If the country is not stated, then it is presumed to be the US on HN? This advice is from another country, so check if it applies. Take math extremely serious.

If the country is not stated, then it is presumed to be the US on HN? This advice is from another country, so check if it applies. Take math extremely serious. I was TA for the math 101 module and out of 240 students, 140 registered for the exam with less than 40 passing. The big problem was complaciency. In the tutorial consisting of 20ppl students were probably ranking themselves, so I believe the thinking went like this: "well as it looks I am as good as almost all the other fellow students around here, well, maybe except these 4 guys in the first row, they seem to play a different game, well nevermind" Only these 4 mentioned guys passed. This is surprising for them, since in high school only the worst students failed. If your college forces the distribution to a bell curve, then nevermind (but still the math at uni is a different game). Actually what we saw in the exam results was a double peaked curve.