Gateway to a GPA

In this episode of the Ready For Life podcast, the host, Ash Keer, gives tips on how to increase your GPA. The tips include completing homework, asking teachers for clarification, using a study method with timers, joining a study group, maintaining a healthy mindset, and planning ahead for assignments. These tips can be applied to any level of schooling and even other aspects of life. The next episode will discuss the effects of social media. Hey everyone, welcome back to the, to the Ready For Life podcast, I'm your host, Ash Keer, and this episode is called Gateway to a GPA, and this, this is about, this episode is about how to increase your GPA, and we have a total of five to six tips to give you to increase your GPA over time, and it should work for any student in school, whether it's elementary, middle, high school, college, techniques that I list in this video may be used in any aspect of life, work, and, you know, socializing, anything. So, so I was on Instagram and I got a DM from, from a viewer of a podcast, and he asked me that, he asked me to teach him how to get your GPA up. I talked about grades and stuff briefly in the past episodes, make sure you go watch that, but I talked about them and he said my GPA is kind of, it's kind of on the low side, trying to get it up to the high side so I can, you know, so I can get better scholarships to college, and I was like, okay, that's good. So I gave him these six tips to learn to increase his GPA. Number one, very pretty, it's only like brief and easy, anybody can do it. It's just to submit your little homeworks or whatever, in our school they call it formatives. The little homeworks really add up, you know, even though it's 20%, 20% goes a long way with your grade. So my first tip would be just to complete a lot of formatives and to stay on top of the formatives. Number two, which is still a little bit easy, is ask the teacher and clarify on assignments. So sometimes, you know, you, you don't really know the assignment really well, and you're kind of confused. Like me, even though like the teacher lists out the assignment, sometimes I'm kind of confused on like, how do I do this? Or how do I do that? So I will go and do that and ask my teacher. And then I'll go do my work, and then make sure I did whatever my teacher advised me to do, so that I can get a good grade on that assignment. Which it's a very, it's a very useful tool. The teachers are really helpful when they, when you ask questions, and they're more likely to help you out later, because they understand that you're like, they're like a student that wants to learn and do stuff. Number three is, number three is, is not really a tip, more like a method. This method is a study method, like for college students, for high school, middle school, elementary, five-year-olds can use it, if they're smart enough. This tool is, is basically you grab a timer or a phone, and you set up the timer for 30-35 minutes. And those 30-35 minutes, you don't distract yourself with anything other than the work. You just do the work until the timer goes off. When the timer turns, when the timer goes off, set a five-minute timer, and rest. And don't go on your phone, of course, just, you know, go walk around your house, or go, go get some fresh air outside. And once the five-minute timer is done, come back, work 30 minutes again. Once the 30-minute goes off again, go walk around your house five times. And if you repeat that set three times, you're more likely to be done with your homework than when you just, you know, did it on your own time, which is, you know. So that would be number three. Number four would be, yeah, number four would be to get in a study group. So a study group is basically, it doesn't have to be like a professional group. It could just be a, you know, it'd just be a group of friends that you go to high school or you go to college with, you know, get in a group, and you guys all study. It's very efficient, because instead of one person, you know, working on his work, it's five people working on everybody else's work. So it's much more efficient, and everybody understands more when that goes on. Number five, I would say is, is to be in the right mindset, mind state. So, you know, get a lot of sleep, you know, eat a lot of good food, and, you know, exercise, because if your body's not healthy, you know, your brain's not gonna be healthy, of course. So I advise people to get a lot of sleep and eat a lot of, like, in the morning, like, eat some, like, eggs or something. So you, your brain's functioning, because your brain is also technically a muscle. And when you starve it and you deprive it of sleep, what happens is, like, your brain doesn't really work as efficient as it would when you take care of it. So that's, that's number five. Number six, number six is to plan out what your homework is. So instead of just waiting for the teacher to give you assignments, if you're able to, you should try to look through, like, assignments that will be showing up in the future, maybe like a week or two weeks or three weeks from then, try to complete those. So that way, if you miss a day, or you get behind a day, you're not too far behind, because you did those assignments, which it's a very, it's very difficult. However, it's very useful once you master it. Like, for example, let's say I have a, say I have the final due on the 30th of May, and today's May 1st, I would go and, like, try to do some of the final. That way, if I miss any day from May 1st to May 30th, I'm not behind. So these are, that's number six. So thank you so much for tuning into the Ready for Life podcast. I was your host, Ash Kee. Tune in next time on, on the effects of social media, as we talk about how, what social media is good and bad for, and if social media is worth it in this day and age.