I am a non-traditional student who is taking Statistics at a community college. It's been more than 10 years that I was in HS and they taught Stats briefly. The rest was Calculus. I never paid attention, my family never went to school so they didn't care to push me. I ended up graduating HS without knowing square roots, decimals, percentages, inequalities and so on.

I started Stats this semester. The exams weight the most on the grade. I get stressed when there is an exam and yeah, that plays a role. But most students in class are traditional students and finish everything so quickly, so the professor is increasing the difficulty of these exams. I told her I don't know basic math and she doesn't believe me.

My last Stats exam was about distributions such as z, t and Chi. I ask Chatgpt to help me with concepts and I memorize well. But the professor changed wording in this exam and I got lost. I am so worried about my cumulative exam in December, I feel I will fail.…