How Plan Your Semester To Boost Your GPA

 

Planning and organizing is very important behind every success. When you are organized, you automatically reduce the amount of time and effort. Planning help you to focus more on unexpected problems and matters. If we make a plan at the start of the whole semester and follow accordingly it will impact positively in our educational achievements and GPA. Our GPA (Grade Point Average) is the average grade we hold across our entire academic career. It fluctuates depending on the grades we earn in each of the classes we take. Each grade we receive for each class we take over a semester goes toward our GPA. The average of these points is our GPA.

BE PUCTUAL:

Many teachers give lectures directly from power point and post the slides to the university portal. This makes it easy for students who skip classes that any time when they want to study they download lectures from portal and learn the material on their own. This will help you in easy courses but you will face problems in challenging ones. By skipping classes students miss out many important things and concepts like detailed verbal explanations that are key to understand basic concepts, chance to ask any question about topic and listen to the other question answers special announcements and opportunities to get extra credit. If you frequently miss out classes it will leave a bad impression on your instructor that he or she perceived and thought that you disrespect for the teacher and the subject matter. It will also impact on attendance may be at the end of the semester your attendance get shorted because of attending short classes.

PARTICIPATE IN CLASSES:

Class participation shows your teacher that you are interested and eager to learn. It will also help you to remember discussion and material from class to class. You first need to sit in the first row. It will build your self-confidence and automatically engage you in the lecture. Moreover you will develop a relationship easily with the teacher and have a much easier time maintaining focus. When you are asking questions you think in a creative way. Asking questions will help you clarify topics that might have confused you and gives teacher opportunity to present the same material in a different way.

ORGANIZE YOURSELF:

Organizing and planning is the key to success. Planning strategy complements your schedule and learning style. Teaching style of each teacher is different. Some teachers use power point slides to deliver their lectures and some give handouts and text books. The best way to handle this problem is to develop a note taking system that works with each teachers teaching style. It can help you throughout the semester and contribute your motivation better. Try using an expandable folder with dividers to organize your papers from each class. Create a-to do list everyday include small goals you want to accomplish. Use a weekly planner to write down what is due in your classes each week. It will help you to prioritize when you create a study schedule for the week. When your exams are coming put them into a planner and start planning a schedule.

APPROACH THE COURSE LECTURER:

Teachers make themselves available for their students at regular times during the week to ask questions about any topic they want. You can take advantage of this opportunity. It will help you clearly understand problems that are not clearly explained in the lectures and build your reputation as a high effort student who deserves high grades. If you have an issue with the grades you are currently getting you may talk this issue to the teacher and demanded for change of your grades.

JOIN GOOD FELLOWSHIP:

Courses that involve group work, assignments and projects you need to make a group for them.as in projects no one want to do all the work themselves. Working with smart people will facilitate discussion. People to whom we are working with also affect our academic career. If you are working and sitting with bad students who are not interested in learning you are behaving like them and cannot concentrate on your studies. You should make a group with students who have similar interests and ambitions. If you are making friendship with high GPA students they will help you in the courses that seems difficult to you.

STUDY SMART BY USING LIBRARY AND INTERNET RESEARCH:

Some teachers offer opportunities for extra credit you try to take advantage of them. Extra credits boost your average and enhance your experience. Study smart means setting realistic goals that determine to work hard. In order to improve your grades you need to do a lot of hard work. Our study time will be more productive if we use university library. Reading a lot makes you better thinker and better student. Library will help you in research projects. Moreover English books give you diverse sources of information. Online research will help you to tackle difficult course. There are so many you tube videos and online explaining concepts that will help you to manage difficult course. You can download material relevant to your course to have a good grasp over a difficult course.

CONCLUSION:

Being smart will help you to get good grades but it is not enough. Neither is studying nonstop. The key to academic success is being disciplined, organized, setting realistic and smart goals and efficient in your study habits.