how can i recover from a bad grade? What are good study skills to acquire?
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Posted on : 16-03-2010 | By : My Study Coach | In : study skills
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Loading ...I have really low self-esteem when it comes to school – maybe i’m a perfectionist…i don’t know. I’ll study for a test really hard and to my disappointment, I won’t do as well. Everytime, i’ll study harder. I get discouraged easily. I feel like i study really hard but do get as much success as other students.
My main two questions: How do i recover from a bad grade and not let it get to me?
second: what are good study skills? Yes, i am in college but sometimes i think my study skills aren’t good enough if i’m not getting the grades i want.
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If you let a bad grade get to you it’s just going to fester and freak you out on your next exam. When you feel like you did poorly just relax, calm down, and try to look at the big picture. You’re still alive, the world is beautiful, and you have other grade-opportunties to help make up for the one bad grade!
As for studying tips the only thing I can reccomend is to highlight the main topics and fill them out a little with related concepts. Write it all down by hand or on the computer to help you remember it. Then, over the next couple of days, take ten minutes or so every once in a while to skim your notes. It’ll help you keep everything in mind. And don’t forget, if you’re feeling overwhelmed, just step back and breath.
There should be study skills class that you can take at your local college; ask you advisor at your college for assistance.
You could also ask your professor if you could tape a class section and review the tape afterwards.
Read a whole chapter of the textbook into a tape recorder and play it back over and over again.
Make notecards and take with you everywhere you go to study.
Sniff rosemary oil before an exam for memorization.
Study every night and early morning.
Play mozart music while reading a chapter.
Stress shop when you get a bad grade.
what is past is past — you can’t change the past — you can direct the future. if you spend all your time fretting the past you will have no future. so cut it out!
the best way to study is in groups. when i figured this out it was easy to get people to join in study groups because virtually everyone realizes the benefits. unelash the alpha in you! no matter how smart you think you are someone less smart is bound to make a suggestion or two you never thought of. in the workplace they have learned to put one smart person in group of average people. it makes the average people think harder. two smart people in a group tend to cancel each other out. go figure. now go study!