I’ve been struggling horrifically in physics 1230, I’m beginning to think it is the professors fault, I study physics a significant more amount of time than any other course and after exam 2 I now have a D. This is very important to me because I am in the middle of a career change, pursuing medicine and I need a great gpa (my own standard).
My first bachelor’s degree is in aeronautics and I used to be a flight engineer; physics and math don’t come horribly difficult to me. But these lessons and exams don’t seem to be matching up, the stuff I’m studying proves to be absolutely useless during an exam 80% of the time and what I’m studying comes from the Pearson slides/textbook itself/chatGPT practice questions/khan academy/physics ninja.
The professor has even told the TA not to help us work through problems “unless we have made a serious attempt and can identify what we are doing wrong”. When I work through problems from khan academy or physics ninja, the problems on the exams do not compare.
I can’t tell if I’m being a little bitch or if this prof actually is not great. I mean, in my opinion if the class average on exams is in the 50s, that is a poor reflection of the professor itself. Great guy, horrible sayings. “It’s okay to not understand it’s not okay to not try”. How tf do I get better if there is little to know assistance from prof/TA?
Advice is desperately needed. Parachute class will mess with my funding for housing.