Last week we offered 6 resolutions students can make to enhance their study practice. Here are 6 more from which to choose that are equality effective, and that if implement will help you to achieve academic success for the results students want.
1. Review notes nightly. It’s not enough to just take notes – they also need to be reviewed – especially in the days leading up to a big exam. Spending 10-15 minutes each night reviewing your notes will keep important details about any subject fresh in your mind and will help make any new information “stick”.
2. Set goals. Even the best students set goals for themselves. If we stopped having goals, there would be nothing to work towards. When you accomplish one goal, reward yourself and set another. Stumped on ideas for academic goals? Consult your teacher, guidance counselor and parents or ask your friends what goals they are setting for themselves.
3. Use your planner. Use your planner to keep track of more than just tests and assignments. Whether you have an appointment with your dentist, coach or guidance counselor, any assignment, deadline or activity related to your life should be noted in your planner.
4. Stay focused. Put electronic devices away. Keep a healthy snack nearby to provide energy. Find a quiet place in your house or study at the library. When you block out distractions, you will find completing homework gets easier – and you’ll be done quicker!
5. Set deadlines. Setting deadlines for yourself is a crucial part of being an active planner. If you know you have a swim meet Thursday, and your project is due Friday, you need to plan to have it completed by Wednesday at the latest. If you teacher does not impose deadlines, you need to do this yourself.
6. Give your best effort. Recognize your challenges and rise above them by making a valiant effort – always. There are always people to help you and resources to aid you achieve your goals and success. Don’t be too hard on yourself. You can take pride in yourself if, at the end of the day, in your heart, you’ve given your best effort.
The New Year presents a good opportunity to renew one’s focus and commitment to oneself! These 6 suggestions, and those offered last week, are many small steps and adjustments students can take that will make a big difference in the academic success. By the end of the school year, you will have great satisfaction knowing that perseverance and commitment got you the the desired results.
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I'll point it out one more time. 60-70% of Harvard students receive aid and the average aid package is 38k. That means it is less money than the State school you went to , if you demonstrated a need. Do you realize that 70% is not just a majority but rather a VAST MAJORITY of kids could not afford to pay tuition on their own? Elections these days, decided by 3 percentage points, are being called a mandate. If you are smart enough to have attended the college of your choice, then I suggest you consider the fallacy in your argument. Most --I REPEAT MOST kids going to Ivy League schools cannot 'afford' them. The size of the Ivy endowments allows anyone qualified to be admitted to attend. That is the reality. Time to flush your excuses. Your excuses are baggage that do you no good.
Wrong. I'll tell you my history. I attended The United States Air Force Academy. I played football there my freshman year . I sustained an injury that prevented me from flying fighter jets and the government allowed me to transfer to Cornell. I then played football at Cornell and graduated from Cornell. Industrial and Labor relations. I am from the Albany area. My tuition was arranged to be paid for by the US government. Maybe if you are clever enough with Google you can figure out who I am. I am not Sebastian. Good luck seeking the truth. I've given you ample information. Though nothing I have said here is controversial, so I have no problem whatsoever if you determine who I am.
Who else posts your drivel from 2 til 3 in the AM? Luca Duff Cruz? Sebastian Dangerfield? What happened to the Columbia/ Yale BS?
Funny calling the kettle black haha
"I host my re-union from DHS every 5 years,,,,I see it....no chip...just fact...kids from the affluent sector, just don't have the motivation...." You host the reunion. Very nice of you. But don't you think your view might be rather limited and lacking in science? Some unsuccessful people come to your party and from there you conclude that no students anywhere should attend an Ivy League school. Do you see the flaw in that logic? I don't mean this as an insult, but maybe your parties only attract unsuccessful people. By the way, I went to an Ivy and I was hardly from the affluent sector. I was poorer than dirt. I'm sure you won't believe me, but I ate out of dumpsters because I was so hungry. Story for another day, but this is the secret shame of America. In my kids' classrooms, they ship toothbrushes off to Guatemala and our government builds cell phone towers and Olympic swimming pools for the needy people in Iraq, but there are kids like me in your own neighborhood who are literally starving. So please, spare me your inner-anger about how Ivy kids come from money. I didn't come from money. I came from many long hours in the library. You know why? Because it was warm and my house had no heat. lol!
How about this: I'll be on this thread at 9:00pm on the dot. You develop a question that only someone who attended USAFA or Cornell would know. It can be about the reputation of a fraternity, it can be which bars existed pre-internet discovery. It can be about about anything. I will answer you within 2 minutes if I see it, precluding any fact gather via Google. Of course I can't know everything at these schools, and they have changed since I attended. If my schools are important to anyone, please test me. I hope they are not, this is silly. John was infatuated with me, but left the discussion without divulging a tad of info, but left with his bitterness intact
We should encourage kids to believe they are cartoon characters. Makes total sense.
Don't try to confuse me !
I am not Sebastian. But, since the same person just signed in under 5 different sign-in names, I dare say they are the frauds. One thing is defintely real and that the person is a chicken. Foghorn Leghorn . You do realize that Foghorn is always on the losing end of all the gags he initiates? A chicken that is a loser. Perfect. Good night.