How I learn and get a high GPA?
I am sure everybody will have their own ways to achieve good result, for me, I also
have some methods to achieve high GPA. Those so called “methods” are in fact my
experience learned throughout my previous studying process, here are my points.
First, I think it is very important for me to have a target, that is I must always remind
myself what I am working for, what I want to obtain finally. In the long term, of
course I want to have a stable live. I want to have a stable career, satisfactory payment,
so I can maintain a certain standard of living and also I can bring a better living
standard to my family.
In the short term, I really hope to graduate with second up honor so I can have a
chance to get a master degree. In fact, to study master is my dream since I was a
primary student, I really love studying and learning, and I think I would greatly prefer
to study rather than to work so early. In fact, I always remind myself that there is only
a few steps before I can complete my dream to study master, so I must try my very
best to go a few steps further to achieve it.
Of course different people have different hopes and interests, as long as those hopes
are realistic and reachable, I think everyone should always remind themselves what
their targets are, and never give up until they reach their target. There is one semester
to go before I have a great chance to study master, so I will always remind myself
what my dream is and I promise I will work very hard in the remaining semester to
achieve it.
Secondly, I think to interact with the classmates and the professor is very important.
Whenever I have problems about the taught materials that I can’t solve them, I seek
help from the professor immediately. In fact, I think most of the professor in CityU
are keen and helpful to students’ problems, of course I seek help from them only when
they are free. Once I found a problem really difficult to solve and finally with the help
of the professor I solve them, my memory and impact of those problems will be very
tough, I can memorize the solutions for a long time. This is the biggest benefit to
discuss the problems with the professor. I really appreciate the help from the tutors
and professors, they really help me a lot especially during the examination study
period.
Besides, it is very useful to enhance my knowledge if I interact with the classmates.
We can discuss the taught materials, we express our opinions, we may discuss the
difficult problems, we may do revision together, etc. This is a very effective learning
process. Similar to discuss with the professor, discussing with the classmates can also
strengthen my memory greatly. Also I should feel no hesitation to help my classmates
once they seek my help, it is because in order to explain clearly the problems to them,
I must first of all understand those problems very well, so when I help the classmates,
it just like I am doing the revision myself, and I am also explaining the problems to
myself, I can really learn a lot through helping others. Of course I also feel happy to
help other classmates to solve their problems.
The third point a got is don’t give up even I face difficulties. Sometimes even if I
already put effort on the revision, I may not get satisfactory results. Things often
happen like that. Through those kind of failure, I guess I have learned something. One
of the most important thing in life is how do I face the short term failure. For example,
I might already revise a lot for the mid term, but I still can’t get the score that I
expected, I felt very down and depressed. However, I tried to comfort myself.
Sometimes I did not perform as well as I expect, it may because I have made some
careless mistake, if I can be more careful, I can do better. Don’t just see how many
score I have lost , I should also consider how many I obtained!
Besides, not doing good in a certain test or exam don’t really tell that I am poor, I am
failure, but it may be an indication telling me that in what ways I can further improve.
A certain test and a certain exam is not complete to reflect my true ability, a failure in
a certain test or exam can stimulate me to work harder next time, it just like a kind of
motivation, I have fallen down, but I learn from it so I become stronger to face the
coming exam. The most important thing is what I have learnt from my failure.
I believe no pain, no gain. Everybody in the world faces failure many times in their
life, the winners are the one who stand up again and face the future bravely, the losers
are those who just lie on the floor and just keep blaming. I want to study master and I
want to be the winner in my own life, so I promise myself no matter how big the
failure I come across, I just learn from it and to stand up again. Don’t give up and
keep insisting until the last moment, and success will come soon.
I should not make comparison with the other classmates. My biggest enemy in the
world is me. I should not compare my own results with the others. Of course it is
reasonable to take the average performance of my classmates as a reference of a basic
standard, but it is just one kind of indicator, the one I should ‘defeat’ is not the
brightest student in class, but myself.
I think it is more important to make improvement compare with what I got in last
semester than to know what my rank is in class. As everyone in the world have their
own strength and weakness. I may do worse in this subject but I am also stronger in
other subject. So compare with other classmates is of little meaning, but what I should
do is to make improvement myself. So I always hope to get a higher GPA compare
with what I got in last semester. From the first semester to the last semester, I feel
happy that my GPA keep improving, I hope my GPA can be improved further in the
remaining semester.
The last thing I want to say is it’s good for me to feel pressure, as I work harder under
pressure, pressure is a major kind of motivation. Also I know I am not on my own, my
professor, my family, my classmates and my friends they are all by my sides to
support me, so I am not just work for myself but also work for them. Getting the best
GPA, for me doesn’t mean getting the highest possible GPA 4.3, instead, it means the
highest GPA I am able to get if I tried my very best!