[xMyheartsSongx]

Elementary school, I barely passed, And I want a new start For High school, I want to be organized, and prepeared, and I need any and all high School Tips!


Anything is Greatly Appreciated!! :D

[Clough]

One tip that I have is to do the hardest things first in order to get them out of the way. The hardest things are those that we are most likely to avoid and put off doing.

Here's an example, it could also be related to any kind of study or thing at which a person wants to excel at. Frequently, when I start a new piece on the piano, I will go to the hardest section first in order to work on it. Doing that seems to make the easier parts that much more enjoyable to learn. Plus, I really have a "head start" on learning the music.

Here's another tip that I just thought of. Frequently, principals and teachers will tell students to do their best or try their hardest at something. However, the nature of being a student might mean that you don't really know all the ways available as to how to learn something, even though you are trying to do your best. If it doesn't work for you to learn something one way, then try another approach. If in doubt about how to try another approach, then don't be afraid to ask someone for advice on how to learn something a different way.

I'm sure that there will be others who will come along to respond to your post.

[Wondergirl]

Elementary school, I barely passed, And I want a new start For High school, I want to be organized, and prepeared, and I need any and all high School Tips!


Anything is Greatly Appreciated!!!:D

One thing I always did in high school and in college was make flash cards for myself. I made cards as the semester progressed, so each stack for each class would grow taller as time went on. I used a rubber band to bundle the cards for each class, and would review them every day or would have a friend or classmate or even my mom test me with flash cards.

For instance, on one side would be a question or a brief phrase, and on the other side would be the "answer." In a grade school times tables flash card stack, on one side of a card would be "9 x 7" and on the other side would be "63." In my English Lit stack, on one side might be "Mill on the Floss" and on the other side would be "George Eliot." In my biology stack, one side might say "patella" and the other side "knee cap." For Latin class, one side of the card might say "vini, vidi, vici" and the other side would be the translation "I came, I saw, I conquered." In fact, for Latin class, I might have a bunch of stacks -- an irregular verbs stack, a translation of common Latin phrases stack, and a personal pronouns stack. The same could be true of biology or any other course.

I had to be very careful and organized when I made the cards and stored them, so I could find what I needed and practice the right ones for a test.

The cards could get more complicated with longer phrases or questions (but I always tried to keep them as brief as possible for memorizing's sake) -- in my world history stack there would be a flash card that said "length of the Hundred Years' War" with the backside saying "1337-1453, 116 years plus a few breaks for peace."

Of course, this would help more with multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank quiz or test questions, and not so much with essay questions, although learning and memorizing trivia gives you the bones on which to drape the "meat" for an essay question.

Writing up flash cards every day helps you get organized and makes you review, not only when you use the cards, but even when you are creating them because you recall facts from your classes and check your textbook for information and answers.

Flash cards are cool!