How to be successful in High school

1. How to be successful in High school BY: Natalie Leslie

2. Starts with a plan • High school can get stressful so the first thing you need to do before you get stressed out is get a plan. A good thing to have is a calendar. Some things you can put on your calendar are the sports and things you have going on with the days you have practice. Also you can put your homework assignments on it and when they are due.

3. Stay organized • In high school your teachers require you to have certain supplies and have them in every class. It is good that you get these supplies as soon as you can because your teacher won’t wait on you to start teaching. Having everything organized is a good thing.

4. Study, Study, Study! • When you get in the rhythm of school it is good to stay on top of things and take care of business. If you are having trouble in class you can always stay after and get teachers to help you understand things. The key thing when school gets hard is to study. Nothing can benefit you more than studying. If you want to get together with another pier to study that works too, as long as you’re doing things that will benefit you and your education.

5. Get involved • Getting involved with different school activities is always a good idea. You meet lots of new people and find out what you are good at. You also could find out something that you enjoy, such as a sport that you have never played.

6. Care about college • If you go through school not caring about your grades and things like that you will never be successful. It is good to start caring about college at a young age because then you can start working on bettering your grades. Junior year is your most important year and if you blow that year off you aren’t putting yourself in a very successful position. COLLEGE IS IMPORTANT

7. GPA stands for grade point average, this is very important because it can help get you scholarships to college. This is something that follows you throughout all your high school and college careers. Having a low GPA will lower your chances of getting into a college of your choice. But with a high GPA you can explore your options and go where you choose. Care about your GPA

8. Do Not procrastinate • This is the hardest thing for students not to do. Everyone gets behind but it is important to stay on top of your work and not wait until the last second to do things. The more you procrastinate the lower your grade most likely will be.

9. Get enough sleep • One of my biggest problems is not being awake during my classes. Something that helps me is going to sleep at a decent time. Going to bed at 10:30 has become late to me. I enjoy going to sleep at 9:30 instead because it gives me the sleep that I need to be awake during an 8 hour learning period.

10. Take good notes • Something that will help you not only throughout high school but also college is good note-taking. This is something that you can always refer to and will help you remember the things your teacher talked about if they were lecturing. These notes also help when it comes to studying for tests. The notes are in your own words and you can understand them better.

11. Be on time • Being on time is a very important thing. If you are late you most likely will get a tardy and miss important things in class. Getting to things on time is important because it shows that you are responsible and ready to learn.

12. Reflection • I believe that when you go to college it is good to have these skills already developed. They can help your work load go by a lot faster and increase your free time by a lot. Studying will help you throughout all of your school days. If you go into medical school it can be a great help so that you learn all of the terms and get good grades. All of these things stated are very important but the most important is having FUN and enjoying your high school days because you can not get these days back.