School....So Much To Handle On First Day.....A-Honoroll....Pressure....Help!

You see today was my first day back at school and my last year in middle school, I want to attend an Early College for high school. But, anyway I also want to be recognized during graduating for receiving A Honoroll all year. Simply because last year I was an usher at graduation and I noticed that kids don't get to walk across a stage, and the only person that really gets recognized are those who receive A Honoroll at ONE point in the year, but there hasn't been anyone recently who has received it all year (at least not in the 8th grade).


So What I Really Need Is Some Good 'Ol Advice On How To Manage All Of My Studies And Such And Still Make An A?

first piece of advice: honor roll is two words.  spelling counts in college.

thanks lol....i always 4get about that one

You get an A by managing all of your studies...the answer was in the question.

1. don't skip- ever

2. do all your homework, ALL of it

3. study

4. ASK FOR HELP

thats all you really need. And why I only got a 3.5 in high school...but when you get to college none of it really matter anyways :D

First off, not to burst your bubble, but middle school doesn't matter.
I got straight As from K-8th grade & it meant absolutely NOTHING in the grand scheme of things. However, I did continue on & got straight As all 4 years of HS & ended up with a full ride to college, so you can use this time to really develop your study habits & all. 

If you really MUST get Honor Roll, I don't know what advice we can give you... you just need to be intelligent & good at taking tests, studying, etc. It'll most likely take a lot of work.

So in conclusion, my advice is to enjoy this year & don't kill yourself trying to make the honor roll. I can guarantee walking across the stage will only matter for about 2 hours after you do it. Then you'll forget about it.

Probably not what you wanted to hear, but it's my two cents.

To an extent, starcossdlovex is right. Middle school doesn't much matter in most ways for your future. The ways it did matter for me was that in order to be in the advanced classes in High School, you had to have passed the advanced classes in middle school, and so on.

Getting honor roll all year is a good goal, but here is my tip. I got honor roll all through MS and HS, but I wanted straight A's. You want to know the only time I ever made straight A's? My senior year in High School when I had stopped trying or worrying about it. That's not to say I wasn't a good student. I studied and did my homework and such, but I stopped stressing about my grades. That, in turn, I think made me more relaxed and able to actually do better on tests and projects and such.

So, work hard, but not too hard. Don't stress if you don't make the perfect grades on everything, and as long as you're doing well, don't worry about it too much.

I think I turned out OK. I got a full scholarship to my college and did very well there, too (where I worried even less about my grades).

Good Luck!

i'm gonna have to say that middle school doesn't matter, like everyone else.  and honestly, i was an excellent student all through school including high school and it didn't matter one bit.  i wish i'd taken more time to have fun, and do extra curricular things, because it's that and grades that matters.  I also wish someone had told me that transferring to a college was easier than getting in out of high school.  i'd have saved myself almost 40K in a years tuition at NeU.  I'm a senior in college now with almost a 4.o and 2 years co-op experience, and i can't honestly say THAT's what matters because it'll get me a job!

well, i just finished 8th this year; ill be starting 9th this september.

i know what you mean about the pressure to be on honor roll (in my case, its especially if all your friends are on it..). I was accepted to a 7-12 high school, so graduation wasnt my concern in 8th grade, but i can still understand your feelings..

 

well.. first off, saying you want to do well in a school year.. wont work. -shrugs- sorry.. usually, people (like myself) start off every single school year saying something like that.

 

if you dont force yourself to do well, youre just going to slack off (cough. like myself).

 

its easy for me to suggest you study for all of your tests and go over class notes every night, in order to sound like a smartass in class. but for some people, its still impossible to get on honor roll with that.

 

what i suggest, is that you make a schedule for yourself. this would even work well with your calorie count.

 

you can change stuff around, like, if you want to watch tv before hw rather than after. but this is just an example:

6 AM: breakfast

7-8 AM: commute

8 AM-3 PM: school

3-3:30 PM: snack

3:30-6:30: two FULL hours of doing your homework to the best degree possible.

whenever you finish your hw to 7: tv

7 PM: dinner

8-10 PM:  two FULL hours of studying ANYTHING you can, even if you dont have to.

11: bed.

 

 

if you make a schedule like that, and FORCE yourself to NOT get up from your desk for two full hours and just sit and study.. youll get somewhere. but thats only if you stay commited.

honestly, if you chose the right courses, do the work, go to class, and participate.. you should do fine.

i'm just going into grade twelve now (last year of high-school) and i'm pretty nervous. it was a big slap in the face for me because i felt like one minute i was just a kid, and the next minute i was on the brink of adulthood, and once you become an adult.. you become the person you're going to be for the rest of your life.

crud.. double-posted.

Well I wouldn't follow a schedule like starbunny suggested. To be honest, colleges are more likely to accept students with less than a 4.0 but were involved with sports, extracurriculars, jobs, volunteer work, etc something that showed they had a life. As long as you take good classes (try AP, you WONT regret it I would fail at college without knowledge about writing essays and the work ethic) it's not that big of a deal as long as you make As and Bs (the occasional C won't kill you either if its a hard class). I got a 3.5 weighted and was accepted to every public school in my state and a couple good out of state ones (with a scholarship) while playing varsity sports, editor on the newspaper, volunteering, and marching band. My school had 16 valedictorians, none of them actually got to have a speech. All I know is that high school is the time of LESS stress, COLLEGE is when the stress begins.

So why start stressing in high school, or middle school for that matter??

Do keep in mind that an award you get in middle school isn't going to affect your life too much... but I still have all my middle school honours awards up on my bedroom wall back at my parents' place, along with my high school academic letter. Even though after being accepting into university nothing pre-degree matters any more, I'm still proud of those achievements.

So, if you are serious about getting that award, go for it. I suggest learning the most effective study habits for you. Learning how to study effectively now is definitely a good investment in your future, if you plan to continue on to university after high school.

These are the big things that have helped me to get good grades:

1. Don't procrastinate. Get assignments done in half the time you are given to do them

2. Create a second set of notes for all your classes that sums up everything in point form. Profs here often allow students to take in a single page of notes to a final. Why? Because if you can shorten everything you know to fit on a single sheet of paper you're going to know it inside-out and backwards and most students don't even glance at the sheet during the exam.

Oh! And do get in on the extra-curriculars. If you need to spend 24 hours a day doing middle school work in order to get the grades you want, you're either doing it wrong or your standards are too high. That, and you may go insane...

I think at a middle school level you should be spending at most 1 1/2 hours a night on homework, maybe a little extra if there's a big project of test coming up. High school will increase a bit more to maybe 3 hours. University... uhh... you'll find out when you get there.