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7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by Nobody: 7:34pm On Dec 19, 2014
All that glitters is not gold. Similarly, a popular
Igbo proverb says that because all lizards lie
on their stomach, you will never know the
one(s) that have running stomach. I wonder
if lizards do have running stomach but that’s
just by the way.
What’s my point?
OK. There are so many students in schools
but then, there are students and there are
students.
It could also be hard as well as confusing to
identify those who are really qualified to bear
honorable status of student i.e. those who
are really the serious and those who aren’t.
What spurred me into this direction?
Just the other day, I was chatting with a very
worried parent whose child seem to be
unable to graduate from the university 3
years after the normal duration of his 5 year
course.
I was alarmed because I immediately knew
why this parent was going through…for the
past three years, maybe.
I really felt for him because his worriment
really showed.
How could I tell him that pooty things like
that can happen…? I mean, how can I tell him
that it was partly his fault that things are the
way they are now simply because he rather
left it too late with regards to checking up on
his boy’s academic progress up
until now…? How can I tell him that there is
thing called “carry-over” which is course/s
that his boy must have failed and must pass
before he can graduate…?
When he said that he is even more confused
now than ever
because he is tired of hearing different
version of the almost impossible mumbo-
jumbos his boy was regularly spitting out, I
knew I just had to tell him.
That was because I sensed it from something
he said and from the way he unknowingly
hinted me that he now suspects his boy was
an unserious student.
In case you are in the same boat like this
parent, or maybe you really want to rate your
wards, or your friends and/or even yourself
to know if s/he is a serious student or not or
to know how serious you are with your
academics, I will try to help you do so by
presenting you with some of these pointers
with which
you can base your serious-student evaluation
upon.
This is how.
A serious student…
1.Knows his/her Grade Point Average (GPA)
I don’t know any other better method than
this with which to instantly identify a serious
student. In fact, I think it is the fastest way to
identify a serious student on the spot!
Your GPA is the standard used in ranking and
rating students’ performance in college so
any serious student is supposed to be aware
of this very important score.
Granted, it is not always possible for many
students to know the exact figure, but then
when you come across any student who
does not even have any slightest idea what
his or her own GPA figure is, like this
sophomore student that even asked me
“what is GP?”, take it from me, you are
looking at a confirmed unserious student.
So do you know your GPA? You see?
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by Nobody: 7:35pm On Dec 19, 2014
2.Knows the nature of the question of any
upcoming
examination(s)
This is so true because any serious students
must have done his or her assignment
thoroughly and must have mastered all the
“tricks” which the lecturer or examiner is
going to adopt in the exams proper.
A serious student knows that the exam
questions are not going to be very much
different from those of the assignments and
past question papers and as such s/he have
familiarized as well as prepared himself very
well with them so well for the sake of what
lies ahead.
3.S/he is never taken unawares because s/he
is always prepared.
In fact, the real serious students are known
to be able to complete ALL their major school
work one or two month’s ahead before the
examination timetable comes out! This is one
of the reasons why some very sharp students
who don’t seem to be reading (that much)
still stay tops in the class at the end of the
day!
But if you come across any fidgeting student
who is confused and sometimes completely
lost (most especially on the exam day just
some few hours before the exams start),
simply because s/he does not have any
inkling what the exam questions may look
like, my two cents, s/he is a very very
unserious student.
S/he has failed to plan by preparing early
enough and as such has failed already unless
“help” in the form of exam malpractice
comes from “somewhere”.
One other thing, a serious student usually
has an idea of his examination score even
before the papers are marked once he is
through with that very paper.
I can almost hear you say, “…and so does the
unserious student too!” but then I know you
know what I am talking about.
4.Knows where to get help.
A serious student knows where to get help.
The help I am about here is not “expo” or
“runs” which is just the slang terms used for
examination malpractice in Nigeria.
S/he has no need for such distracting things.
S/he knows that there’s dignity in labor and
so s/he will always strive to achieve
excellence through honest labor.
Most times, you see some students
complaining that they don’t know what to
read or where to get the reading materials
they think they need.
The serious students don’t usually fall into
this group.
And that’s because they already know how,
when and where
they can get easily help. They know when the
textbooks they need is available in the library.
They know the willing students and/or
lecturers who might be kind enough to give
them such materials should the need arise.
