what are the ways to improve a student academic performance?
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study diligently, study conciously, study, study and study
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Hardwork. and remember to pay attention in class. take notes. Go through the textbook the day before a lesson a prepare your self.
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You will learn how to get your studies done quicker through efficiency.\n\nYou will increase your self-satisfaction through your confidence in your ability to get your studies done on time and well.\n\nYou will decrease your stress levels, which will make student life easier in general.\n\ns
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1. Have a regular time and location to study.\n\n2. Get ahold of upcoming lessons and read ahead. *The reason for this is important. If you study ahead - when you do take the subject in class it is a review for you. You'll actually be ahead of the class when preparing for your exam.\n\n3. Work with someone who can help you - not distract you. * This is a mastermind technique you'll use in the business world. Get use to it.\n\n4. No TV. ( a little quiet background music is acceptable)\n\n5. Learn memory techniques. Do not rely on rote memory. * Use ridiculous association for subjects where you have alot of facts to remember. Your mind is like a filing cabinet. If you don't have a filing system you won't know how to retrieve the knowledge when you need it.\n\n6. Use colored post its to mark , "must knows, could knows, and should knows. Remember - most of your hard cover books are filler. Focus on what your teacher wants you to know.\n\n7. Eating before study causes blood to go from the brain to the stomach. Watch when you eat.\n\n8. Get plenty of rest. Don't party on school nights.\n\n9. Do "all your assignments!" "Write all your tests!" - falling behind because of missed assignments or classes will make studying difficult. If you have to miss a class - have someone provide you with notes and <ask> the teacher if you're confused. DO NOT FALL BEHIND!!!! Knowing your subject is like building a house. If you miss information your foundation will be weak and your house will not hold up! That's why students who miss class have a bad time of it.\n\n10. Set a goal for yourself in each subject you take and shoot high. That is to say...shoot for an A and you'll most likely get a B. Write your goal in the present tense - I.e. It is Jun 2007 and I have completed Math 30 with an A plus. (Describe the reaction of your teacher/parents/friends and how good you feel about achieving your goal. "Remember - if a goal doesn't have a time limit set on it - your goal is just a dream!"\n\n11. Never get into a tiff with your teacher - show genuine interest and you'll see a higher grade.\n\n12. Keep good notes - no...excellent notes. Notes that refer back to your text book and highlight the must knows! Have a table of contents.
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effective studying\n- pay full attention to the teachers\n- always do your best in all your works.\n- consisten revision
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As a teacher, I could offer a few tips:\n\n1. Ask your teacher for extra help after school. He or she should be willing to make sure you understand the subject; plus it shows the instructor that you truly care. In addition, see if you can get a classmate to tutor you in any subject you might have difficulty in.\n\n2. Conduct group studies. You'd be surprised to discover how much you can learn studying with friends -- if you remain on topic. Creating a study group the night or two before a big exam could really help you prepare.\n\n3. Eliminate distractions during your study time. Turn you cell phone on vibrate. Turn off the television. Don't pay attention to your AIM. Give your text/notebook/worksheet your undivided attention.\n\nThese are just a few that should help your study habits.
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First you answer all the questions with the right answers in class. Act like you love being there. Then, throw them off by doing the homework they give you, but don't let them know that you hate it. This will trick them into thinking that they are "teaching" you. They will be fooled into giveing you great grades. Good luck
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Studying and getting good grades in high school certainly help. Excellent SAT and ACT test scores, also. Check the web sites of colleges you are interested in and see what their test score requirements are. It also helps to be a 'well rounded' student. That means get involved in various activities in and out of school - sports, band, clubs, volunteer work - the more, the better.
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Not everyone can be first.  The most important thing is to do your best.  Be happy with who you are.\n\nTo improve your grades to a degree, take notes in class, listen closely, use  highlighters when studying, make special note of important vocabulary, and ask your teacher for copies of class notes if that is allowed.  If you are already doing these things, don't agonize so much about being first.  Some people can just naturally be first without studying at all.
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Do the class work and the homework (do a good job).\nPay attention in class.\nSuck up to the teacher.\nDo extra credit work.\nHand everything in on time too.
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Do the homework assigned .. all of it.\n\nand then some.\n\nYou might even try reading the assigned text and working every problem contained in it.\n\nthis appproach would require giving up a social life for\nthe durartion of the class, but it would guarantee passing\nwith a good grade.\n\nIf any problem stops you, go back in the text and do all\nproblems leading up to that one.\n\nAsk teacher if anything you encounter during studying\nis not crystal clear.\n\nyou can do it
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1.) Get in a study group. In college, most successful students study in groups, but in high school, it's rarely done. Group studying allows each person in the group to learn from the other persons in the group. There are 2 facets to this:\na.) If you know something, you can pass it on. Better yet, by teaching a skill that you've mastered (or are mastering), you help keep yourself sharp and help remember the skill.\nb.) If you are having trouble, the rest of the group can share the approaches that helped them understand the problem.\n\n2.) If your still having trouble, consider hiring a tutor, either for yourself, or to work with your group. \n\n3.) Get sleep. Get 8 hours of sleep a night except in rare circumstances. Losing sleep will invariably make it harder for you to learn and remember - studies show that your brain needs sleep to help it process and permanently learn new information learned during the day.\n\n4.) Don't spend too long on one thing. If you're going to study, limit sessions to 2 hours, then go do something else for an hour. Exercise or physical activity is actually a very good way to break up study sessions.\n\n5.) Talk to your teachers, and see if they can't either give you extra help, or barring that, ask if you they can provide you with pointers.\n\n6.) Try the Cornell Note Taking method. See sources.
