My grades :(.

[bunkermaster10]

Man I don't know what I've been doing in school lately. I have turned in all my homework all year so far, but when it comes to test I get like D's and F's. It really freaking sucks.

Chemistry I have like a 68.
Spanish I have a 69.3.
And World History I have like a 67.

Grades go out this Friday .

All high D's. I'm not dumb or anything...., but when It comes to test I seem to forget everything and do bad. I haven't missed any HW so far this year.

What should I start doing that will help? Besides just to "Study". I try to study, but I forget everything when the test is on my desk. I really want to go to college and all, but my GPA is only at 2.6. I'm really nervious about all this stuff... .

[bunkermaster10]

I look to AO for good advice.

By the way: My sister did great in Highschool and I'm not doing to well as you can see. It really sucks.

[jdev]

try to make correlations between things you are learning and things you know/will remember.

kind of like how they did it in road trip, only i suppose you can use something like paintball as opposed to wrestling. just have to find somethat that you can relate to in the subject.

(:sigh: i know im making sense to myself.. whether or not i make it to everyone else is more important)

[PyRo]

I used to have stupid things to remember things by. Cannot really think of any examples. WHen I used to Caddy I could never remember which clubs were whose, so I made stupid things, like this bag looks gay, and his shirt it gay because... and thats how I remembered whose stuff was whose. Found some feature bewteen the bag and the guy. Did the same thing for tests, like part of the name of a word I would link to somthing else somhow, and it ended up working quite well. I never did homework (but I had ways of making the teachers think I did), and I studied about a hlaf hour or each test, and pulled low 90's, so I think my method works

[FreakBaller12]

686-8-69's r high D'S!!!!????
that's failign for my school

[PyRo]

65 is usually failing isn't it?

[gamarada717]

Yeah, relating things to something else is the way to do it. For instance, I remembered that I had a test over the names and locations for every county in Arkansas. We hadn't done any of it in school,(this is Arkansas history, so all year long it will sure be nice to know where things are). I memorized like 78 counties in 30 minutes, just by doing stuff like that. See if you can find any websites the specialize in memorization, we even did a study on that in GT, and it's made me a better student. Just be sure not to study the hard things too much and not study the easy ones at all-then you'll feel like an idiot when you get the tests back.

[AcemanPB]

Originally posted by PyRo
65 is usually failing isn't it?

Anything lower than a 70 is at my school...

[-=Squid=-]

50 is failing in our school. Good thing my grades arent below 80s anyways.

[Johnny_Reb]

50 is failing in our school. Good thing my grades arent below 80s anyways.

50 is failing at Special Ed at my school too.

[Ov3rmind]

Originally posted by AcemanPB


Anything lower than a 70 is at my school...

Wow, sucks ot be at your school. 59% is failing over here.

[Warewolf50]

Just try not to worry so much about your tests, you forget things when u freak out. Dont beat yourself up, just remember u start out with all a;s this quarter keep them that way. Good luck.

[Lohman446]

Try this once... it may or may not work (it worked for me, I was a slacker and pulled high 90s).

Learn to skim read, catching details fully and only half-reading the rest of the text (I know this sounds odd but cut your reading time down, read your textbooks like you would a paintball magazine). Try this for a chapter, then check the questions at the back of the chapter (assuming they are still there) - can you answer them... if you can you've gained what you should have from the text.

This has always helped me spend less time studying and helped me to do better... people get freaked out when they try to study, some people have to, but don't always think studying harder is the way to do it, study better - try different methods and see what works best for you.

[PyRo]

Originally posted by gamarada717
Yeah, relating things to something else is the way to do it. For instance, I remembered that I had a test over the names and locations for every county in Arkansas. We hadn't done any of it in school,(this is Arkansas history, so all year long it will sure be nice to know where things are). I memorized like 78 counties in 30 minutes, just by doing stuff like that.

Arkansas, what is that? Who cares

[BobTheCow]

Skim-reading is the way to go. If you're bad at taking notes, or just CAN'T make yourself take notes at him (I am like that), you MUST force yourself to pay attention in class and write down everything important. Writing things is almost a guarentee for memorization, much moreso than just reading... although ACTIVE reading is important too!!