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How do top students manage passing?
1. Behavioral/Study Habits Focus
What specific daily habits do top students maintain to consistently succeed academically?
How do top-performing students structure their study schedules compared to average students?
What role does self-discipline play in the academic success of high achievers?
2. Psychological and Motivational Angle
How do top students stay motivated and avoid burnout during stressful periods like exams?
What mindset or mental strategies do high achievers use to stay focused and overcome challenges?
3. Environmental/Social Factors
How do factors like peer influence, mentorship, or support systems contribute to a student’s academic performance?
Do top students typically come from certain types of learning environments? If so, what are the key characteristics?
4. Learning Techniques and Resources
What learning strategies (e.g. spaced repetition, active recall) are most commonly used by top students?
How do high-achieving students use digital tools or academic resources more effectively than others?
5. Comparative Insight
What distinguishes the approach of top students from those who struggle academically, even with equal effort?
How do top students adjust their methods based on subject difficulty or learning style differences?
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Chantel’s Answer
Hi Manuel,
Great questions! Firstly, success in college has a lot to do with your mindset and understanding your "why". I was raised in a household that drilled the idea that the way to achieve true success is by applying myself and being open to learning. Therefore, attending college and staying focused on my studies came easy.
Secondly, it is imperative to find a study strategy that works early in your educational journey. During high school, I realized that my study strategy included rewriting notes and making my own flashcards. Finding your study strategy may be challenging as it is a trial and error process. However, once you are able to find the best strategies, you will notice the difference in your retention.
Lastly, time management is essential in your educational journey. Start by writing down your daily/weekly tasks and then you will be able to properly allocate your free time. For my most recent certification, I printed monthly calendars and would add the various chapters that I wanted to complete each day. Thankfully, it worked for me and I passed all my exams. Wishing you all the best!
Great questions! Firstly, success in college has a lot to do with your mindset and understanding your "why". I was raised in a household that drilled the idea that the way to achieve true success is by applying myself and being open to learning. Therefore, attending college and staying focused on my studies came easy.
Secondly, it is imperative to find a study strategy that works early in your educational journey. During high school, I realized that my study strategy included rewriting notes and making my own flashcards. Finding your study strategy may be challenging as it is a trial and error process. However, once you are able to find the best strategies, you will notice the difference in your retention.
Lastly, time management is essential in your educational journey. Start by writing down your daily/weekly tasks and then you will be able to properly allocate your free time. For my most recent certification, I printed monthly calendars and would add the various chapters that I wanted to complete each day. Thankfully, it worked for me and I passed all my exams. Wishing you all the best!
Thanks, can't wait to put this advice into action!
MANUEL
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Shreya’s Answer
Focus on your own journey and growth rather than comparing yourself to others.
Be open to new experiences and people—college is a time for personal and professional development.
Don’t overthink methods; instead, stay curious, ask questions, and adapt as you go.
Remember, there’s no guaranteed path—success is defined by your own goals and efforts.
Be open to new experiences and people—college is a time for personal and professional development.
Don’t overthink methods; instead, stay curious, ask questions, and adapt as you go.
Remember, there’s no guaranteed path—success is defined by your own goals and efforts.
Thank you for giving me advice.
MANUEL
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Michelle’s Answer
Hello, Manuel !
Allow me to re-direct the slant on your questions because these questions would require generalizations and you'd be better off if you asked people what their experience was/is as a college student. All levels of students should offer answers to your questions, not just "top" students whatever that means. One person cannot answer for a group of students and college life is individual, not a group where everyone does the same exact thing. So I think you'd get good feedback if you'd ask for individual perspectives on these questions that people can draw upon what they know as pertinent to their own experience. College life is learned about by experiencing it. Stories can be insightful, interesting but your experience will be completely different.
Study and behavioral habits are things one really doesn't actually think about because they are part of natural daily life. I think what I did was that I had good study habits in high school, so it carried over to college and than progressed, keeping up with the pace that college was. No matter what "habits" or "behavior" a person has, it's more important to understand what you study. This is so individualized that it can't be answered in general. And college life is filled with sprinkles of no success and great achievements no matter how "smart" a person is. No one can tell you how to "Pass" or "Fail". It has to be experienced.
There are really no answers to what makes a difference between low achievers and high achievers. There are various majors, subjects and not every course goes smoothly. It totally depends upon the individual person and cannot be predicted or generalized. Students are in control of their own unique path in college.
Psychologically, my passion for school got me through the smooth times and the rough times. Back in my day, we did not overthink, dwell on or micro-analyze going to college. It was just something we planned to do, sort of a stepping stone in life and we didn't worry about it or try to guess our future. We didn't have classes in high school that made you pick a career even if you weren't sure about what career you wanted. Planning for college and a career seemed to be a simple and automatic thing that didn't warrant much talk or thought, rather action.
