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getting 90 average
Ok This is my first year of high school. In my old school, I was the top and was almsot a perfect student and now that i'm in high school, there's just so many smart people that i feel average and stupid! All my new friends that i've made have averages in their classes in the 90's while I'm struggling to stay at my 81 average in my classes or stay at the 80's!
There's this REALLY blond girl in one of my classes. And i know that it sounds stereotyping but she's like how it is in the movies when they exxagerate things with bimbos: blond, hip clothes, make up, high voice, dumb personality. But i found out that the only person in that class that has a 90 average is HER!
I am shocked beyond compare! She barely tries her work and if it's something big, she'll remember it at the last minute but doesn't try that hard on it and gets in her 90s while i try hard, go straight home after school, and focuse my life all around school and I'm trying to keep my grades at the 80s!
Is there any tips or advice you can give me to get into the 90s without so much hard work like how she's doing it? I even focuss in class and recheck my work before I hand them in, I just don't get how my average isn't as high as i want it and hers is so high beyond imagine!
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You shouldn't be jealous of that girl. Even though there are people like that who don't really have to study, it really catches up with them in the end. Once classes get harder, they don't really know what to do and end up suffering. Anyways, it doesn't work like that in college AT ALL. Even if you're smart, you can't just take the test without studying and expect to pass.
My best advice is to study a little bit every night. You don't even have to study that hard, just read over your notes a couple times. Repetition is key, and that's basically what studying is, just going over the information. You could even make flashcards too.
Also, don't be fooled by how people appear like they don't have to try. Most of the time, they make it look effortless, but just because you don't see them studying, that doesn't mean they aren't doing it at home.
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Some people are just better at studying than others. If she's not even giving that much time on studies than it means that she's just better at remembering. You can't really do anything about that. But here's what helped me. Be observant. Every teacher has a pattern. If your teachers constistently stay the same and you don't change them, you would be able to understand what really counts for them and what not. Every teacher has a different grading system and for every teacher, different assignments have different importance. For example, my spanish teacher always gives us homework but when the homework is a text and questions on this text than I know that on the next day we would have a small quiz on it. If the homework's not a text but anything else, she won't give us a quiz. She never says if there's going to be a quiz and she never said that she always gives quizes after a text for a homework but the pattern continues. Also, look at what is graded as a completion grade and what is not. For example, I know that my chemistry teacher grades the written labs based on completion although she has never said it. Now, writing a lab takes a lot of time if you want it to be good, but I don't spend that much time on it, because I know she won't even read it. Instead, I spend the time on studying something else.
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