Pre Calculus: Student Analysis

Describe the most challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

In The New Yorker article College Calculus by John Cassidy, a lot of new information about college degrees and where we might be headed with college degrees was argued for. One point brought up, was that a lot of people are getting vocational degrees in order to appear much more valuable compared to other applicants in a job. I have often heard that the best type of degrees to get were those having to do with Doctoring, Lawyering, and other science fields. However when the article pointed out that businesses are hiring many people with vocational degrees, because businesses tend to want people to be able to communicate with their costumers, and with other people, I thought of the possibility of taking a class in speaking in college in order

My struggles with math reach back as long as I can remember, but they all really materialized for the first time in fifth grade. In spite of being an otherwise strong student, I was really having a tough time keeping pace in math class. It was at this time my parents and teachers intervened in my education and I was issued an Individual Educational Plan. I was moved to a math class in the special education department, and received one-on-one tutoring. While from an adult point of view this may seem like a beneficial change, for a student closing in on middle school and trying to fit in with friends, it was a huge bow to my confidence. I feared being

Response: I remember struggling when it came to knowing anything about college and the whole process. So during summer, I join a college prep camp, it was a week-long camp. I learned a lot more about college and how easy it was to apply. They taught me about financial aid and about scholarships. How to spend your money wisely. Another educational challenge I faced was the SAT, I knew I needed help with that test. I knew nothing about it, I didn't know any strategies to help me. So I went to a month-long tutoring session, for three days out of the week. During the tutoring session, the tutors were showing us stuff like eliminating the wrong answers to get the right answers. At first, I kept scoring 500s on practice tests but when I took the

Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

One of the biggest challenges i’ve faced would have to be when I attended SOAR High School. SOAR High School is a very educational based school, where students are required to take college courses along with rigorous high school courses. It took a lot of thinking and debating to whether or not I should apply, I was not sure if I was ready for this opportunity, the idea of taking taking college and High School classes seemed overwhelming, however, I decided to apply. I did not attend the Preparatory School for SOAR, which meant I would be progressing from a normal Junior HIgh School into an advanced High School. Once I got accepted we had to enroll in our College courses, the process of this was really exasperating, since prior to this I never

I am an 8th grade student at R.A. Brown Middle School in Hillsboro Oregon. And I have been learning about the history of our country's democracy, and our rights as citizens of the United States. I am writing this to address an issue that is very important to me and many others, and to give you advice as you become the 45th president!

An educational barrier I have faced was my first A.P. class. It was world history and I had the option to enroll in that course during my sophomore year in high school. I took the class because I wanted to test myself at the college level and apply for college credit. I knew it was supposed to be more demanding than regular high school classes, but I did not expect it to be extremely burdensome and the pace was incredibly quick. There was classwork, but it wasn’t too difficult. The homework was a different story. It took a long time to complete. The teacher wanted to complete one chapter a week, so the students were driven study a chapter’s worth of material in one week. I overcame that class because I did not give up. I stuck with that class

There are many challenges I have faced during the course of my education which combined both academic and non-academic facets. I have had more than just one term during my time at Wayne State University that presented a challenge to me in terms of academics. Most of these challenges had to be met with an increasing amount of focus and a change in study strategies to overcome. There is one sequence of terms in particular that was most challenging. During the fall and winter semesters of my junior year I had just began to take upper level biology courses which included Anatomy & Physiology and Human Physiology. These classes make up the very core of my career path and also play well to my interests. What made this specific term difficult was the fact that I underestimated the amount time and focus needed to understand subjects that would eventually mean the most. This eventually lead to poor performance in those courses but also a turning point in terms of how I approach my courses.

The main conflict in “Seventh Grade” is internal because it takes place in Victor’s mind. I know this because in the passage Victor struggles for confidence to impress a girl named Teresa. In the “Melting Pot” the conflicts are external because they take place between different groups of people in a neighborhood who do not get along because of their culture.

The biggest challenge that I faced was doing research at school. The reason it was hard is because of the school's

I love teaching, and there will always be those who need extra help. Last year, when I accepted the task of tutoring one of my peers in Algebra II, I was excited to start, despite the looming challenges. The version of the course I took was different from the version that my classmate was taking, and so I needed to figure out her teacher’s methods and then immediately turn around and explain them to her. There was a period of trial and error, but within a few weeks, we had a system that worked smoothly. The satisfaction of watching her go into a test confident, and come back happy with her grade was well worth the many hurdles.

Despite writing several essays, I fully believe that my best work this year is the creative writing assignment that I did for “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. The time constraints for the class essays and the source citing for the research papers are two things that bring a heavily negative effect on my essays. The time constraints usually make my conclusions very hastily put together, and a bad ending to an essay is usually what prevents my essay grades from being higher. The recent research paper that I was assigned to do for Romeo and Juliet shows that I need to work on my usage of source materials and how to cite them correctly.

The most significant challenge I have faced was balancing my academics and sports. I have been involved in the boy's soccer program at Palm Desert High School since my freshman year and each season has proven to be a test for me academically. I must say that attempting to balance my school work and soccer during my freshman and sophomore year has taken a toll on my academic achievement. It is unfortunate, however, I learned many things that will benefit me in the future. It was difficult because stress and anxiety amounted on top of all the school work and assignments that needed to be completed with the little time I had in my hands. Each season lasted around four months and during those four months, I accumulated bad habits. I procrastinated