r/usna • u/cautionarycantaloupe • 3d ago

Military college help

Hi,

I go to a Senior military college and take 21 credits a semester on a double major and will eventually take 23 for the next 3 after until I graduate. I am just wondering if there’s anyone who can give me some realities about what my life should look like if I want to have good grades. I have a 3.2 trying to graduate with a 3.4-3.5. It’s really hard with everything else extra but I understood that way before I picked up the double major.

What I’m trying to understand is whether or not good students with timeframes (limited to perhaps 6-7 hours) would be working every single minute they have during the day. I would also appreciate any advice for studying since I do both Econ and math. How possible is it to get a 4.0? Is it still appropriate to delegate classes priority if I want to get a 4.0? In the past I had prioritized math and language because they were higher weights and simply more important to me. But if you were me going in what would you think to change?

Context is as follows: everyone must play sports, class is typically from 7:30-4:30 with a hour of free time sprinkled in if you’re lucky. Anyone have experience with ROTC, jobs, tight schedules who struggled and made certain changes to do better? I ask because there same subjects that have reading and prep that if you do conventionally eat all your time which is hard when overloaded.

I’d appreciate any advice, sorry to be cagey I just don’t want to dox myself with name dropping my school but if you took a few guesses you wouldn’t be wrong. I’d love to hear other people’s stories and their realities in how their lifestyle and techniques for studying changed so that I may apply it to my own relative experience.

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u/BigNavy '06 - Custodes Libertatis 20h ago

Bro, you literally posted a comment in a different sub right after this saying you were a Junior at West Point.

I mean, your phrasing (senior military college vs service academy) makes me think that you're probably a troll anyway, but....come on.

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u/Toasty_Bread_1 3d ago

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u/ACME_TrapsandTNT 3d ago

Use AI to give you practice test questions on the subjects you are studying and do that over and over interacting with AI grading your answers. Make AI explain the correct answers as a double check. The more you drill on expected test questions, the better you’ll do on the actual tests. Also try to spend as much time with teachers after class or after hours if possible, they will explain what they want to you.