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lately i have been so stressed and worried about one of my classes. i used to force myself to study all day for 5 days in advance of a test (including saturday and sunday) so that i would get a "good grade". its gotten to the point where i see a therapist and take medication. my mom is concerned, so she is only letting me study 2 hours a day so that i wont be overstressed, and she said that if i dont do well on tests that itll be her fault. my question is, is it better to cry and panic all the time and get a good grade or to enjoy life and not study as much and get a lower grade?
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i have totally been in that situation and you should relax and enjoy life it's better to get a lower grade than panic and worry about being an honor student and all that stuff to get you praised in school i dont mean to sound like an Asshole but it's true. i dont even know you but i really dont want to see you f**k up your life by doing this.
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getting a good grade by stressing yourself and 'not studying to get a lower grade' are equal because they are both not good. you shouldn't push yourself too hard by studying too much because that's just going to get you frustrated and frustration does not lead to success. you'll lose sleep and you'll most likely wont do so well on a test. but studying too little wont do you any good, or you'll be wasting your time reading information, and forgetting it the next day. just plan a schedule to study for 30 mins after school, and study another extra 30 minutes later that day to divide your studying hours. that way, you will both study a good amount of time, and will REMEMBER what you study. try it (;
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The best thing to do is just relax. If you're paying attention in class, you do your homework, take good notes, etc, there should be no reason why you won't get a good grade without studying. If you're stressing out and forcing yourself to reach perfection, you're just going to end up being disappointed later. You're going to find out that being perfect is not possible throughout the rest of your life, and you might look back then and think that you really missed your teenage years because you were stressing too much. So just breathe, take a step back for a while. You're not going to get a bad grade if you follow your mom's advice, in fact, I'd say that's overdoing it. (And I'm not a slacker, I pull off pretty good grades in advanced classes and normal ones). There have been studies that have shown that stress can actually have a negative impact on academic performance. Stress affects your metabolism, sleeping patterns, normal bodily functions, and when those aren't working properly, neither is your brain. So try not to get too worked up over school. It matters in the long run, as far as getting into colleges and all of that, but not nearly to the extreme that everyone tells you.
Hope this helps!
Love,
Nevaeh
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please give an age and grade, enjoying life is good but you need to study. Try to balance them.
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I think your mom has the right idea. If you study too much, you run the risk of overloading your brain and forgetting what you've studied. Studying for smaller periods of time will help you remember the facts without stressing yourself. If you get a less than perfect grade on the test, it's okay. There will be other tests. If your grade gets too low, you can always try speaking to your teacher about extra credit. Some teachers will allow you to do things for extra credit if they see you're making an effort.
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without a doubt -enjoy your life, you only live once right?
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Enjoy life.
Hands down, no argument, no qualifications: It is better to not study as much and enjoy life.
If you were getting all D's or F's, clearly that wouldn't be enjoying life, but if you can study less and still pull off average grades then you really really need too.
School can be an incredible pressure on a person but in high school when I finally stopped studying all the time, I found the one thing I really loved. Now I get to study it at university, and I didn't get into the program because I had the best grades (I didn't), I got into it because I had volunteered and done stuff outside of class and had a hell of a lot of passion for the subject.
Yes, my grades will never be quite as good as they used to be but I don't cry over B's anymore. (Okay, I cried over a C once this semester, but only once!) I can actually accept criticism, and I can decide that hanging out with my best friend is more important then doing an A++ job on some silly assignment.
So relax a little, find something, anything outside of studying that makes you happy and make time for it. Don't make your life about the work; make the work about the kind of life you actually want to live.
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