My experience in college with peers was wonderful and provided much personal and professional growth. Instead of high school peer pressure of the cool kids and the weird kids, everyone in college was so accepting and you start to meet a variety of types of students - older, disabled, foreign students, etc. For me it seemed as though everyone meshed wonderfully and we helped one another and gave support to each other. At the college I attended, everyone was super accepting and there were a huge amount of people from diverse backgrounds and abilities. I may add: there were absolutely no influencers - everyone had a mind of their own and didn't need "influencing". That's just the way it was. I went to college before the use of internet as you can tell.
There is no user manual for being a student that gets a high GPA or a low GPA. There is no guarantee that environment is a factor in which students do well and which ones don't. I also think you have to realize, some students can do perfect one semester, bad the next semester and than proceed to achieve, fail or quit school. You can't generalize this.
When I was in college, my learning technique was not even thought about. I read the textbook, took copious notes and if I didn't understand something asked questions. It's really not important to know how other people learn, what is important is that the student use their own abilities to learn and understand the subjects.
For comparative insight, realize that it's not so much how a student "approaches" college, rather their own individual capacity to learn, their mindset/outlook on life and their purpose for going to college. Some students feel that they MUST go to college and some never liked school and some always loved school. If you're not in college for the right reason, it will be a struggle. That I can say in general is usually how it is.
I am not so sure that a student really has a "method" that they "adjust" based on a course they take. If the student knows how to follow directions, comprehends the assignments, it is expected that the content of each course is going to be different and contain different requirements. When I was in college, the process was cause and effect at the time it happened and was never analyzed as it seems to be today.
If this was an assignment for high school, I hope that you can appreciate my perspective, one that believes that you just can't label or generalize what it's like to be in college and there's no way to guarantee success or failure. It's very different for every student.
Allow me to re-direct the slant on your questions because these questions would require generalizations and you'd be better off if you asked people what their experience was/is as a college student. All levels of students should offer answers to your questions, not just "top" students whatever that means. One person cannot answer for a group of students and college life is individual, not a group where everyone does the same exact thing. So I think you'd get good feedback if you'd ask for individual perspectives on these questions that people can draw upon what they know as pertinent to their own experience. College life is learned about by experiencing it. Stories can be insightful, interesting but your experience will be completely different.
Study and behavioral habits are things one really doesn't actually think about because they are part of natural daily life. I think what I did was that I had good study habits in high school, so it carried over to college and than progressed, keeping up with the pace that college was. No matter what "habits" or "behavior" a person has, it's more important to understand what you study. This is so individualized that it can't be answered in general. And college life is filled with sprinkles of no success and great achievements no matter how "smart" a person is. No one can tell you how to "Pass" or "Fail". It has to be experienced.
There are really no answers to what makes a difference between low achievers and high achievers. There are various majors, subjects and not every course goes smoothly. It totally depends upon the individual person and cannot be predicted or generalized. Students are in control of their own unique path in college.
Psychologically, my passion for school got me through the smooth times and the rough times. Back in my day, we did not overthink, dwell on or micro-analyze going to college. It was just something we planned to do, sort of a stepping stone in life and we didn't worry about it or try to guess our future. We didn't have classes in high school that made you pick a career even if you weren't sure about what career you wanted. Planning for college and a career seemed to be a simple and automatic thing that didn't warrant much talk or thought, rather action.
My experience in college with peers was wonderful and provided much personal and professional growth. Instead of high school peer pressure of the cool kids and the weird kids, everyone in college was so accepting and you start to meet a variety of types of students - older, disabled, foreign students, etc. For me it seemed as though everyone meshed wonderfully and we helped one another and gave support to each other. At the college I attended, everyone was super accepting and there were a huge amount of people from diverse backgrounds and abilities. I may add: there were absolutely no influencers - everyone had a mind of their own and didn't need "influencing". That's just the way it was. I went to college before the use of internet as you can tell.
There is no user manual for being a student that gets a high GPA or a low GPA. There is no guarantee that environment is a factor in which students do well and which ones don't. I also think you have to realize, some students can do perfect one semester, bad the next semester and than proceed to achieve, fail or quit school. You can't generalize this.
When I was in college, my learning technique was not even thought about. I read the textbook, took copious notes and if I didn't understand something asked questions. It's really not important to know how other people learn, what is important is that the student use their own abilities to learn and understand the subjects.
For comparative insight, realize that it's not so much how a student "approaches" college, rather their own individual capacity to learn, their mindset/outlook on life and their purpose for going to college. Some students feel that they MUST go to college and some never liked school and some always loved school. If you're not in college for the right reason, it will be a struggle. That I can say in general is usually how it is.
I am not so sure that a student really has a "method" that they "adjust" based on a course they take. If the student knows how to follow directions, comprehends the assignments, it is expected that the content of each course is going to be different and contain different requirements. When I was in college, the process was cause and effect at the time it happened and was never analyzed as it seems to be today.
If this was an assignment for high school, I hope that you can appreciate my perspective, one that believes that you just can't label or generalize what it's like to be in college and there's no way to guarantee success or failure. It's very different for every student.