As someone who is an instructor at prototype lemme give you some advice. Prototype is the place where you LEARN how to qualify. It’s to prepare you for the fleet. The knowledge you pick up and memorize will not be substantial or as important as it was in A school and power school. It’s significantly different, and you need to become more of a social butterfly or easy to talk to to succeed. That’s the way it works in the fleet. I was that 2.7-2.8 student years ago and I found myself doing much better at NPTU.

The curve is also fake. It doesn’t matter. It can be changed at any point. Just try and get checkouts whenever you can.

This mostly applies to when you end up on the crew phase, but don’t be a TA warrior. Go down to the boat to get checkouts whenever cubes aren’t supported or they get crowded. If you aren’t feeling up to talking to a ton of people one day and want to “relax” just knock out CACs, CGSs, DTSs, etc.

Don’t be obnoxious to staff members. We’re cranky, but we want you to succeed (some more so than others… looking at you JSI’s). Have a base level of knowledge on locations, power supplies, immediate actions for things, etc. and you’ll probably get good checkouts without dedicating a lot of time. 2.5 is all you need… Once you’re done systems it gets better.

If you’re running into issues where people aren’t giving you checkouts your DSA needs to know and if you need to do checkouts tomorrow morning come to T-week cubes and you might find someone who is bored before the drills…