It is the dream of every undergraduate to graduate in flying colours. It will also be a thing of joy for parents to see their children graduate with an excellent result. It is believed that an excellent result is a step closer to your dream job.
Therefore, in the quest for excellence, you must understand that excellence has a prize attached to it. You don’t stumble upon excellence by mistake. If you must be excellent in the end, then there is a prize tag attached to it. There’s also no short cut to excellence.
In like manner, as a student who wants to graduate with excellent grades, this article is carefully written for you as a guide to achieve your goals. Carefully go through the points and apply them in your own life. In the end, an excellent result will come calling. Below are the steps you take to make an excellent result. You will also need to read my advice to every tough minded youth
1) Discipline: To finish well, discipline is the first step you must take on your pathway to an excellent grade. Life is not a game for the frivolous and mediocres. Such people do not get the good side of life. Life favours those who are disciplined and have a positive approach to it. As a student with the goal of graduating with excellent results, you must understand the role of discipline in your pursuit. You must understand that to get something good, there’s alot of things to forego. No one ascends the ladder of success just anyhow. To be disciplined means to have a good plan for yourself and to follow it. Many people have good laid down plans for themselves but have a zero execution policy.

There are lots of side attractions that you must let go off. A lot of things will come up but your approach to them is what matters. You will be faced with lots of fun, parties and lots more. Will you attend all of them? Folks from the opposite gender will always want your time. Will you always make such time available for them? Places will come begging for your visit. Will you visit all of them? These are decisions that you must intentionally make if success is the anticipated end point.
Therefore be disciplined on your ladder to the top. A little frivolity will have you crash landing.

2) Actionable Reading Timetable: Another point that is worthy of note is the fact that to be successful in the end, you must read. Yes you must read. Someone said, “Reading people are always knowing people”. Do you want to be knowledgeable? Then you must read. As a student, reading randomly is not advised. Thus, ensure you have an actionable and easy-to-follow reading timetable. It’s not about setting up a reading timetable that you cannot follow. It’s still not about setting up a reading timetable that you will only adhere to for just a month. In the end, you abandon it. Rather, success will entail that you follow a well organised reading timetable
A well organised reading timetable will help you understand how better to read. It will help you cover all your courses or subjects every week. A reading timetable will help you to have an organised reading schedule that involves all your subjects

The truth is that not all subjects requires the same level of attention and effort. There are some that demands more effort and input for success to be achieved in the end. There are some that require just little effort and success will be achieved in the end. This then means that the same level of input is not what is needed for them all. A well and properly organised reading timetable will help you with this

3) Punctuality to Lectures: Punctuality they say is the soul of business. As a student determined to graduate with excellent grades in school, lectures should be of top importance to you. If there is anything to joke with, it should not be your lectures. It is lectures that brought you to school so you must ensure that you pay undivided attention to it. Here, I am not only talking about attending lectures, I mean going early for your lectures. There’s a secret in going early for lectures. It will help you flow from the beginning to the end. With that you know the questions worth asking and the ones that are not.
If you do not go early to lectures, you tend to miss alot of vital information which were shared before your arrival. This may make you ask some unmeaningful questions which will end up drawing the class backwards
Even, some lecturers may even answer you in a very unpleasant manner. Therefore ensure you are as early as possible to all lectures. Make sure the lecturer doesn’t come to class before you. Also if you are in the class when a lecture is going on, you will easily understand the topic next time you are reading it. But if you don’t attend the classes, you will have difficulties in understanding the topic. Once again, treat every lecture as indespensibly important

4) Teach others what you know: No one is an island of knowledge and no matter how little you know, you can as well teach it to someone. One of my teachers in school years back said that the reason why he was good in his own course was because he has taught it over time. Do you that the more you teach people what you know, the more you know it more. As a student, in your own little corner, ensure you do not hoard the little knowledge you have. Even there are some things you may think that you know but in actual sense, you do not know them. It is only when you share your knowledge with someone that you can be corrected. Therefore be ready to teach people the little that you know at all times

5) Familiarity with lecturers: Ensure you register your identity and personality with your lecturers. This will go a long way in helping you in subsequent matters that may arise. For example, if your lecturer knows you as someone who is very intelligent and then you failed his course at the end of the semester, he will have to review your answer script
Also, when a lecturer likes you, he/she can go any length in defending your interest before other lecturers. For example, in the case whereby you fail another lecturer’s course, a lecturer who knows you quite well may go as far as following up on the course with the other lecturer to ensure that something good comes out for your favour.

6) Never stop learning: Learning they say never ends and as such, you must ensure that in your own life, learning never ends. There’s no time in which a person will have adequate knowledge that will be enough for him all the days of his life. Even in that your chosen career, ensure you are always given to learning. Never think that you have learnt alot or enough that will see you through

7) Eschew Pride: The Holy book says that pride goes before a fall. In your pursuit for success, you must ensure that you Eschew pride and cloth yourself with humility. Be humble at all times as much as possible. Never feel too big to do anything or meet anyone. There are times when you need to meet a much younger person for knowledge, do not hesitate to do so. Pride will make you think you know enough and as such no need for more knowledge

Shun Examination Malpractice: Today, our education system keeps rolling out trained illiterates who successfully wasted their stay in the higher institution. Examination malpractice has watered down our education system such that students even at the point of graduation has no value to create or add. If you must be successful in life, shun examination malpractice. Many people carry certificates they cannot defend just to claim that they are graduates. Many second class upper students cannot even define their course even after graduation. Yes they have the certificate but nothing good to it. Let your certificate be a product of your hard work. By so doing, you will more easily defend it to the last.

9) The God Factor: This should have been the very first point but I reserved it to this point so that I can use it to conclude this article. In whatsoever you do in life, never forget that God is key and should be given the right place at all times. Place Him as the number one of your life and your life will make a meaning.
To this point, here are few things you can do in order to have an excellent grade after school. Follow this part and your testimonial will be a strong source of motivation and encouragement to people. Perhaps I did not remember to add any, use the comment box to tell us what you feel we ignored
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