1. Don't read too hard too early: This may come as a
counter opinion to the popular "start reading on time" syndrome. In
as much as it is adviceable to start reading on time, it is very important to
note that our brain is not computer that can store information for years
without alteration. It is better to read lightly when the exam is say more than
one month away and then read heavily when exam is very close say less than one
month.
The reason is that once you study heavily months before the exam, there
is a higher tendency that you may relax when exam is close believing that you
have read only to discover in the exam hall that that which you thought you
have read has disappeared into tin air. Read heavily within exam period. what
we read under tension seems to stick to the memory at least within that exam
period.
2. Be a front seat student: The need for any student
to sit within the first three seats in the class cannot be overemphasized. This
is a necessary though not a sufficient condition to understand whatever the
lecturer will teach in the class. Personal experience has made me understand
that students who sit at the front have at least an average good CGPA. This is
because sitting in the front seat will not only avail you the opportunity to
hear the lecturer clearly but will prevent you from being distracted by other
students. It is difficult if not impossible for a student to be talking while
in the front seat due to the fear of the lecturer but same cannot be said of students
at the back seat.
3. Punctuality: This wouldn't have come in but it
has to in order to clear the argument going on in some person's mind about
point two. They will be wondering why sitting on the front seat is a factor
when it is obvious everybody cannot sit on the front seat. The only way to
tackle this is punctuality. Make sure you are always early to class so that you
will take a good position.
4. Show that you know: This is not the same thing as
acting over sabi but among your classmates make them know that you have
something to offer. Having the knowledge alone is not enough, try and make
others know that you know. Once your classmates have that impression that you
are intelligent, all other things will fall in. Past questions and materials
will all get to you when they approach you to teach them. The good thing about
this part is that the person that came to learn from you might end up teaching
you.
5: Don't be too close to lecturers: There is a
saying in my place that a person who does not steal but move by midnight when
thieves move is a thief. This part in essence is telling you to distance
yourself as far as possible from lecturers. If you are a lady who always
approach lecturers to greet them, chances are that with time they will begin to
think ill about you and this will lead them to demand to know you more. As for
guys, the lecturers use them to make additional income when they become too
close to them by intentionally failing them so that they will block them. It's
been observed that lecturers hadly intentionally fail students they don't know
at all.
6. Have more friends of opposite sex than same sex:
Having more friends of opposite sex is actually the best for your academic
life. This is based on the fact that help can easily come from people of
opposite sex due to the natural affinity people have towards opposite sex. Such
help include: putting you through in a course, assisting in assignment, calling
you on phone when there is emergency class or test, etc. Though it is
adviceable to define the limit of the friendship early enough.
7. Approach to exam questions: What usually
differentiates an A student from a B student is sometimes their approach to the
examination questions. When questions are asked in the exam and you are given
option to select some of the questions and answer, it will be fool-hardy to go
and attempt questions you don't have a good knowledge of. Though sometimes their
may be reward for the students that answered questions not mostly answered by
others, it is better to answer the common and easy ones and earn your normal
mark than attempting the difficult ones to impress the lecturer only to score
below average.
8. Paying attention to lecturer: It is no open
secret that 80% of what the lecturer said in class is what comes out in exams.
Going to lecture is one thing, paying attention is another thing. Therefore it
is necessary to pay good attention in class in order to get the details of
everything said by the lecturer as most times second hand informations are not
without alteration. Also to add to it is the fact that sometimes exam
instructions are given in class ahead of the exam day.
9. Fulfilling other academic requirements on time:
In every school there are other requirements students are expected to fulfill
in a semester or a session. Examples of such latent requirements include:
payment of school fees, faculty and departmental dues, biometric registration
if such exist in your school, course registration etc. In some school, failure
to fulfil the aforementioned requirements will prevent the student from writing
exams which always lead to distractions and delay from graduation in the
ultimate year.
10. Understand each topic immediately it is taught:
Revise any topic immediately it is taught in class. This will make reading
during exam less bulky and easy. Also it enables the student to know the part
of the topic he/she did not understand and possible ask other students or the
course lecturer in the next class.
11. Believing in yourself: "Faith in oneself is
the best and safest course." - Michelangelo. This is to say that no one
can make you get A grade apart from you. Don't be a diffident. some students
fail examination because they copied the wrong thing from their friend whom
they believe know more than them or they are scared of writing that which their
mind is telling them to write all because of lack of trust in themselves.
Therefore any student that wants to have a regret-free moment when his/her
result is released should first learn to trust himself, that is learn to have
self worth.
12. Talk less: Talking is good but when it is too
much it becomes a thing of concern. Talking every time is not good for your stay
in school because when you talk too much, you will exhaust the energy you would
have used to study or do something important. When the lecturer is not in class
that is while waiting for the lecturer to come and teach, it is not a period of
jumping from one place to another greeting "everybody and nobody"
rather you can use that opportunity to do something reasonable for yourself.
For ones try and be a person of equanimity.
Source: DEGREE2466
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