How To Be A Good Student

The classroom for the student can be the nightmare of each and every one of the boys who prefer to be somewhere else and not exactly there. The sum of everything that makes us fat, heavy, insufferable. But also, and as much as it weighs us down, the place where our future is baked, with each and every one of the ingredients that our adult life will have later on. Yes, because although this is not one hundred percent accurate, in the vast majority of cases we tend to be adults as we have been as students: industrious bumblebees or abandoned grasshoppers, willful and energetic beings or, on the contrary, lazy aspirants to everything. who never manage to complete their objectives and daily get confused with the sofa cushions, from lying on it so much.

And what is a good student?

No, it has absolutely nothing to do with joining the nerd ranks. No need to be a shy bookworm or a bespectacled misogynist who hates mankind and chases Pokémon all the time. Being a good student is, in principle, never losing sight of the fact that you went to school in the first place to learn (although it’s not bad to have fun in the process). It is making the most of your time there, absorbing everything possible in terms of knowledge, learning your strengths, weaknesses, passions, to find what you like to do or what you would like to dedicate the rest of your life to. Basically, a good student is one who manages to combine good learning and adequate socialization, without allowing one to stand out too much above the other. You are there to learn!

How do I get to be?

The social and work habits that we manage to create at this stage will accompany us the rest of the way to success or failure, or make us jump between one and the other. In other words, to be an above average student or to be among the best in class, it is not enough to be smarter than others, in fact, to rely solely and exclusively on your memory or your learning ability without imposing certain doses of Discipline will only result in a finalism that can sometimes be comfortable, if the task that they have put in front of you is average, but that will make you stagger when the teachers tighten the screws.

In fact, know-it-alls who either brag about being smart-ass, or project an image of disinterest but still get by and get good grades tend to come off as quite annoying, and are quick to alienate pedagogues. All in all, it is not that difficult to be an excellent student, as long as you are clear about how to learn to study. It is enough to follow these tips and advice that we offer you and that, if you follow them to the letter, will bring you amazing results.

How to be a great student (or almost)?

Among these tips there are two aspects: those that will guarantee you good academic results, and those that will help you project yourself correctly socially and surround yourself with allies, not “enemies”. The latter will seem silly, but it is really very important that your classmates do not see you as competition (although you are, after all) and that your teachers do not see in you a little beast that needs to be tamed.

Tips to be a good student

1. The most obvious, but it is worth repeating: remember that you came here to study.  Take it seriously. Repeat it every day before going to school. Time is a resource that you will not be able to recover.
2. The classroom is not the best place to play practical jokes. Never do it, or invite anyone to do it, much less make fun of a teacher because you will become something that everyone wants to eradicate: a negative leader.
3. Have as much fun as you can. It will seem like a contradiction, but it is not. Play sports, play a musical instrument, or even sing if you’re able. It will help you refresh and change activities, it will prevent you from getting sick of school and it will undoubtedly expand your circle of friends, which if managed well will keep you focused on your goals. That the heavy math classes are not the only thing that awaits you at school.
4. Never say or insinuate to a teacher that what he is trying to teach you does not interest you: he is more proud of nothing than his knowledge, for a reason he spends his time trying to make you learn what he has to show you. As soon as he sees you move past his class, you’ll start being “that cocky brat.” And “that cocky brat” will have a hard time going forward. When content is heavy for you, do not bother, find something you can do quietly and without attracting attention. Although the best thing to do would be to bite the bullet and attend the class.
5. Organize your school supplies well. It will help you save time if you know perfectly well in which notebook you wrote down that seemingly unimportant class that suddenly becomes the subject of an exam.
6. Pay attention to classes with new content. Be careful, you really should pay attention to all of them. But those in which new knowledge is introduced are vital.
7. Ask all the questions you think are necessary. Try to fully understand everything that is explained, and if you don’t understand, ask the teacher again. Never remain silent if you have not understood.
8. Take note of the most important. It does not matter if you have the content at hand on the internet, or in a document in digital format. Taking notes by hand helps to understand and memorize knowledge.
9. Don’t put off tasks. If you are told to do something by Monday, don’t start doing it on Sunday night. The postponed tasks accumulate and then you will do them in a hurry (and badly, surely).
10. Prefer paper books, since reading digital material is annoying and exhausts your eyes (although this is up to you, the important thing is that you read). If you already read, read more.
11. Don’t study until late at night. Your brain will be exhausted and it will be difficult to focus (the brain forgets most of what you learn or study in a time frame of about ten minutes before going to sleep). It is better to go to bed earlier, get up an hour or two earlier than expected, take a shower and get down to business.
12. Do not neglect sleep schedules. You need about seven or eight hours of sleep a day to perform at a good level.
13. Explaining to others reinforces your knowledge. According to Einstein, you don’t really know something if you can’t explain it to your granny (more or less). Explaining new knowledge to your peers makes you understand it even more.
14. Answer the teacher’s questions as often as possible. In addition to reinforcing your level of knowledge, you will win in the eyes of the teacher and may even exempt you from taking exams because you master the content (and make him look like a good professional).
15. As much as you theoretically master a content, try to reinforce it by applying it to solutions and situations of daily life. In the long run it is more important how it is applied than how it is explained.
16. Know your limits, your strengths, your weaknesses, and act accordingly. Frequently who is good with letters is bad with numbers, or vice versa. Knowing in advance where your greatest difficulty is helps you focus, and if you are better in one subject than in another it is okay to put a little more care into the one that is problematic and spend a little less time on the one that is most difficult for you. it is more affordable. It also helps to consider your professional future in a path according to your tastes and strengths.
17. Be honest with your parents about what you do and don’t want. There is no shortage of those who want to see their children become neurosurgeons or lawyers against their will (and often against their abilities or vocations). If your path is in another direction, make them understand and kindly tell them that you need their support, not pressure or stress.

And that’s it?

Well, obviously not. The most important thing is missing and that everyone must put: the will. For that ingredient there are no decalogues or predefined tips. It is necessary to train it daily.

Life is changeable and flexible, and a school today is not similar to one from just five or six years ago: if in other times generational changes occurred with ten or twenty years, today it is easy to see people with three or six years apart and belonging to totally different generations. The most important thing, however, remains to truly know what you want, what you can do, how far you can go. Do you already know? Perfect. So you just have to focus, and go for it. Remember: you are baking your future.