How to Do Well in Your STEM Classes

Learning can feel difficult, but it doesn’t have to be.

Joseph Mellor
22 min readJan 26, 2023
Photo by Dan Cristian Pădureț on Unsplash

We’re a few months into the semester and a lot of students are a little stressed. Midterms are coming up or have already come up and I’ve been getting a lot more students asking me to tutor them. While I can only tutor so many students at a time, I can publish an article that can reach a lot more people. In this article, we’re going to talk about my general approaches to doing well in STEM classes. If you have any recommendations, please leave a response.

A Sense of Scale

Before I get into the article, I want to make it clear that you don’t need to do everything in this article, especially if you just want to get by in a class instead of becoming an expert in the field. You should only do everything I recommend if you’re trying to get a perfect score on all your tests and homework. Everyone else should take the pieces of advice they find most helpful.

With that being said, none of these ideas are mutually exclusive, so you could do all of them…

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Joseph Mellor

BS in Physics, Math, and CS with a minor in High-Performance Computing. You can find all my articles at https://josephmellor.xyz/articles/.