5 Ways a student can improve CGPA this Next Semester

You know that feeling of frustration you feel when you have read, studied, spent countless hours staying awake to understand that particular course only to look at your result on the notice board at the end of the semester, and it is below average.

After I successfully graduated in 2010 with a First class result, I sat down to write down the steps i took along the way to success. Being a great student in high school doesn't culminate into success in the higher institutions. I made this assumption too but you see, it's a different ball game here.

After enduring 2 years of average results, I eventually stumbled on 5 principles that I rode on till I graduated. These principles were encountered during my prayer and meditation session in my 3rd/4th year in school, however they are general and potent principles that will improve your CGPA this next semester. I have re-written them to better suit every student out there.

1. Love difficult Courses: I have come to understand that nothing really is difficult. Your difficulty is someone else's simplicity. As difficult as ball juggling seems, there are people who excel at it. It takes consistent practice to simplify a difficult task. In the school setting, students are prone to suspend the difficult courses till the exam period approaches, while focusing on the seemingly easy ones. But in real practice, the more you spend time with the difficult courses, the better you will become at them.

2. See yourself as the best in the class: This works like magic. Here is the mentality of average students; they tell themselves they are not the best, they can never compete with the best and as such the brain responds by producing an average understanding for them. The more you see yourself as the best, the more you will naturally be driven to work harder than usual. You were not born dull, no one was. We are products of our levels of exposure to knowledge.

3. Target the High Grades: I sat for an exam in school and all I wanted to score was just a C grade. I was not thoroughly prepared, and I had more than 3 days to prepare thoroughly, but I was not prepared to stress myself further, so I aimed for a C, and studied to match. Unfortunately, I had a D. A lot of students now are like this. They just want to pass and avoid failure so they study few stuff that will get them across to the next level only to be disappointed. If you aim for an A, no matter how difficult the course or the exam will be, you will not fall below a B or C. Just like the saying, "If you aim for the heavens, you may miss but you won't miss landing on the skies"

4. Stop baby sitting your brain: Sound funny right?, Yea it isn't because that is basically what most average students do without knowing. You see, no one ever tells the stomach how to digest food, no one tells the anus what colour of faeces to produce, so stop controlling your brain on how to understand. Your duty is just to study, let the brain do the rest. When you begin to reduce your studying due to the fear of having a brain disorder, you are missing it. Good exposure to knowledge does not lead to brain disorder.

5. Set Questions for yourself: In our Nigerian education system, our lecturers and teachers are rather too busy pursuing other stuff than to have time to set fresh exam questions. Most will rather set questions from their lecture materials, others from past questions or a combination of both. So if you can do that for yourself for every course and answer them before the exam, you stand a great chance to scale the exam hurdle

6. ***Bonus - Be spiritual: This led to the discovery of the 5 principles above. The closer you are to God, the more you will have access to some divine realm of knowledge. Psalms 25:12,14

I have been invited by schools, churches and fellowship bodies to teach these principles to their students, and the results have been amazing. You too by reading through this post will perform amazingly this next semester if you follow the steps properly. 

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