Sturgeon Composite High School - Managing Your Time

Improving Your Grades

Managing Your Time
Students have very busy lives. Finding time for studies and homework can be difficult for students who work after school, participate on a team, are involved in clubs or any of the many other extracurricular opportunities at the school. With a little planning, you can still have enough time for your school work while maintaining a busy schedule outside of school.

A Useful Hint
A useful hint is to list your exams and major assignments on a calendar as you learn about them. A better strategy is to write that exam or assignment on every day staring from the day when you first learn about it all the way to the day its due. If you include the other important things as well (i.e. Susan's birthday is on the 12st, hockey practice every Tuesday and Thursday evening, work from 4:00 to 10:00 p.m. on Friday,...) then you will be able to see the days when you will be pressured for time and be able to work around them as a result. Do not limit your options by leaving a major assignment or the preparation for an exam until a point where they will compete for the very limited time during these busy days.

Plan ahead
if you know an essay is due one week from today, ensure that you have your outline done by tomorrow and your first draft done by mid week. This approach ensures that you will have sufficient time to do a good job on your work even if you need to rewrite a portion of a paper to get it ready for grading.

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