They know how to make use of the internet
to solidify their knowledge in a particular
subject rather than wait for the lecturer to
carry the whole class usually at his ‘slow’
pace.
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by Nobody: 7:37pm On Dec 19, 2014
4.Encourages others to succeed.
This is usually because any serious student
knows that there is no pride in mediocrity.
You may be tempted to think that being the
best amongst many who don’t know
anything is good but is it?
There is no challenge. There is no zeal or
need to keep pushing yourself up to the limit.
There is nothing to stimulate the brain. No
way to measure how good you are getting.
Simply put, there is no fun in studying
anymore.
So to avoid this, a serious student will have
no other choice than to encourage others to
succeed. S/he normally does this either by
organizing tutorials or discussion class for a
group of people or even the whole class. He
will also tell those students who are
seeking in truth where to get help.
This will help him kill two birds with one
stone. First other students will succeed and
they will have no other choice than to
attribute this success to him. Secondly, he will
have his real reason to be on his toes, up and
doing, knowing now that backsliding is not
an option.
Besides, by teaching others, s/he is able to
learn more.
I have heard many students who are often
times complaining that the serious/intelligent
students will not easily want to disclose the
information on how to get through to others
because s/he normally wants to succeed
alone.
In as much as I will not want to deny the
possibility of
selfishness that could sometimes arise, I still
know that such students complaining may
just be doing so for the sake of excuse. They
might not have even tried enough to get this
help from the serious ones.
I have this to say to them.
Why are you complaining? Aren’t both of you
students or are some students more equal
than the others now? See my friend, stop
complaining. Stop waiting for that intelligent
student to come to you and help you out
because most likely, it won’t happen. S/he is
not in school because of you. If you need
help, go out and seek it.
Get off that high horse of yours right now
and put on the toga of humility and grab the
all help you need
from him now that you still have the time…
5.Knows the full details of “what’s next?”
Many students don’t have any idea why they
are in school. Some think it is just normal to
be in school while many others think they are
doing their parents some form of favor just
by doing that.
Many others have come to the conclusion
that going to school equates to getting a
good paying job in the end.
Yes. I don’t know why you are in school but
one good advice I always give to people is to
always try as much as possible to identify the
reason/s why they are in school or why they
want to go to school in the case of those
who are still seeking admission.
By doing this simple check and evaluation,
one can easily put him or herself in the path
of becoming a serious student by putting
everything in perspective in less than a
minute!
This single action will also expose any
student who really wants to succeed in life
(after school) to that very open secret that
school is not all about academics alone. It will
also enable him to realize that really “all work
without play makes ….”
6.Never takes pride in missing lectures.
When he misses his lectures, he normally
feels like he has let him down. She knows the
importance of lectures. He knows that some
tricky lecturers normally base their
examination questions on what they said in
class more than what you copied down in
your notes or what you can find in the
textbooks.
Quite unlike his opposite who even rejoices
with the news that lectures have been
postponed or won’t even hold at all, a serious
student never takes pride in missing lectures.
Using Nigerian case as a very good example,
school systems and academic calendar are
normally haphazard or disorganized because
of frequent disruptions mostly from labor
strikes.
The unserious student is usually looking
forward to such strikes so as to ‘relax’ his
brain.
Please don’t make me laugh, okay…? But
these strike normally cause the school
academic duration to be much reduced such
that courses that should have ran for
three months or more are rushed through in
two or three weeks!
Lecturers may have to adjust by telling
students not to cover the whole study area
they would have normally covered had it
been there was still time…
Hooray! says the unserious student!
This may cause many exams to clash with
many students having to write more papers
than they could normally handle. And
sometimes to ease things off, such papers
could be postponed.
Another pleasing news to the ears of the
unserious student who doesn’t even know
or care that useful time is being wasted.
But all these bother the serious ones. And
that’s because s/he knows that s/he is the
one at the loosing end!
So with all these aforementioned, do you
now know how to
recognize an unserious student? Or better
still, are you a serious student?
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by Nobody: 7:39pm On Dec 19, 2014
5.Encourages others to succeed.
This is usually because any serious student
knows that there is no pride in mediocrity.
You may be tempted to think that being the
best amongst many who don’t know
anything is good but is it?
There is no challenge. There is no zeal or
need to keep pushing yourself up to the limit.
