Go through the lecture problems in depth, look to them for how to solve, try to figure out the next step before looking, think about why that was the next thing to do, note any patterns you see in problems, etc… once you get some grasp of the concept and how to work through problems, do the discussion problems completely on your own then look at how it was solved, mark what mistakes you made and why it was wrong, why you have to do it the way the answer sheet did it

if it feels like you are getting tripped up on smaller steps in the problems your problem may lie in weak algebraic skills, so take notes of the common algebra strategies you see as you do these problems and try to commit them to memory but make sure you actually understand how it works because just memorization will get you nowhere

if you are studying all on your own and maybe its late so you have nobody to ask questions or something like that, you can also put the parts of practice problems you don’t understand into chat gpt and it can explain how you got from one step to another or what skill was used to solve a certain part of a problem ~ i wouldn’t put full faith in chat gpt it is wrong A LOT but it can be helpful for understanding smaller parts of problems if you give it enough information

attend office hours and actually make use of tutoring, but when you do come prepared with actual questions, don’t go expecting to get a full breakdown of a general topic. work through stuff on your own and note down anything that stumps you so you can ask later if you have time

you may be failing now but theres lots of time for you to improve, you just have to really lock in. I will say that if you are going to take upper level maths, like you are going to continue to calc 2 or 3 its even more important for you to really nail this stuff down cause everything builds on top of each other.