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Hello there
I'm Natalie and today's video is going to be on how to get straight A's
Plus survive school and just tips of that sort these tips will help you I promise
They're just not gonna be coming from me. I brought a guest he gets straight A's he's, a med student he is Dennis
Dennis
Dennis gets straight A's I don't have the best practices whereas Dennis does have a really awesome practices
So he's gonna be giving you guys a lot of tips and tricks for you to get A's
So let's get started
A list of what you want to believe you're in school to be in school like...
You don't go to socialize you don't go to talk to your friends even though it's a good part of school
It's not what you're mainly there for and by being in the first row
It makes you focus on the teacher, and it gives you initiative too
Because when you're in the first row it kind of shows like you're ready you're confident
You're gonna be raising your hand, and you're not kind of in the back
I am the kind of person that I get really distracted
Like I start looking around at like people's hair. Just getting distracted, but sitting in the first row
You're kind of obligated to just stare at the teacher and typically the people that sit first row tend to be the ones that
Do better in class are the most active yeah?
And I mean if you socialize with the people that are caring about their grades and really try to do good in the class
Then I mean they kind of also pushes you towards doing good in the class right
So the second tip that we have is... I don't know... Mentality
Fantastic class of a lot of people you feel like it's you against the whole class
Ok
And sometimes you feel a little discouraged have to
Convince yourself that you can be that one person in the class that like I tell natalie breaks the curve yes by
Feeling or just having that notion in your mind that you can be the best in the class literally um that makes you excel
Yeah, it makes you feel better and makes you do it you can really relate that to anything in life like don't compare yourself
So much to other people but more so try to be the best you and cliché as that is but yeah
It really does always go for breaking the curse
Yeah break that curse always make an effort to go above the average grade. Do you try that... uh?
I don't try that but it's not something I don't want to do
Basically push yourself by the success of others... try not to be average you got to do a little better?
Yeah, be your best self to you best
Okay, my notes tend to be very scattered kind of colorful
And I think that is a problem like too much color just distracts you. I'm like oh. I want this to be purple
I want this to be blue and then I'm more focused on the color than the actual content
I'm very created very visual, but if it helps you hey it helps you use a certain color for certain things
And it works his notes are...
Something you want to buy
So if you have like a definition for example that you need to really memorize so you would write definitions strictly in red yeah
So that's just red
So red does red really help you because I feel like red is an ugly color for a lot of people
I mean, you can make it any color
But I use it red
And then if it's like a specific note that you know is important that might
Probably come up on the test
And you would use a different color like blue and then your average notes you use black
Which isn't the average color if you're using pens, I tend to write in pens. I don't write in pencil usually
What I do is I do it like this master paper, okay?
Right and it's this one white blank piece of paper with no lines no. No book lines. It actually looks so much better
I try to jam everything I need to know on to one page
So that if I need to know anything at any moment I can just refer to that one page
Yeah, just know what it is right, and you can just go to it anytime you want
Yeah, good plan
That's what I do
Tip number four is
Recording in class recording in class, I don't know if that's allowed in high school and middle school, so this might just go for college
But if your teacher does allow you if you're like an auditory listener
Then you should I guess record. He does this all the time?
There's a lot of people in classes that use actual recorders
But I only recently started doing the recordings when I got into upper-level classes that required a lot of listening and
Like I have said lots of times on teachers leave things out of either the
Powerpoints or the textbooks right and you might miss something during class that you don't realize that you didn't hear right and it could potentially
Be a question on a test
Potentially a fifth tip, fifth tip well you gotta know your teacher. Yeah, it gives you an edge over certain things
You're trying to do a sport and maybe knowing someone could really I don't know give you that edge over somebody else or knowing that
Knowing the PE teacher right knowing that PE teacher anything just knowing your teachers is always good, just creating that relationship
I mean for high school. You're gonna be there for four years
So you might as well get to know the people around you and be in good terms with
Thinking more along the lines of like recommendation letters. Oh yeah
I don't know if this is a don't but I say don't take school so seriously in this in the sense that
You don't want to make school your everything like you need to aspire to do other things
Hobbies, uh have things ha ha yeah, I agree. I agree, who agrees with me, agree with me
You really want to do good at?
What you do? Yeah, you need to surround yourself with what you do all the time right that goes for academic people
But what about people that are like artistic and things like that what I'm trying to say you can surround themselves with art
Yeah, all the time. It's like their hobby it has to be something
What I'm trying to say don't take school seriously is don't get stressed out over school. I get stressed out, no
It's not worth it because it's only a little portion of your life, and you need to be
Sane for the rest of your life. I feel like but you can't take it - you can't take it lightly
But don't take it so seriously to the point where you're stressed out all the time. You're studying way too much
I don't know
I just don't find the value in that I study a lot all the time you study a lot, but you study well
That's why I told you I wanted you to be here because I don't know how to study as well as you do
But regardless of whether you study well or not. I still study for hours on end like I don't
Write you usually slack off if I have some time on the side
Another quick tip aside from that you know, I study a lot at school. Yeah, I go to the library and study at school
Yeah, and I feel like it's very beneficial
Because if you're at home you have lots of things on hand that you could be doing and you can be distracting like Netflix or
like computer or whatever
But if you're at school in the library you literally have nothing else to do other than just
Study right, then you have to-bring a sweater it gets cold- forces you to study. Yeah, I guess you're right, studying for a while
Like an hour and you can take a 10-minute break
Amd eat or go on Instagram really quick and then get back to it
You know but give yourself a break because it's important, so yeah
All right, that's it for today. Thank you for joining us
That's for today's video. Let's give Dennis a round of applause. Thank you so much for coming
We really appreciate it. See you next time
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