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by WalterBright 3200 days ago
What worked for me (Caltech) was to make sure I understood 100% of all the homework problems front to back, before going in to the exam.

Living in the dorms helped enormously with this, because I could usually find someone to help me with particular problems, and I sorely needed that help.

Anything less meant I was in deep doodoo on the exam :-) because that's the wrong time to try to figure out how to apply what was learned in lecture.

This was good enough to reliably get a B. To get an A, I had to work much harder and go beyond the homework.