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Hahahah...good old days! I remembered it like it was yesterday.

Brb...

I have no doubt that Nairalanders are all gurus.

Well, when I wrote mine, I scored 2A's, 5B's and 2C's. But I thank God for the grades cos where I schooled was nothing to write home about.

slap1:
Which the child can't possibly get in a boarding school.

Listen bruv, the bible said "train up a child in the way he should go so that when he grow up he will never depart from it "

It's true that one can never rule out the effects of peer pressure on human being but whenever you instigate a child with the fear of God right from the outset, he/she will definitely grow up to frown upon those kind of anomalous attitudes whether he's in conventional, seminary, boarding or day school.

slap1:
I hate boarding school! Why not keep your kids close and train them your own way?

I advise you send him to a soldier for some flogging, with a promise of better flogging next time.

His kleptomaniac act has nothing to do with 'boarding school' what her child needs is a good parental upbringing.

Aha!...Op you literally hit the point. That's exactly what many people(guys) fail to understand when it comes to relationship matters.

The ideology that many guys have is that badging into a relationship is synonymous with taking up the burden/lifting of the lady to their stead which is generally wrong.

As a hustling dude, aside giving a lady my time to show her the love and care I have for her , I don't believe in the general consensus that their financial services solely and exclusively belongs to me.

I always make this know to them from the outset to avoid blame game when the relationship officially kicks off.

Let's hear from you.

HOW TO GET GOOD GRADES IN UNIVERSITY.
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If you are in university, this is probably right around the time you feel like hell, with exams, papers and a million readings that you put off, even though you swore this was the year you would keep up. Don’t fear, you are not alone.
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My younger sister came home for the weekend, in a rather perplexed about her current university experience. She is travelling through her first year and, like some foreign visitors, was marred by an experience of unexpected surprises. Rather than brave the university world alone, she got smart and decided not to re-invent the wheel; instead, she opted to talk to her older siblings. It was a rather rousing debate – there are four of us, all at different universities and programs, and it seemed post-worthy for any university student who needs a little guidance to the elixir of good grades. I’ll confess – none of us are geniuses – but I maintain that because we each have averages above 3.5/4.0 GPA, we feel qualified to give a few tips on improving.
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This post is a tough-love post: it is for those students who have been cruising through university, and have suddenly realized their grades are not high enough – whether it is for professional school or grad school, for graduation, for your parents, or just for yourself. One thing my sister mentioned is that university students (including herself) feel lost in their student experience, and that a little tough love from some older siblings might have helped. So we’ve decided to play “older sibling” to all of our readers and dish it out, cold (ice-cream!) style.
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1. Stop Skipping Class: I make it a rule never to skip class unless it is an emergency. Sometimes, you have a big midterm or paper due, and you’ve fallen behind and every minute counts – and then it is an emergency. But skipping because you feel too lazy to walk to class, or because your relaxing day was so wonderful that you can’t seem to muster enough brains to attend, or because the commute is just too damn long – those are not excuses that will increase your grades. It isn’t rocket science: class is important; and your perception that missing a class or two is not a big deal is just plain stupid.
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2.Adjust your Attitude: Can I confess something to you? The majority of university students go through university with the perception that fun and freedom are as equal in the “university” experience as studying. I believe the collective sibling response to my sister’s comment about this was ” Get your head out of your ass, Leah!” (Haha, sorry – it is a family catchphrase!). But in essence – that’s basically it: if you intend to get good grades, or to improve the ones you have, get your head out of you ass and realize that study and fun are not a 50-50 concept. Sorry to disappoint you!
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3.Never Hand Something In Late: It is one of the biggest mistakes students can make – you lose marks for absolutely no reason other than you can’t afford a calendar to mark a correct due date.
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Get an agenda! And at the beginning of the term, write in all of your important due dates. When you see a week where there four papers due, you don’t go out clubbing the night before you paper is due and decide to miss class the next day to hand in your paper late. Even if that is an incredibly stupid example (I know people who have done it!), there are still other common mistakes students make. For example: It is not enough to start working on four papers the week before week they are due. Part of having an agenda is that it allows you to look ahead into the future (yup, it’s a crystal ball) to due dates weeks in advance. When you see four papers coming up, or a very heavy week, start a few weeks early so you aren’t swamped with work the week or night before.
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4.Get the Readings Done on Time: this one is an obvious one – despite the fact that doing readings in advance will assist you in class and make life easier, when it comes to exam crunch time, you won’t be cursing yourself for leaving it all to the last minute.
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5. Talk to the T.A.s: If I could give a person one piece of advice to succeed in university, it would be to talk in advance to the person who marks your work. It is so important – its like guessing what kind of present someone wants as opposed to just asking them!
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Always schedule an appointment with your T.A., come prepared with some ideas/questions, and you will find them to be a resource of great help. Consider your meeting with your T.A. a permanent appointment rather than something you can cancel, otherwise it will be easy to change your mind because you couldn’t come up with anything to discuss. The purpose of the appointment is to force you to think about the paper in advance.
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6. Consider a Study Group: Although planning/putting a study group together can be work, they can be incredibly beneficial. Working with like-minded, hard working people can help you connect with the readings and lectures better, and can ensure you don’t miss any concepts – or better, learn a new way to approach the concepts – so that everything is clear at the end. If you know someone who can help you in a study group, really use that time effectively: students often comment that they retain more from the study group than memorizing on their own, and that when it comes to discussion/essay questions (rather than multiple choice or short answer), the study group helps to better critically analyze ideas.
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7. Use your Weekends More Effectively[/b]Students often let their weekends dwindle away – particularly a day off like Friday or Monday. Your weekend should always be a catch-up time rather than a party time. While you may have commitments you can’t avoid, remember that if your fun time adds up to more than 15% of your weekend time, then you can mentally decrease your paper or exam mark by 25%. I know it sounds harsh (you would think I would say 40% fun time is too much), but it isn’t. Unless you are a genius – or even naturally smart and school comes easily for you, expect to work hard if you want 80+ in all your courses. In a three-day weekend (with Friday or Monday off), I would say an evening off would be fine, but any more than that, and I think it becomes easy to let the whole weekend slip away.
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8.[b] Stop Fooling Around: We thought we ought to hammer it home a little more than tip two of getting an attitude facelift:
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[bSTOP FOOLING AROUND!!![/b]

