Well I joined FAST Isb BSCS Batch of 2017 Fall, with very high hopes but to no surprise like everyone said the teaching is purely pathetic, I did my A-level from Roots, 82% equivalency in Fsc, two months in, one of my classmate had a serious panic-attack due to overburden and the lack of understanding he had from our teachers, I know this because that's pretty much all the guy talked about in uni and in hostel. yaar samjh nhi arha, yaar exams ka Kya karun ga etc.( he was hostelling ), unfortunately he passed away two days ago after being on a ventilator for 15 days. I'm also struggling by a large margin, failed both my midterm exams purely because what was in the paper was not what we were taught in class or book or assignments, copy paste questions from the web, I even did the past papers but to no purpose still no luck passing. I see students who have done a year of BsCS from other universities coming here are doing very well but the rest of us are struggling badly. Im under a Heep load of stress I honestly don't wanna go their tmrw. I just applied for NET-1 right now online and also applied for 141 L/C of the army. I need some suggestions on what to do now, stay in FAST repeat a semester and spend an extra year or leave and join NUST and spend a extra year still or the army with no prior military family background except my Uncle who is a Colonel in Airforce.
Suggestions advice anything will do me good about now.
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Right so first of all, I am not a professional counselor, so take my advice with a grain of skepticism.
I am not going to talk about the, unfortunate and sad incident with your friend, and focus on the main question of the thread.
Teaching in universities is mostly "teacher dependent" rather than institution dependent. i.e you are not guaranteed to find amazing teachers in NUST, and not every teacher in FAST is going to be bad. I would actually go on further one step and say 80% of teachers in FAST must be capable enough and you will find a few difficult teachers. Note, by difficult I dont mean that the subject is too difficult for them or you - I mean with regards to personality mismatch, and thus transfer of knowledge mismatch.
Coming myself from Alevels, I found that in universities the style of education in even most universities is still "less Alevels" styled and more "FSC/Inter" style. Not saying either is bad or good, just saying its a different style, that you - as I - had to adjust to. Understand that university education is as much about understanding what exact teacher wants, rather than exactly what the course is about.
What I will do is tell you what I did, and maybe you can find something hidden in there which might help you out. So what helped me was reaching out and making friends with knowledgeable and smart kids in my class. I didnt do this purposefully, but we all knew that we wanted to achieve good grades and we knew that all of us brought some expertise.
This was a group of 5 initially, as we were interested in learning and this grew to around 12 people when we were passing out. All of us had made "friends" or got on good terms with different teachers, and we kinda knew what was expected or what kinda answers were expected in the exams. This is not to say we didn't work extremely hard, we did.
We studied together after school, spent some time in library, completed our work, took lectures and relayed on eachother's skillset - but going in this journey with a likeable and smart group of friends really helped all of us. When we passed out, none of the us (12 guys) got a cgpa of below 3.0, this is not to say that all of us were genius or "cheetahs", but all of us raised our cgpas in last 4/5 semesters.
I cant suggest either to stay in FAST or go to another uni, but understand that you ARE coming from a different type of educational background and find a group of friends who want to go where you want to be, also if you want to talk about the pressuers you are facing, finding a professional therapist/counselor to talk about things is a good thing not a bad one.
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