Can I still get a 3.0 or higher GPA at FAST after bad mids?

It might be possible, but a midterm on its own doesn't tell you where you'll end up. Before you decide anything, find out four things for each course: how the marks are split, how much you've already earned, how much is still to come, and how your instructor turns the final total into a letter grade. At FAST, in-semester work (midterms, assignments, quizzes) normally makes up 50% of a course and the final exam makes up the other 50%, but check your own course outline because a few courses differ.

Here's the maths. Take every assessment that has been marked and convert it to its weighted share:

weighted marks = marks earned / marks available x weight of that assessment

Add those up and you know what's already in the bank. Then pick a target total for the course, say 70 out of 100. What you need on the rest is:

required average on remaining work = (target total - marks in the bank) / marks still available x 100

Here's an example. Say the course is out of 100, with 50 marks of semester work and a 50-mark final. So far 30 marks of the semester work have been marked and you've earned 12 of them. That leaves 20 marks of semester work plus the final, 70 marks in all. To finish on 70 overall you need 58 of those 70, about 83%. That's hard but not impossible. If the number had come out at 95%, you'd know to put your energy somewhere else.

One catch is that this gives you a course total, not a grade. Your instructor decides how totals become letter grades, so ask how it's done instead of guessing. If your course is graded relative to the class, being near the average on one midterm tells you even less. Don't plan around rumours about scaling.

Now the GPA side. Your semester GPA is weighted by credit hours, so a 3-credit course counts for more than a 1-credit lab. The grade points are A+ and A 4.00, A- 3.67, B+ 3.33, B 3.00, B- 2.67, C+ 2.33, C 2.00, C- 1.67, D+ 1.33, D 1.00 and F 0.00. A 3.00 semester doesn't need all B's. An A and a C in two courses of equal credit hours average out to exactly 3.00. In your first semester your CGPA is just your SGPA. After that it's the credit-weighted average of everything you've taken, and the early semesters give you the most room to move it. Lifting a 2.5 to a 3.0 in your second year is far easier than doing it in your last.

If you're thinking about repeating a course, remember the latest attempt replaces the earlier one in your CGPA, even if the new grade is lower. Summer repeats exist, but only for certain categories of students, so don't count on them as a safety net. And in your first semester you can't drop courses, so recovery has to come from doing better in what's left.

Now go through your marked paper properly. FAST's rules say evaluation material should be shared with students after marking, so ask to see it. For every lost mark, decide why. Missing concept, incomplete reasoning, misread question, or ran out of time. That list is your plan for the next assessment. Then keep track of everything still to come: quizzes, assignments, labs, the second sessional and the final. Assignment and lab marks are easy to neglect and they add up.

Check your marks online too. The Student Handbook makes it your responsibility to check recorded grades and report any discrepancy to the Academic Office, and it says grades won't be changed if you don't report a problem in good time. If something looks wrong, say so quickly.

Last thing. Don't build your recovery on promises from friends that the next paper will be easy or that marks will be scaled up. Build it on the marks still available and what you do with them.