These are NOT the best years of your life, so please, celebrating these years like the next 50 will be a disaster. University is prepping you for life – and doing poorly in school, or being on academic probation/dropping out isn’t going to help. If you want to be treated like a grown-up, you have to act like one. It is hard for people to take you seriously when you spend a lot of time fooling around. When you have a busy week ahead, do not waste your time going on dates or lounging about – put a clamp on your libido, and recognize that your brain should always take precedence over your nether-regions. In the end, a little sacrificed fun time can make up big during crunch-time.
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8. Hang Out with the Right Crowd and Learn From Others: Ask yourself – how many of my friends are partying it up, and how many are working hard? Am I surrounding myself with people I want to be like, or people I have a good time with but who don’t motivate me to study?
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It is so fabulous to have friends from all walks of life and I encourage that highly; but when you are in school, you need to be around people who are working hard. It rubs off on you a little easier, and you can learn from others. If you have a friend who seems to be doing well in school, ask them for some tips, and emulate their example. Think of it this way: Studying can be a bit like dieting – it is a little hard to commit to initially, but having a buddy makes it 100 times easier. If you really want to change your ways, it is about making a commitment, and being around others who make it easier, rather than harder, to keep that commitment.
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9. Remember it is never too late: Somehow, when people get close to graduating, they kind of give up in frustration. Never give up: learning proper study skills will not only help you this year – still 25% of your university career left! – but it will provide you with skills for graduate school, and life.
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Well, that’s some tough love from Surviving Studenthood (it comes from a good place!). We welcome all your other suggestions on helping people do better in school!
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Cheers!

Cc: bobugeedav@gmail.com.

seangy4konji:
It no deh gree me ohh as i like to deh watch funny videos,accidents,gores, and all other videos on youtube and all...or else man go get bored na..i dont watch tv unless its football time.

seangy4konji:
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i only pay 8K for 24GB of Data for a month...5k FOR 12gb...

Glo with PRIDE.

Abeg which kain thing i wan watch weh i no fit watch?

8k for subscription alone? Hahaha bros you be Internet glutton?

The glo line works for me perfectly. I like the network ;very cheap with fast Internet accessibility.

Moreover, you can stream your YouTube with the 3Gbyte without complaint. It's just awesome.

ZUBY77:
Auditorium of lies and deception.

Do you have anything against the christians? I suppose if you don't like Christianity then stick to whatever you believe instead of spewing bad against the religion.

The other day I was watching Sheyilaw in one of the shows he delivered in 2007. I couldn't believe that the person I was seeing was Sheyilaw...


Mehn money is good no matter how you put it. Imagine Basket Mouth who's belt is always hanging loose on his waist is now buckling his belt to the last hole?


Money good joor...

This is a welcome development, I 'd appreciate it if the federal government approves it.

#team GENDER EQUALITY!

