u/Cool_Alternative7555

I need a 96 on my final for algebra 2 to get an A in the class, and it’s next Wednesday. I’m a terrible procrastinator/always study for algebra last minute but I cannot do this for the last exam that determines my grade for the semester. Does anyone have good motivation tips/schedules/specific study methods for algebra 2? The final exam is 45 questions and we get 1 hour 57 minutes to do it so it shouldn’t be that bad time wise, but I just need to ensure I get no more than 2 questions wrong. I know it’s doable but not with the study system I have right now. I have 5 days to study. Help and thank you!

Hi. I’m in 9th grade and ever since the start of middle school I’ve always had As in my classes. I also CBEd math so I started algebra 1 in 7th grade so I’ve been building up my high school GPA since. I take all advanced/as many APs as I can. So the academic pressure is high. But I have extremely really bad procrastination, like procrastination where I’ll have a major project that we get 3 weeks to do and I end up starting it the night before and skipping school that day to just not submit it. And this second semester I’ve been really clinging on to a thread with my classes especially with algebra 2. I just had a test yesterday which I needed a 98 on to exempt the final and still have an A/4.0 unweighted for the semester or like a 75 and get a 100 on the final to still have an A. I got a 65. It was a 9 question test where we get 45 minutes and it was all on the computer so there was no partial credit we could receive with doing work like we had done the whole school year with paper tests. We didn’t even learn one question, or barely practiced it in class. I spent way too long on some of the questions. For the last two of the questions I had like 8 minutes left and I could’ve solved them but I couldn’t remember or focus at all because I was panicking and just guessed without really solving them. So the next 2 periods I literally just cried and I received my grade in 4th period which was a 65. So in lunch during school I just filed to exempt the algebra 2 final since there was no point in taking it or not taking it anymore since I was set with a B for the semester and I just didn’t want to study for it. Later today AFTER school the teacher gave everyone a 10 point curve. So now I have a 75 for that test grade and I believe if I get a 100 on the final and take the final. But I had already exempted algebra 2 and now I’m just gonna have to beg them to change it so I can take the final and even then I’m gonna have to study my ass off. Anyways right when I got home I slept and it’s currently 3:44am and I’ve been crying for the past hour because I realize that my GPA will never be a perfect 4.0 from now on. It’s the second last week of school and I feel like I’m just a failure and I put myself in this position but I literally still have an AP exam tomorrow which I haven’t STARTED studying for and a major project due today for another class which I’m so behind on. Old habits die hard I guess. I honestly just need advice or support or something right now. Thanks.