<p>Sit in the front of the class and make sure the teacher likes you. Be an outstanding student.</p>
<p>Um, work hard?</p>
<p>You probably spend a solid 7 hours in school on a given weekday; USE THIS TIME WISELY! DO NOT GOOF OFF! PAY ATTENTION TO THE TEACHER!</p>
<p>Seven hours a day is more than enough time to learn anything, and good use of this time will eliminate the need to study at home.</p>
<p>"I know it looks impossible, but soph year I got a 2.9 uw gpa, and jr year i got a 4.0 uw with the same course load as you"</p>
<p>That's epic, you are my protagonist.</p>
<p>i am going to write one o my app essays about success, and my theory is that only about 1/3 of is is what you do (how hard you work, your results, ect) another 1/3 of it is how much people like you (especially teachers, do all the homework, put in some VISIBLE effort, and stroke their egos, trust me, its just as important as doing well on a test) and the final 1/3 is things out of your control like scheduling, and specific knowledge based questions, and what you deal with at home.</p>
<p>Tom, tell me if you accepted man.</p>
<p>Well I got all A's this past Junior year so I guess I can give you some tips.</p>
<p>ALWAYS do ALL homework. Homework can end up being the difference between an 89.4% and an 89.5%.<br>
Try not to procrastinate too much. I always procrastinate but never enough that I didn't get an assignment done.</p>
<p>Ask for help if you don't get anything. Don't languish and hope you'll magically learn it 10 minutes before the test (sad, I know...)</p>
<p>If a teacher sucks at teaching, go to another teacher who teaches the same subject and ask him/her questions.</p>
<p>1) Do your hw (I can't seem to be successful at this, especially for the subjects I hate)</p>
<p>2) Study as little as you can while maintaining the most as you can (I don't study, but you're junior so you should kinda study)</p>
<p>3) Don't listen to these people. If you know procrastination works strongly for you (like for me), go for it.</p>
<p>4) Ultimately, it depends on what you like to do and how you study; your work habits, all YOUR stuff...</p>
<p>biggest tip of all: don't procrastinate. that's all there is to doing well. it's hard not to, but overcome that and you'll do fine.</p>
<p>Get a PDA and schedule.
Follow it to the t.</p>
<p>1 person mentioned it already, but it really deserves more attention:</p>
<p>SLEEP! The more you get, the better you'll do on tests and the easier you'll learn the material. How you score on tests is half how well you know the material and half how well your brain is functioning, and it won't be at it's best without 7-8 hours of sleep.</p>
<p>Well you do it by knowing when to try hard and when to relax. You have to set your priorities straight! A lot of the times I ended up doing my ap lang hw in ap euro, but it still all worked out.
Oh yeah. And when you get home from school or work, just start your hw right away. Don't wait till midnight and start. A good nights sleep is so much more important than what most people think. Last year I never stayed up past 11 pm.</p>
<p>study what you learn in school the same day you learn it.</p>
<p>for example, say you learn about hybridization in chemistry today, when you go home, study/review what you learned about hybridization. do this the next day with the same topic you learned in class. </p>
<p>make flash cards and review them, and answer questions about the topic too, wherever you can find them. any questions you get wrong, review why, and go back to the sub-topic to what that question relates to and study it. then go answer more questions</p>
<p>by the time studying for a test comes around, all you'll need to do is a small review.</p>
<p>haven't read anything, but my average for 7 classes was a 98.7/100 UW, so yeah, straight A's junior year!</p>
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<li><p>do an assignment as soon as you get it. like, that night. Trust me, this takes off a lot of stress...and teachers assume you've done something if they gave you a month! </p></li>
<li><p>if you're having trouble "starting" an assignment (and ARE NOT in a time crunch or all nighter situation), then do the most far away thing (like starting a term paper). Usually, I just do that for a few hours, get panicked about the short term project/hw and just complete it quickly. This also has the nice bonus that you have a "start" on projects. I've often had long term projects where I've found that I've done 50-75% before even "really" starting it.</p></li>
<li><p>Make folders on your computer so you don't lose things. Have an organized way of naming documents. My freshman year was hellish b/c I lost a lot of documents in various folders (I would just save "wherever"); a system of filing makes all the difference.
For example, i have "<strong>my name</strong> stuff" divided into "<em>Year in HS</em>" and "Non School"...then "<em>Year in HS</em>" is divided into each subject I'm taking. then, if I have a lot of papers in a subject, I divide it into "Test Reviews" "Papers" "Homeworks"...then I name the individual document, like "<em>Subject</em> Test 1" "<em>Subject</em> Final Review", etc</p></li>
<li><p>Have back ups of everything...preferably online and on a cd...again, I lost all my freshman work because of this & my friends have lost term papers, etc, because of laptop crashes.</p></li>
<li><p>Set high goals for yourself. Sure, you may be able to pull of an A with a 89.6 (depending on your school req's), but you will also be worried every test. By doing well you can rest easy that one grade will not kill your average. Plus, you need it for recommendations. Don't be known as "the slacker".</p></li>
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<p>I got all As the second semester of junior year,<block schedule="">
and what I did may not work for all..but I basically formed a good relationship with alll my teachers,stayed after school for tutorials..but my number one thing was: motivation,make goals.keep them.and ACT upon them!</block></p>
<p>Don't make (close to) impossible goals though..</p>
<p>WORK WORK WORK & be competitive about your grades. Pretend everything is just like one big sport race and YOU want to be the best. Which then translates to the best grade. It will be worth it in the end. So study study STUDY! Teachers love students who participate in class a lot, so make sure your hand to up 'most' of the time. Ask questions, say your thoughts, do every project like your going to win a money for it. I believe that ANYONE can get the best grades as long as the put the time and effort into it. It's all about motivation. Stupid people are people that don't try and laze around all day, smart people work hard to get good grades. If you know some genius kid in your class with a photographic memory. BEAT HIM. Beat his grades. Make him cry. lol It's all about competition. If you WANT it enough, you can GET IT.
<em>Whew, I felt like I just wrote out a motivation speech for a football game. haha</em></p>