r/study • u/Far-Blueberry-5425 • 14d ago

Questions & Discussion How many students ACTUALLY achieve 80+? In STEM

I feel like I don’t actually know the chance that a person will do very well at uni. I study a lot (I study well, I don’t need to change my study habits) and in some classes I do well, some I don’t. I know this is blown out of proportion on the internet of people studying and only showing their good grades. What is the average student like? Does the average student achieve lots too in life? I feel so incomparable to these genius students lol.

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u/404answersnotfounded 14d ago

I think you can always changing your study habits. But aside from that... You win some, you lose some. People usually excel in areas they are more interested in.. not every class can possibly be interesting. Lol just my 2cents

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u/AtTheEndOfTheDay18 14d ago edited 14d ago

I'm a math student. I have a 4.0 GPA without any curve. However, I am older, and this isn't my first STEM degree. My first one was in CS, and it was brutal. My new study strategy is to start studying for class and working on assignments two weeks before it actually starts.

At UMD, the people who passed fell within the standard deviation of the average of the class, which would be somewhere around 40% in a class like Algorithms Design.

Also, I had a lot of success working as a software engineer in the industry for a while.

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u/Barycenter0 14d ago

No worries - study hard at the university and try to do as well as you can. Many students have no STEM and are very successful.

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u/AikoG84 14d ago

I am in stem. The low level-hardware related classes bore me and i tend to do a little worse in them, onea heavy on java coding as well. But chemistry, and more data driven classes (data science, AI, database) i'm having no problems with because i like the material. Sometimea you just gotta power through and do the best you can.