Typical school life is a friendly place for
learning and improving one's skills, but still, it became a competitive
environment. The education we receive in the different educational institutions
and the attitudes, behavior, norms, and morals that we develop will later guide
us in the rest of our life. Our grades will soon become important, especially
our grades in college years, because when we get into our first job this will
become part of one of the most credible credentials we can be proud of and use.
To become a successful student we need to learn certain skills and these skills
are all can be learned at school.
So for today’s blog, I will give
some tips about the basics of being a good student, which I learned in our
class discussions. But before that, I will present first the tips I gathered in
an interview in a student that became an awardee during her high school years.
This is related to the assigned task that my professor leaves for us. Ms. Awee (
my professor in Understanding the Self subject) asks us to interview an academic
awardee and ask her about the secret that she does to achieve her
rewards and achievements. The name of the person that I interviewed is Fate
Gwyneth Anciro. She was my former high school classmate. So the interview
starts when I ask her the question of “ For you how can a student become an
academic awardee? And please share with us your secret of becoming a good example
of being an awardee. ”
According
to Ms. Gwyneth the only key to becoming an academic awardee is perseverance.
Studying for her will going to be hard, but the word hard doesn’t mean
“impossible”. Studying hard and enduring all the hardships that we will
encounter in repetitive creation of projects, assignments, group activities,
and repetitive take of different types of examinations are all challenges that
students must face with responsibility and accountability. For her, the mindset
of competing your own classmates will only result in the sense of competing
your own self. We should not fix our minds that we are in a battle and there
is always a need to win among our classmates. She advises that helping each
other “to learn” is the best thing we can do to improve others as well as
ourselves. To become better in
quizzes and other exams, a student for her should challenge himself/herself in
taking those. For example, once you fail in a test, it is not yet the end of the
world, try to beat that score, aim for high scores and don’t let yourself down.
Always keep motivated and think of your dreams. Always keep in mind the things
that we want to achieve whenever we are feeling tired and almost burnout.
Because her motivation and discipline go hand in hand. There will be
times that we might feel laziness. The time we feel like we don’t want to do
anything. But she says that “ …fight ourselves in those times we feel those
feelings!” For her, we should be STRICT in ourselves especially when we have a
lot of pending works in school. Stop procrastinating and prevent cramming.
Because for her it is more pleasing and relaxing when we go to school and
already finished our assignments and projects because we can no longer add
more stress in ourselves and we can definitely focus on the class
discussions. In the last part of our
interview, she leaves us a motivational quote. “ There are no failures, only
delayed success”.
My interview with Ms. Fate was surely an enlightening
interview for students like us. I will add some specific tips that I learned in
my class connected to the very good tips and inspirational thoughts that Ms.
Fate leave to us.
How to become a
better student?
- Prioritize your life as a student: doing well in school should be our top priority.
- Studying has no substitute
- Always attend class. Be physically and mentally present.
- Do, do, and do all the assigned homework, group works, and readings.
- DEVELOP self – discipline. If there are upcoming tests or if you are going to make any output in school, prevent yourself from using your phone for staying in social media. In short, keep your concentration and focus on your studies!
- Manage your time efficiently. Always take opportunity cost first rather than your wants. Always remember that after you finish everything you can soon enjoy your free time with less stress in cramming. And that is the best feeling. “Maging maagap tayo mga kapatid”
For many tips and suggestions for becoming a better student
in school, please take some time to read an article at https://www.academictips.org/acad/beastudent.html
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