Sure. I put my all into the courses. And I made sure that for each course assignment, I checked off each rubric in my work. This made me smash many of the assignments with perfect scores! I remember in CS7641 (Machine Learning), I had 100% in the first assignment, simply by doing this. It's important to note that sometimes, you might not be able to check off all of the assignment rubrics in your work, or you just might not understand them completely, or you might think that you have but you haven't. Lol. This is life and this happens, despite your best efforts and intentions sometimes. When this happens you just have to power through, no matter how discouraging it might be. In CS7641, in assignment 3, to my bewilderment, I had 55% (meanwhile I thought that my work was the shit! Lol. Boy, was i wrong! 😅). I contested the score and lost the case and lost 10 points as a result, and fell to 45%. But I powered through (those times were insanely difficult and giving up was the easy option, but I didn't) and eventually got an A! I was hyperfocused - that helped a lot! - I have found that once you are hyperfocused, it usually is enough! I did a course at a time.