The Challenges of Honors Freshman Physics

Honors freshman physics will be challenging at best. After taking the first test, I think there are many ways I could have improved my score. I need to learn how to first attack a problem and how to interpret the question and then draw the correct diagram. After I successfully learn to do those two things, I think my test scores will definitely improve. Another challenge of this class is independence we have as students. Rather than being assigned homework to do in order to prepare for a test, we have to decide which problems to spend time on. I have trouble narrowing down the types of problems that I will have to be comfortable doing and I end up trying problems that we didn't even spend time on in class. To prepare for the next test,  my plan will be to review the types of problems that we do during class. Overall to succeed in this class I think I will have to figure out how to learn to solve problems on my own. Looking back, all other teachers never really showed us how to solve problems on our own; we always had all the information needed given to us. That's why this class is so challenging; we have to think about how to get the necessary information and also how to solve the problem.