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Practice taking exams.  A lot of bright people do less well than their academic ability would predict because the have problems, not with the material, but with the exam.  For multiple choice exams, you need to go through the questions at a pretty good pace, put down an answer for each one, but mark the ones you are not sure about.  (Don't leave blanks unless there is a big penalty for guessing.)  Then, go back and look at the marked questions.  For essays, you need to write a brief outline and then plow through it.  Leave room between paragraphs, so if you think of something at the end you can stick it in.  Or, if you have to write a paragraph at the end and add a note as to where it belongs.  Be careful, but don't insist on perfection.  It is better to have 5 logically thought out paragraphs with a few mistakes, than 3 perfect ones that leave your argument unfinished.\nFind as similar an exam as you can and try taking it under as similar a set of circumstances as you can.
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Have a quiet environment and concentrate.\n\nPlan your work.  Do the assignments in the order that they are due; do the ones do first first.\n\nPlan for long range assignments, like term papers and class projects.  Don't put them off until the last minute.\n\nStudy every subject every day.  Don't wait for a test to motivate you.\n\nOnly study what you don't know.  If you already know something, skip it and spend your time on what you don't know.\n\nSearch the internet for the phrase "how to study"  You will find loads of great ideas.
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Improving Your Memory\n\n1) Really think about you want to remember. If you wish to enter information into long-term memory, it is important to think about it. Ask questions about it, consider its meaning, and examine its relationship to information you already know. In other words, engage in “deep processing”. Doing so will help make the new information part of your existing knowledge frameworks – and increase your chances of remembering it at a later time.\n\n2) Pay careful attention to what you really want to remember. Unless you pay careful attention to information you want to remember, it stands little chance of really getting in” – into long-term memory. So, be sure to direct your full attention to the information you want to remember. True, it involves a bit of hard work, but in the long run, it will save you time and effort.\n\n3) Minimize interference. Interference is a major cause of forgetting, and, in general, the more similar materials are, the more likely they are to produce interference. In practical terms, this means that you should arrange your studying so that you don’t study similar objects one right after the other. Instead, work on subjects that are unrelated: the result may be less interference between them, better grades.\n\n4) Engage in distributed learning/practice. Don’t try to cram all the information you want to memorize into long-term storage at once. Rather, if possible, space your studying over several sessions – preferably several days. This is especially true if you want to retain the information for long periods of time rather than just the next examination.\n\n5) Use visual imagery and other mnemonics. You’ve probably already heard the saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. Where memory is concerned, this is sometimes true; it is often easier to remember information associated with vivid mental images (e.g., Gehrig & Toglia, 1989). You can put this principle to use by adopting any one of several different mnemonics – tactics for improving memory. One of these, the method of loci, involves linking points you want to remember with visual images arranged in some familiar order. For instance, suppose you want to remember the points in a speech you will soon be delivering. You can imagine walking through some familiar place, say, your own home. Then, form a series of images in which each item you wish to remember is placed in a specific location. Perhaps the first point is “The greenhouse effect is real”. You might imagine a large, steamy greenhouse right outside your front door. The next point might be “Cutting down the rain forest is increasing the greenhouse effect”. For this one, you might imagine a large, cut down tree in your living room. You would form other images, in a different location, for the other points you want to make. Then, by taking an imaginary walk through your house, you can “see” each of these images and thus remember the points in your speech.\n\n6) Give yourself retrieval clues. Remember the concept of state-dependent retrieval? As noted previously, you can use this principle to provide yourself with extra retrieval cues and so help enhance your memory. For instance, if you studied for a test while in a physical state, try to be in the same state when you take it – this may help. Similarly, use the principle of mood-dependent memory. If you learned some material while in a given mood and then want to remember it, try to put yourself in this same mood. This is not as hard as it may sound: you can often vary your own mood by imagining happy or sad events. To the degree that your mood now matches your mood when you learned the information, your memory may be enhanced for it.\n\n7) Develop your own shortcut codes. To learn the names of the planets in our solar system, many children use the first letter technique, in which the first letter of each word in a phrase stands for an item to be remembered. So, the sentence “Mary’s Viol
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You can improve your score by studying, but only a certain amount.\n\nFor example, MENSA accepts scores from standardized tests like the SATs, ACTs and GREs.  You can buy a study guide or take a class if you want to improve your score.  Basically you just need to develop habits that conform to the sorts of problems encountered in each type of test.
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(a) Learn the material and practice.\n(b) What about you needs improvement besides appropriate use of capital letters and asking a question clearly enough to get a good answer?