How to Become an Excellent Student

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Like all exceptionally great students, you must pay attention! When a teacher is giving a lesson, take notes and if you don't understand something, raise your hand and ask questions. The more questions you ask, the smarter you'll get, believe it or not. By passing notes and talking to friends, you won't learn anything, so pay close attention!

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Review your notes when you have free time.

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Take some time to write some problems up, or you could ask someone to write them for you. Just remember, it doesn't hurt to go over what you have learned.

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Do your homework. Teachers give you homework for a reason. It is to review what you have learned that day. Take advantage of your free time. Do your homework on the way home from school in any spare time. Do as much at school as you can-there you have the teacher in case you need help. Make sure not to rush on your homework, to check over it, and to be neat. If you really want to be a successful student, you should know right from the beginning when you want to be great at anything, you have to put up with things that just don't seem fair. Doing your homework is not a big deal. Remember, homework can also help you develop good habits and attitudes.Always do what is asked of you.

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Be prepared. Bring everything you need with you to class. Books, folders, pens, pencils, homework, review sheets etc. whatever you need it would be a good idea to bring it.

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Get organized. Staying organized in school is really important. If you are organized, then you are one step ahead in being successful. Keep a folder for each subject, and yes, you put your math papers in your math folder, you put your Language Arts papers in your Language Arts folder, you put your science papers in your science folder, and so on. It would really be a good idea to color code or label your folders.

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Study. It would be a good idea to start studying a few days before a test. Make a study schedule. If an extracurricular activity gets in the way of your studying, tell the person in charge of that certain event, that you will not be able to attend that event, or you will have to leave early. However, there will be certain situations where you will have to attend whatever it is. In this kind of situation, you will just have to study another day. This is where your study schedule comes in. Write out a schedule of the week of your test and find your free time. Always remember, use your time wisely. Study as if you are motivated for the outcome of your hard work.

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Start to read a little more. If you are not already a reader, start at your level and work your way up. You may not know this, but by reading more challenging and difficult books, you are expanding your vocabulary.

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Ask a parent or older sibling to look over your notes and create a mini-test for you 3 days advance of your test. You should always want to study before the night of your test

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If you're stuck then do not lose your cool, just focus on your work and you'll succeed.

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Use of mind maps can be helpful for understanding hard topics.

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A Touchy Story of a Son

 

A tired man came home late from his whole day hard work.
His 5 year old Son was waiting for him at the door.

Son: Dad, May I ask You a Question...?
Dad: ya

Son: Dad, How much do you make an hour...?
Dad : that's not your business.

Son: Please tel me.
Dad: 20 $ per hour.

Son: Dad,May I please borrow 10 $ ...?
Dad Got Angry 'n shouted on the kid to go to the bed.

The little boy went to the room 'n shut the door.

After sometime man got calm 'n he went to kid's room 'n said-
Sorry for being so hard. Here's Your 10 $ u asked for.

Kid smiled- ohhh... Thank You So Much daddy !
Then boy took out some coins he had kept under the pillow,
he counted them 'n said: Dad, I have 20 $ now. Can I buy an hour of your time ...?

Please come home early Tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with You.

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Our Education System Blocks the Ways of Independent Thinking in Our Students: Reasons and Solution to the Problem

How the thinking process of a nation can be enchained, confined, blocked, and  locked generation after generation? Is it a planned work or an outcome of our stupidity? Or both? Or none of them? Let delve into the issues.

Most of the teachers of our country are playing 'catching fish' game with the students. They don't like to let students think independently rather the teachers think for the students. Our teachers often don't like to allow their students to ask questions. This is happening almost in all educational institutions of the country--so called famous or infamous. Again our respected teachers don't like to digest the daring of students' creative writing. If any student writes by his or her own, in most of the cases, the students must be ready to be rebuked in the pretend that why they did not memorize teachers' notes. We all know the secrets why our teachers are doing this--mainly because to catch fish.

Okay, we teachers are like the above as most of the parents think and even our government thinks. Well and good. How about our parents? Why do they compromise with the teachers? For whose benefit we, the parents are doing this? For our children's benefit? Or for our benefit? Why parents cannot resist this? So far I discovered, most of our Bangladeshi parents are not aware of their rights. Most of them don't know what parenting is. Most of them blindly follow the age-old tradition of rote-learning.

Actually we are in a peculiar leadership system. We don't know our rights, duties, obligations, responsibilities. We know how to copy others--be it good or bad. We lost our reasoning process. Who is responsible for all of these? Our government? Our teachers? Our parents? Our innocent children? Who?

I talked about the problems today. In my next writing, I will propose some solutions, God willing.

Yeasir Ahmed Milan

Writer

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