Orikinla:
A similar case I had to address with wisdom was a 15 year old girl claiming that she was in love with me and threatened to kill herself if I rejected her and she only saw me once.
She was calling me about 30-50 times a day with messages of love texts and her ring tones were the latest hip songs from KCee to Harrysong to Davido to Whizkid and others. I reported to the police, Red Cross, Critical Rescue and others, but none of them responded to rescue her. She was just an impressionable and vulnerable school girl whose parents have failed in good parenting. And they were comfortable from my investigations. Sometimes she even sent me recharge cards to call her back. For two years I had to use my counseling skills to get her out of her depression and succeeded. Very brilliant girl and champion athlete and beautiful. Thank God she did not run to the wrong boy or man who would taken advantage of her and ruin her life. Today she is already preparing for her UME and still professing her love. It is just obsession caused by depression.
I blame all these psychedelic Nigerian hip hop songs and pornographic music videos.
I once told a DJ to stop playing such dirty songs at the birthday party of a primary school boy and his sister in SSS 3 stopped talking to me for not joining their party and the parents supported her and the DJ and they are members of the same church with me, the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
Nigerian parents have failed in parenting.
The mother of a popular female celebrity blogger once asked her for N10, 000 (ten thousand naira) when she was still a second year student at UNILAG. A mother that should have provided for her teenage daughter was asking her for N10, 000, knowingly pushing into prostitution.
I have seen Nigerian mothers deliberately using their pretty teenage daughters to attract male customers to their restaurants and shops. One was pushing her daughter to me to collect money. Left to her, I should be forking her daughter and be giving her money for doing so. I refused and they stopped talkig to me. And their fathers will be smirking nearby hailing you "Nwokeoma!" meaning fine man.
One father was calling me "lion" whenever he saw me with a babe years ago. Another father asked his daughter if I was impotent when she told him that we were not having sex.

You are right sir, I can bear you witness on the area where you mentioned some mothers using their daughter to attract male customers to their shop.

It's sth that we see every day most especially those people that runs restaurants business. The truth remains that if we actually mean to end this menace, it has to start from our parents. Once the children get obsessed with vulnerable lifestyle, it's always hard before you normalise them again

A good parental upbringing is what the children need to escape the wrath of vulnerability.

Damn!

What a disappointment.

#piques!

This's disgusting! What could be the cause of this ailment cos I haven't seen this type all my life?

Wonders shall never seized! Uwa emebigo

And this morning, a particular news item got
me thinking & that is the discrepancy in the
UTME cut off marks for University & that of
Polytechnic/College of Education.

Overtime, we've continued to complain
about the falling standard of education in
Nigeria which have become a norm. But
amidst all the wailing, there is practically no
effort to halt the fall & urgently reverse the
trend.

What is the rational for the UTME University
& Polytechnic/ College discrepancy in
admission criteria? The score for post UTME
into universities is pegged at 180 as against
150 for Polytechnic/ College of Education.
What this portrays is that those rejected by
our universities will end up likely in College
of Education to become our teachers
tomorrow. Yet,we pray and hope for an
improved standard of education.

Not so many persons go to College of
Education because they have passion to be
teachers anymore. The days of having the
passion to become a teacher is far gone.
They mostly so now because they fall short
of Polytechnic and University entry point
score. So,it's usually more like dumping
those who had below average performance
into the colleges of education. Yet,this is
supposed to be the formative institutions
where teachers are moulded, thanks to the
upgrade of some to degree awarding
institutions.


Again, what is the justification for the HND/
Bsc dichotomy in the civil service? We keep
on dumping everyone into our universities
with no consideration of its future
implications. One thing is very obvious: The
future is not looking bright for our
educational sector. This is one area
Nigerians can't afford to ignore,else we will
continue to work out our dear souls and
body to be able to send our kids abroad
where they can get qaulity education.

If you have to interact with majority of the
teachers in our primary/ secondary schools
especially the ones in the private sector, you
will know the future is really bleak. Kill
education and you would have succeeded in
killing a country.

KayCee Omeke

Hmmmm. . . There's nothing that my eyes won't see!!

#transgendered...

I prefer Operamini browser to Uc browser.

NOUN...I still have prospect that I'll enrolled into any open University to continue my education. I see no reason why people should be speaking bad against the open Universities.

I have a friend who passed out from the school and now he working in a well reputable office. It doesn't matter the school where you grad; be it circular/conventional University or Distant Learning school.

What matters is what you have upstairs not where you school. Besides, your amamata doesn't guarantee job.

Another Buhari in disguise.

miriamgroove:
oooooook.... my opinion.. I think the man should learn how to cook.. that's not enough reason for divorce..


wow... for the first time fp ...
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"That's not enough reason for Divorce?" Smh for Nigerian ladies. This is the height of stupidity. What's the primary duty of a wife then?

There's a saying that "when you can't beat them, you join them"

However, I think this isn't time for blame game or being tribalistic. There are somethings we can't change. What Buhari needs now is your total support( no matter how privy it appears to be).

Blaming or acusing him has nothing to change in his democratic dispensation else you squeal from January to December. The earlier we learnt to support our Govt in the fight against corruption, terrorism and its ilks the better we stand to change and transform Nigeria.

You made a lot of sense comrade. Things has totally changed. Many pastors see the work of God as business now. That's the major reason why things are increasingly getting spoilt in the christiandom.

I could remember those days when pastors preach against ladies wearing trousers (male apparels),and people were leaving within the ethics and moral principles that those pastors inculcate into the brethrens. but the reverse has now become the case;in the life of an average Nigerian lady , they considered as it as nothing.

The worst part of it is that the congregation easily buys into their ideology. See every reason reason to believe them.