How to Get Good Grades in Ten Easy Steps
How to Get Good Grades in Ten Easy Steps
1. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
•If you want to succeed, you have to believe that you can. If school has been challenging for you, believing that you can do well can be hard. But success depends on trusting that you can do it, and then making a plan to help you reach your goal.
•Remember to make small goals at first, and work towards the big ones over time. Instead of deciding to get all A’s, start with a goal of going up one letter grade in a class or two, and then decide what you need to do to achieve that goal. Every journey consists of small steps, and each one is important to get you to the destination.
•There will be people from time to time who won’t believe in you and will try to tell you can’t do it. These might even be people who are close to you- friends, family, or even teachers.
Think about how great it will be to show them that they are wrong and have underestimated how terrific you are- sometimes, turning this negative talk into a challenge can really help keep you motivated towards your goal. Just say to yourself “They can’t see how motivated I am, and how much I can do- and I’ll prove it to them that I can do it!”
2. BE ORGANIZED. THIS MEANS:
• Keeping and maintaining an assignment book. Everyone needs to do this, even adults.
Without it, you can easily forget your assignments, or fail to study for upcoming tests, or do the work necessary for long term projects. One of the best uses for an assignment book is to help you learn how to manage your time, and break down big tasks into smaller ones. We’ll talk about this a bit more later on.
• Use three ring binders for class notes (with reinforcements). Tabbed separators can help you keep each notebook organized as well- one spot for blank paper, one spot for class notes, and add pocket folders that are secure in the binder.
• Use folders for schoolwork.- Folders, preferably the kind you can put right in your three-ring
1. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
•If you want to succeed, you have to believe that you can. If school has been challenging for you, believing that you can do well can be hard. But success depends on trusting that you can do it, and then making a plan to help you reach your goal.
•Remember to make small goals at first, and work towards the big ones over time. Instead of deciding to get all A’s, start with a goal of going up one letter grade in a class or two, and then decide what you need to do to achieve that goal. Every journey consists of small steps, and each one is important to get you to the destination.
•There will be people from time to time who won’t believe in you and will try to tell you can’t do it. These might even be people who are close to you- friends, family, or even teachers.
Think about how great it will be to show them that they are wrong and have underestimated how terrific you are- sometimes, turning this negative talk into a challenge can really help keep you motivated towards your goal. Just say to yourself “They can’t see how motivated I am, and how much I can do- and I’ll prove it to them that I can do it!”
2. BE ORGANIZED. THIS MEANS:
• Keeping and maintaining an assignment book. Everyone needs to do this, even adults.
Without it, you can easily forget your assignments, or fail to study for upcoming tests, or do the work necessary for long term projects. One of the best uses for an assignment book is to help you learn how to manage your time, and break down big tasks into smaller ones. We’ll talk about this a bit more later on.
• Use three ring binders for class notes (with reinforcements). Tabbed separators can help you keep each notebook organized as well- one spot for blank paper, one spot for class notes, and add pocket folders that are secure in the binder.
• Use folders for schoolwork.- Folders, preferably the kind you can put right in your three-ring