If Your First Semester Is Going Badly, Watch This Before Finals
Your midterms came back lower than you expected, or you failed a quiz you were sure you’d be fine on, and finals are a few weeks away. The usual response is to study harder. You sit with your notes for three hours, the next result comes back about the same, and the voice saying “maybe I’m just not a uni person” gets a little louder.In this video, I walk through what I’d do with the weeks you have left. I start with a grade check where you sort each weak result into one of four causes: how you studied, your timing, a gap from early in the semester, or life getting in the way. Each cause has a different fix. Then I show you how to work out the score you need on each remaining assessment, and how to build a calendar backwards from your first final, with 45 to 50 minute focus blocks and one empty buffer day a week. I also give you a four-line email to send your lecturer, ways to get more out of lectures (including SQ3R and a same-day recall), and a study routine that starts with practice questions before you open your notes, tracks your mistakes and mixes topics.
I failed about half of my first-year courses, so I also talk about what a bad semester does and doesn’t say about you. Mid-November is still early enough to change a lot in three or four weeks.
This month I’m running Beat the Clock. If you join my coaching before November 30, we start working with you straight away, and your three-month programme doesn’t start until January 1, so the rest of 2026 is on us. There are only 10 spots, and not everyone is accepted. Apply for a 1:1 call here: https://calendly.com/tomsteam/study-strategy-call
Videos mentioned:
https://youtu.be/O07bQnM6ZpI
https://youtu.be/qidecesfRxQ
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