There is nothing to stimulate the brain. No
way to measure how good you are getting.
Simply put, there is no fun in studying
anymore.
So to avoid this, a serious student will have
no other choice than to encourage others to
succeed. S/he normally does this either by
organizing tutorials or discussion class for a
group of people or even the whole class. He
will also tell those students who are
seeking in truth where to get help.
This will help him kill two birds with one
stone. First other students will succeed and
they will have no other choice than to
attribute this success to him. Secondly, he will
have his real reason to be on his toes, up and
doing, knowing now that backsliding is not
an option.
Besides, by teaching others, s/he is able to
learn more.
I have heard many students who are often
times complaining that the serious/intelligent
students will not easily want to disclose the
information on how to get through to others
because s/he normally wants to succeed
alone.
In as much as I will not want to deny the
possibility of
selfishness that could sometimes arise, I still
know that such students complaining may
just be doing so for the sake of excuse. They
might not have even tried enough to get this
help from the serious ones.
I have this to say to them.
Why are you complaining? Aren’t both of you
students or are some students more equal
than the others now? See my friend, stop
complaining. Stop waiting for that intelligent
student to come to you and help you out
because most likely, it won’t happen. S/he is
not in school because of you. If you need
help, go out and seek it.
Get off that high horse of yours right now
and put on the toga of humility and grab the
all help you need
from him now that you still have the time…
6.Knows the full details of “what’s next?”
Many students don’t have any idea why they
are in school. Some think it is just normal to
be in school while many others think they are
doing their parents some form of favor just
by doing that.
Many others have come to the conclusion
that going to school equates to getting a
good paying job in the end.
Yes. I don’t know why you are in school but
one good advice I always give to people is to
always try as much as possible to identify the
reason/s why they are in school or why they
want to go to school in the case of those
who are still seeking admission.
By doing this simple check and evaluation,
one can easily put him or herself in the path
of becoming a serious student by putting
everything in perspective in less than a
minute!
This single action will also expose any
student who really wants to succeed in life
(after school) to that very open secret that
school is not all about academics alone. It will
also enable him to realize that really “all work
without play makes ….”
6.Never takes pride in missing lectures.
When he misses his lectures, he normally
feels like he has let him down. She knows the
importance of lectures. He knows that some
tricky lecturers normally base their
examination questions on what they said in
class more than what you copied down in
your notes or what you can find in the
textbooks.
Quite unlike his opposite who even rejoices
with the news that lectures have been
postponed or won’t even hold at all, a serious
student never takes pride in missing lectures.
Using Nigerian case as a very good example,
school systems and academic calendar are
normally haphazard or disorganized because
of frequent disruptions mostly from labor
strikes.
The unserious student is usually looking
forward to such strikes so as to ‘relax’ his
brain.
Please don’t make me laugh, okay…? But
these strike normally cause the school
academic duration to be much reduced such
that courses that should have ran for
three months or more are rushed through in
two or three weeks!
Lecturers may have to adjust by telling
students not to cover the whole study area
they would have normally covered had it
been there was still time…
Hooray! says the unserious student!
This may cause many exams to clash with
many students having to write more papers
than they could normally handle. And
sometimes to ease things off, such papers
could be postponed.
Another pleasing news to the ears of the
unserious student who doesn’t even know
or care that useful time is being wasted.
But all these bother the serious ones. And
that’s because s/he knows that s/he is the
one at the loosing end!
So with all these aforementioned, do you
now know how to
recognize an unserious student? Or better
still, are you a serious student?
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by Nobody: 7:41pm On Dec 19, 2014
Very true.
Also, serious students usually associate with their likes. Birds of a feather flock together
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by CzarRex: 7:52pm On Dec 19, 2014
Jst too long 4 readin...I need a summary undecided
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by boman2014: 7:58pm On Dec 19, 2014
My GoD! This post looks like a 'LoOng' novel
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by dkronicle(m): 8:19pm On Dec 19, 2014
in secondary school, i was in number 3 group.
Re: 7 steps on How To Recognise Serious Students On Campus(must Read) by Odunukwe30: 2:50pm On Jan 13, 2015
The effects of exam malpractice is devastating, this research shows its effects on the secondary sch, cross river state
click
www.uniprojectsearch.com/?p=9

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