Below are the experiences of a particular erudite and points that may be useful for any serious student who wishes to retain his or her current CGPA .
Study every single day, not even a day out (first day of lessons included), at least from 3 pm to 9 pm.
Do a lot of practice exercises: I finished all the practice books and wrote down every exercise I struggled with. Every month I would go back doing all those exercises in the list until I could solve them all.
Make sure you pay attention to the smallest details: I knew extremely well even those parts of the program the professor didn’t stress too much on.
Always attended lectures: now I’m not such a huge fan of lectures, because I think that for the written part of the exam (the hard core maths / physics exercises) what matters most is how much you practice alone. BUT for the oral part of the exam (we had 2 parts: the written test and the oral part where they asked you about theorems, etc), having attended lectures makes a significant difference, mostly because professors like to hear things in the way they know and/or taught them. And if you study from a book things will be similar, but not necessarily exposed in the same way.
In general I can tell you that to obtain a 4.0 you have to be obsessed with time management and with getting a 4.0. You have to do every thing hunting that 4.0: e.g. you don’t understand something, even a little detail? You don’t skip it: you sit back and dive into it as long as it takes to understand it.
Oh, and those semesters where those when I had a total commitment to university, sacrificing all the extracurriculars (I only kept to go to the gym 3 times a week), studying saturday night too.
One last thing, that mustn’t become an excuse, but that is equally important: LUCK plays a huge role. There were times where I knew everything perfectly but I managed badly my anxiety during the exam or made a mistake out of distraction on some basic algebra and I did poorly, while others I had skipped a whole chapter and I still got an A.
But the main thing that I believe should prevent you from getting to fixated on a 4.0 is that it’s a pursuit that deprives you from the pleasure of learning things for the sake of curiosity: everything becomes something to master just to get a high grade…and I think that college is more than this!
Grade A should always be in your mind for every course, don't read for B grade ,mediocres read for grade B.
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