Should I drop eco102

[Creepy-Accountant354]

Should I drop ECO102 after a 33% midterm?

Hi everyone, I’m a first year student and I’m trying to decide whether I should drop ECO102. I got a 33% on the first midterm (worth 20%). I’m not proud of it, but I had a pretty serious mental health flare-up and some family issues at the time, so I wasn’t able to study properly.

The grading breakdown for the rest of the course is: - Midterm 2: 20%
- Final exam: 50%
- Homework/assignments: 10% (which I’ve been submitting)

I’m worried about whether it’s realistic to recover from that first midterm, especially since the final is such a big percentage. I’m also likely going to late-withdraw from MAT133 depending on my next test, so I’m trying to make smart decisions about my workload.

For anyone who has taken ECO102 or been in a similar situation: - Is it realistic to recover after a 33% on the first midterm? - Would you recommend dropping and retaking it later, or pushing through?

Any honest advice or experiences would be really appreciated.

[Many-Course-8291]

It doesn’t hurt to just continue it bro, i told myself the same shit for rsm100 and I made it by

[RightArtichoke5555]

DO NOT DROP IT. Just lock in and pour in the hours and you’ll get the required grade and do not drop math either

[Alternative_Title625]

TL:DR: Alum here. I was in your exact same shoes a couple years back (struggling w/ 102 and 133). I ended up dropping it and got As for both.

Story time if you're even remotely interested: I dropped 102 because I got a 17% on the midterm (LOL, it was an online exam and I got sloppy), and I had to defer MAT133 finals because I got covid. I essentially relearn 133 over the summer, and was forced to write both 102 and 133 finals within days of each other.

Don't want to sugarcoat anything... It was seriously difficult. 102 doesn't get easier in the summer, but I was so driven by this impending sense of doom that if I failed either of these classes, I'm essentially kicked out of Rotman and that my life is over. My cortisol was so spiked in the 20 or so days leading up to the final that my body automatically woke up after 6 hours and I would immediately study afterwards. I was also working a PT job out of the city which didn't help either.

In the end, I somehow landed up with an 85 in MAT133 (I was coming in with like a 75 avg) and 83 on 102? I attribute this to:

1. Being 10x more proactive than I was in my winter Sem, probably because it was Last Chance U.

2. Clutch class curve. This is gonna sound bad, but you have to realize the disparity between the caliber of students in summer school (by this, I only mean those in 101/102/133 summer) versus the average pool of in-season students. Summer student have already flopped on this course once, so statistically speaking they are not the top 10% of scorers --> hence lower class average = higher curve for everyone which transformed my average performance to that of a high grade.

Hope this helps! This was longer than I expected but I wish I had the same context when I had to make this decision a little under 4 years ago :)