When you start your academic career by thinking that a white vest for literally start again. No one has prejudices about your skills and work habits. If you have not yet done so, it is now time to begin the academic practice, to better grades – practice “smart” use. Why is the “smart” quotes? “Smart” is in quotes because we are sure that the students are intelligent by nature, or simply as less intelligent because their strategy to win the right notes. See the difference? In other words, students get “A” does not necessarily wiser IQ-wise, but they could use the best strategies.
So, what is called “wise” strategies?
• Do you have an organizational system that is a student without a proven system as a one-armed wallpaper post. So I recommended that the child a “weekly tutoring / monthly planners, is a size not for everyone. Some students find a PDA to do the trick for them. Others have developed systems of their own imagination. The bottom line is everything is working properly. Basic rule: In college, rely on your memory is the quickest way to failure.
• in the first row of the class sit, is the first line, called “A Line” is shown by the teachers that students sitting in this line are more likely to “A” s. Why? We do not know really know it is for the wise “students sit so that they in close contact with the teachers or for students to serve fewer distractions and ultimately interact with the teacher more often. For our purposes, the question is irrelevant. The effect to get better grades, that’s what counts for us.