WHAT IT TAKES TO HAVE GOOD GRADES
A friend of mine talked about having a good cgpa while in school
So i decided to share it to interested minds who wants to work on their gpa nd cgpa
My dear it is still not late to do something about it
Read below
What It Takes To Graduate With
A Good Grade As students, we all want our cumulative
grade point
average (CGPA) to be high so as to graduate with either
first class or second class upper.
There actually might be, but am not sure there is any
student that wants to graduate with a second class
lower not to talk more of a third class.
Here are some principles I have listed that would be of
good help to you in achieving your aim of graduating
with a very high CGPA.
Make Up Your Mind
If you really want to make a good CGPA, the first thing
you would have to do is to make up your mind. In
making up your mind, I mean that you should know
within yourself that what you are about to undertake
won’t be so easy. There are some things you would
have to drop in order to achieve your aim. Things like
playing a lot, watching movies and some other things
apart from reading that takes your time. I am not
saying that you should stop playing neither did I say
you should stop watching movies but you should
minimize the rate at which you do all those things.
Time Management
This aspect is very important as it is a priority of every
student. For you to be able to excel, you have to be
time conscious. Some students neglect the use of
reading time table but I would like to advise that
reading time table is very necessary for a every
student. It would help you to carry all your courses
along and not to focus on only one course.
Make a time table of what you want to do each day and
at the end of the day, check out whether you were able
to accomplish them.
For you to make a good reading time table you need
your lecture time table. This would enable you to know
the particular course you are meant to read each day
so that you may not read the right thing at the wrong
time. Also make a time table of the activities you want
to do each day apart from reading and don’t allow
those activities to encroach into your reading time
table.
Accept The Fact That You Know Nothing
According to a very known philosopher, Socrates, “All I
Know Is That I Know Nothing”. With this I don’t mean
you should start calling yourself an OLODO but you
should not say that you know a particular course very
well so as not to read or focus on that course. When I
was in my 100 level, I use to say that I know
mathematics very well and that made me not to read
my mathematics book.
The day of test came and after the test, I knew within
me that I did not do well in the test but I still
maintained the fact that I knew mathematics very well
not until a night before maths exam that I decided to
read mathematics. I opened the book to read and
found out that those things I thought that I knew, I
knew them no more. I had to read till daybreak and
went for the exam. When the result was out, I got a C
grade instead of the A grade that I thought I would get.
People would say “experience is the best teacher” but I
am telling you to learn from other people’s mistakes
that you may not experience that same mistake.
Never you for anything downgrade any course unless
you might experience my mistake or even worst than
that.
Focus
This aspect is also as important as the others. Some
students would always focus only on one course
because the course is too simple for them or maybe
the course is too hard for them paying little or no
attention to other courses. This is very wrong, for no
matter how good you are as a student, you must still
have the tendency of forgetting and you can only
remember if you read. Remember, when making a
reading time table, focus more on those courses that
have a higher credit unit for those courses would help
boost your CGPA than the lower credit unit courses.
In some higher institutions e.g FUTO,one credit unit
courses are more stressful than even the 4 credit unit
courses due to the assignments that is been
bombarded by the lecturers to the students. This tend
to make some students to concentrate mostly on those
one unit courses forgetting about their higher credit
unit courses.
If you are in this category of students, I would advise
you to rather do the assignments that same day it was
given so as to avoid it been piled up for you or you do
as many as you can another day if you can’t do it that
day and endeavor not to loose concentration on your
higher credit unit courses.
Read
We all know that as students we are meant to read but
there are some things we don’t understand about
reading. Some students do read at night simply
because their friends read at night not taking into
consideration whether they are understanding what
the read or not and may end up damaging their
reading tables with their head when sleeping.
Before you read, first of all understand yourself and
know the right time when you understand what you
read. Some understand what they read when they read
at at night, some in the day, some very early in the
morning.
Some others do read a day before an exam thinking
that they can get everything in their brain overnight. I
did this when I wrote my maths exam as narrated
above but I ended up getting a lower grade than
expected. Learn to prepare and read on time so as to
prevent the 11th hour rush.
One other thing, as Human beings, our brains need
rest so read moderately and also rest your brain
(siesta). Don’t also forget to play for it helps develop
your brain but don’t overplay.
Pray
For you to be able to be able you make a very high
CGPA, you have to prepare yourself both physically
and spiritually. Before and after you finish reading, you
should pray so as to ask for God’s favour so that you
might not easily forget what you read.
I would like to round up with this “Work As If
Everything Depends On You And Pray As If Everything
Depends On God.”
God bless you.
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