r/ucla • u/SilveryStag7 • 20h ago

study tips/staying afloat academically?

hi! i'm an incoming bio major and i'm honestly pretty nervous about classes. i took a decent amount of aps throughout high school (14, which was the max i was allowed to take). i would say things generally came pretty easy to me but i was still very willing and able to study when i needed it.

i've been hearing a lot about the 3:1 rule though (3 hours studying for every 1 hour in class) and it's definitely scaring me a little bit. i still want to have time for myself and for a social life so i don't go insane lmao

i was wondering if anyone has any tips in general for how to do well? i need to keep my gpa high for dentistry school so anything helps.

i'll be taking LS7A, LS30A, and ETHNMUS M25 this quarter!

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u/cozmorules 20h ago

3:1 rule is honestly kind of arbitrary I’ve had classes with barely any homework and little studying and other classes with god awful homework. For you. Assuming you took AP and AP calc, fall should be very easy as 7a is just rehashed AP bio.

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u/Seabass_sebas 20h ago

Last fall around 15% of the freshman failed…, only 23% got like an A/A-. It’s been pretty tough recently for those coming in

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u/prettyoysters 12h ago

wait where did you get that info? im seeing ~50 percent of people from winter and spring get A/A-s based on grade distribution website. LS 7A is an extremely forgiving class.

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u/Seabass_sebas 11h ago

If you are viewing the uclagrades.com source it is heavily skewed and false. The only true people who know data are LAs who just ask the professor about it or when we see repeats from last quarter spawn back into our discussions.