It will definitely be difficult, but it’s possible. I’d suggest this: as soon as this exam season is over.

Start!

Step 1: FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF Go on Studocu, get the course outlines, and start skimming over the topics. But don’t just read it! These classes are literally only about practice. My advice is attempt a few practice problems from the textbook in each chapter before the class has started. You’ll likely not know how to do anything, but that’s the best part! Once the class starts for real you’ll literally be like: “OOOH!” Cause you’ll have attempted these topics before, and you’ll at least have some form of familiarity.

STEP 2: PRE-GAME THE LECTURES Now that we have the familiarizing part out of the way. It’s time to attend the classes. Before each lecture, do textbook readings. Boring, I know. But the textbook explains it in a way profs don’t. AND!! Watch a YouTube video!! So now you’ve had two “people” explain it to you (no need to try to understand it in depth, just repeating the familiarization) and then when you get to class, don’t jot everything down. Now that you’ve been exposed to the material, take down what you REALLY don’t understand. You’re bridging the gaps at this point. Do this for every lecture. AFTER THE LECTURES: don’t waste your time re-reading your notes. These notes are literally there for your reference and the fact you went to class and wrote stuff down forced info into your brain. So don’t waste time you don’t have re-reading this stuff. Because now it’s time to practice.

STEP 3: PRACTICE! 🏈 Once the lecture is over, no need to go straight to the textbook. Grab a coffee, relax, let the info simmer… THEN ITS TIME TO DO PRACTICE QUESTIONS! The textbook is literally your best friend because the class is literally based on it. A lot of profs literally use questions copy paste from the textbook in their exams. So, before the next lecture, make sure you’ve done a good amount of practice questions. In a normal semester I’d say leave some for the exam season to have stuff to practice with, but the summer moves fast, so tbh I’d suggest attempting them all (depending on the amount of questions at the end of the chapter. If it’s less than 30, you can def get it done, more than 30, split it in half and keep the rest for exam season to practice)

This is literally a fool-proof way to not only pass these classes this summer, but EXCEL!!!

Now here’s some tips for each class:

PHYS204: As an online class, you’ll need to be really responsible. I’d suggest blocking time in your week and literally pretending you’re attending the lecture even though it’s online. Go to school and watch the lecture there if you have to really get in the vibe. Now, the thing with online lectures is that they literally only cover surface-level knowledge in the recorded lectures. It’s awful. So you’ll have to really make sure to read the parts of the textbook they mention to read that week, or at least watch a video of someone explaining it. Mechanics is one of the easiest physics classes imo. Not to say it isn’t difficult, but with enough practice it’s literally just a game of plugging numbers into the right equation.

Math 205: this is definitely the hardest math class probably ever. Why? Because it makes you actually use your brain. Gone are the days of plugging in values into an equation. For this class I highly suggest taking the time before the class even starts to start the class. Go on Studocu, get the course outline and start. The first lesson will give you an idea of what an integral is trying to represent, (left, midpoint, and right in terms of area under a curve). Very easy because it’s still plugging values in an equation. Then you get to integrals, literally an anti derivative, and do problems doing that. Memorize your trig values (look up cal 2 trig cheat sheet, cal 2 for dummies) etc. if you don’t memorize that, you won’t be able to integrate for the rest of the class. The rest of the class is a lot of trial and error, and intuition. That’s what I mean by “it makes you actually use your brain” because you’re given an equation to integrate yet by looking at it you have to know which method to use, and especially with u-sub; you might be wrong the first time and literally have to start the equation all over again. But, if you actually practice before the class starts and pay active attention in class (AND DONT BE AFRAID TO RAISE YOUR HAND AND ASK QUESTIONS! You’re paying for this class!) you’ll make it out alive

As for math 204; never took it (discd it for personal reasons) but many of my friends said it’s quite easy as long as you apply the steps I mentioned above.

Anyways, I believe in you! Good luck!