oh it is cause today for the first time ever i didnt make a 100 on a test and my teacher had a lower A range so i made a B but honestly i blame my teacher..he asked questions on the test but he worded the answers were like 2 of them were both right but no he wanted a certain one

Get used to that. Standardized testing is like that. All the answers are right, or there is more than one way to answer the question, but they want a specific response. Near the end of my schooling I just stopped answering those questions altogether. If they weren't going to like my answer they weren't geting one.

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Umm im a Law School L3 so I know but the answers were all the same just different words

...phrasing is important with law? *shrug* If you really and truly have an issue, take it up with your dean, but honestly it sounds like you're just rationalizing. I guess I have no way of actually knowing without seeing the situation completely, but it certainly sounds that way.

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What I mean is for tests and exams. Teachers have a strict marking schedule and there is a very thin borderline between an Excellence and Merit, Merit and Achieved and Achieved to Not Achieved. Having a close relationship with the teacher is great for getting positive comments on your report and having a good impression overall, not your grades. Grades are from your exams...=(


You're amazing, Syrius. Just amazing, regardless of whatever crappy wording from your teacher.

dunno bout u all, but I dont really study except the day before exams.
till High school we ahd percentages, no grades.

In school i was fine except for 2nd/3rd language where i just skitted above F, usually 85%+ in maths and science, 75%+ in geography history eng.

In high school score worsened, 65%+ in maths and physics, chem, bio mainly because i did not like memorising rubbish proofs and did only the conceptual part of a paper

Now I'm in college, here there is a national entrance test for giving which requires 60% in science stream in high school to qualify. i got into engg.
Now im in 4th year till nwo my CGPA cumulative gpa is 7.2 (out of 10) which i admit is on the lower side on average. but very few exceptions have i studied more than a day. What I love learning about, they dont teach in college, and even if they do, they twist it up so bad i just study for passing.
Here my grades are EX (10/10) or A (9/10) in subjects i like or really easy ones and P(5/10) or D(6/10) in subjects i have to take, are somewhat difficult and I hate.
Even now in less than 12 hours there is my midsemester exam. confident will get around 80% absolute, which translates to B or A studying full night and sleeping around 1.5 hours.

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Yes it is very important but the words he choose would not matter if you picked any of the others and I was not the only who complained about those 3 questions that he did that with,my entire class missed those questions but his doesn't matter that much,I'll just do extra credit to make up for those 9 points. And Melon I'm not amazing I just started being taught early,like i was taught to add,subtract,multiple and divide by the end of my Kindergarten,things like that helped me

Nice little guide, but we at the study institute have some minor points to add:

1)Make sure you study in a quiet environment. The test setting is often a quiet environment, and the brain tends to remember not only the subject you are studying but the surroundings that you studied in as well. This includes TIME and MUSIC. If you study in the afternoons, your brain becomes accustomed to operating during the afternoons, so if you have a test in the morning, you should study in the morning. In terms of music, people will actually associate study topics with music, so while they hear the music they can actually perform better, the odds are you won't have music during a test, so just don't study with it.

2) Mainly applies to university students, but make your school life a job. that's 40hours a week and the occasional overtime. With some students who may only have five courses a semester, this can amount to only 15hours of actual classes, or up to 30hours if they have labs too. Either way, it is well short of the 40hour mark. Most students lose themselves in free time and end up ruining their study habits this way, but remember: a normal 40hour work schedule still gives weekends and free-time after work. Just plan yourself so you can meet that 40hour study mark and you are set. There is no need to overdue it, but slacking off will break study habits and create a lazy mind.

You ain't doing it right, here let me show you. *takes out a 2 meter bamboo stick and beings the punishment"

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EEK!! *grabs bamboo stick and snaps in half * Don't even think about it. *stares*


Uhh...All I can say that I don't think that is encouraged....


I also know Economics require correct wording too. Having extra credit systems are really cool if you really need to make up those extra points. Sadly, we don't have them.
Being taught early can make a huge difference. That's another reason you're amazing: not everyone is taught early (depends on the parent).

oh damn. my post got deleted. Screw this I ain't retyping

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Well, until just recently, at schools here they used GPA. It was so much easier to have good grades. Percentages where introduced after realizing everyone else out there were using them. My school (private) was behind the other schools (publics), so I was pretty much confused with this at first. Now they use percentage all the time. You only need your GPA for university entrance.

As for the topic, I think everyone is different so they might have different ways of doing the studying. For example, most of the things listed by the person who wrote this topic...I can't relate to them. I really don't like studying, seriously (thinking about it, I don't think that what I do is studying). What I do is pay attention to the class, writing everything. Most of it just sticks. With the rest, I just review it at the morning of the day of the exams. People think I just "bottled" it, when in reality, I can remember almost everything... Another thing I do is listening to people that are studying. Some of them do crazy things to remember (associating) so you do so too. It really does help.

Mostly, I do this kind of stuff with vocabulary. When it comes to Math and Science, I just like those subjects. My average is 100% on both. The most difficult class for me is Spanish (even when it is my native language ). As for the rest well...I'm not that bad. I maintain a 98% avarage (4.0) on school.

Now entering college I don't think my "studying" habits would help. The Professor made sure you understood that well.

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Some people naturally have a brilliant memory and kohaku_626, I think you're one of them. ^^

I personally don't think I have a great memory myself....but I do retain the important stuff I read, so I'm not that bad. Memorisation-based subjects are fine for me. It's just the subjects that are based on skills that require some attention.

I commend the people who get close to 5.0's. I would die if I took that many AP classes!

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how the hell do you get a 5.0?!? 7 ap classes? o.o