Lesson 2(Best students A+
Topic: Why You Are Not Yet the Best Student in Your Class
For Jambites and Undergraduates, we trust that you have a higher level of
understanding.
Please, even though this training is customised for secondary school students, note that the principles for school success is the same everywhere.
You just need to follow through.
So all you need to do is replace Lecturer for teacher, lecture hall for classroom, semester for term, WAEC for degree exams, course outline for scheme of work, etc.
WHY STUDENTS FAIL EXAMS
The rate of mass failure of students at WAEC and NECO final exams in recent times has been very terrible.
For instance, in WAEC final exams today in Nigeria, only 3 candidates out of every 10 will obtain up to 5 credits to include English Language and Maths in one sitting.
Many factors in the society have been said to be responsible for this mass failure—poor learning environment, inadequate teaching facilities, unqualified or uncommitted teachers, poor teachers' welfare, high student-teacher ratio or high number of students in class, parental negligence and so on.
Yes, that's very true. But the major factor is that students now have a nonchalant attitude to their studies these days!
We all agree.
Society may not get better overnight, but you will be writing an exam soon.
Will you pass excellently?
Or, will you fail woefully and blame society?
As a student, you may not be able to change society, but you can refuse to be a failure and also decide to pass excellently, you know.
Even if society gets better and you don't take their studies seriously, you are still not going to perform well in exams, let alone becoming the best in the class or school.
I have had a fair share of society, too.
I wasn’t so lucky like most of you today to attend a tush school. I went to a public school. A very public school. Lol.
See, I didn't enjoy a well-stocked library or a well-equipped laboratory in the school I attended.
In fact, throughout second term in JSS 2, I sat on the floor.
Sometimes, my colleagues and I had to dismantle condemned chairs and desks and reconstruct them into any shape just to have a place to sit in class.
Our teachers did the best they could to teach us.
There were times the scheme of work for the term or session was not completed.
Whenever any of our female teachers got pregnant, we knew we would have a deficiency in that subject as she would not be in school most of the time.
It was that bad.
When I got to SSS 3, a lot of my colleagues ran off to other schools where they felt their success in the final exams was guaranteed. You know those schools that have become special centers, where they copy the answers to exams on the board for people to copy.
I stayed back because I was confident of myself. Or no. I stayed back because the WAEC fees in those type of schools was sky-high. Too expensive.
But I knew WAEC would not fail me if I wrote the correct answers in the exams, after all, I had been preparing for the exam long ago. You know I had become a serious student in class.
I had long understood that it is not mere haphazard reading of one's notebooks and textbooks just before an exam that guarantees success, but to apply the technique for effective study and exam preparation.
Our WAEC results were out and I got 7 distinctions as the best results in my school.
Today, students are no longer studious.
If you are not studious, you can’t become the best in your class.
When you grow up to become a banker or a musician or a blogger or an Engineer or a model, make sure you are the best.
That’s how to become a personality in this world.
Which means that you will take everything you do seriously.
But for now, you are not yet a banker or a popular musician, you are a student.
That’s it. A student. Become the best student.
A student is supposed to do what? STUDY!
Otherwise, you are a SCHOOL BOY or a SCHOOL GIRL.
Entertainment is the number one distraction that steals your time and attention. It includes social media, music, movies, games, football, teenage dating, hanging out with friends and so on.
Weh done, Sir!
Most times, the students who get promoted from one class to another didn't really deserve to pass.
Whenever I examine some students in the senior classes closely, I'm always surprised how they managed to get promoted up to the senior classes.
And when they manage to pass out of secondary school, JAMB gives them a tough time.
If they pass JAMB through runs or manage to score 180, they will face another Goliath.
Post-JAMB, Post UTME.
And that’s why you can’t even study your preferred course. You couldn’t make it. You did not prepare for it since when you were in SSS 1.
So it’s now very difficult.
And when you are now in the higher institution, in Year one or two, you will find out that you are still struggling with some elementary questions.
WAEC and NECO are examination bodies. They don't manage the schools; they set exam questions based on syllabus.
The fault is not theirs because they are there to maintain standard. You don't expect them to lower the standard just so that you will pass.
The problem is in the classroom; something has gone wrong with students’ classroom behaviour.
Students no longer study to acquire knowledge—all they want is to pass the exam, so they manage to read their books, if at all, only when exam is approaching or resort to exam malpractice.
You see, no desire to excel in class.
Let me draw a background that will help us throughout this Best Student A+ program.
Please pay attention now.
THE THREE PERIODS IN A TERM
There are three periods in a term. Don’t forget this, please.
You already know that in either the junior or senior secondary school, there are 3 classes each, right?
Also each class, which is a session, has three terms.
That is, first, second and third.
Now, get this trick.
Every session has three periods that you are not aware of.
Namely:
1. Learning Period (Week 1 – 10)
2. Revision Period (Week 11)
3. Exam Period (Week 12 – 13)
Please, let this sink into your soul. Everything we shall be discussing in the next few months will be based on this.
A term has 13 weeks.
The learning period covers the first 10 weeks, week 11 is the revision period, and weeks 12 and 13 is the exam period.
You see.
There are different little, little things that you should do in each of these periods that when exam time table is out, you don’t even need to work hard.
Because you are just easily going to become the best student in your class.
Hahahahahahaha…
School is fun. Exam is simple. Being the best is sweet.
In our next lesson, we will begin to look at the practical aspect of this program. We will start with the Learning Period.
Get ready.
But let’s continue with today’s topic.
GOOD STUDENT, BAD STUDENT
Whether you will do well at the final exams or not depends on what you have been doing since day 1 of school.
What I mean is, the junior certificate exam covers what is taught from JSS 1 to JSS 3, while the senior certificate exam covers what is taught from SSS 1 to SSS 3.
Your WAEC final exam will cover what you have been taught from SSS 1 to SSS 3.
I strongly believe that you cannot have good grades in WAEC or NECO final exams if you have not been doing well in each term since SSS 1.
If you are in SSS 2 or SSS 3 now and you are just hearing this for the first time, then you need to sit up and do some more work.
You will have to double your hustle.
If you are still in a JSS class or SSS 1, then you have an advantage.
Any student who has poor results in WAEC or NECO final exams has obviously not been serious at school since he was in SSS 1.
The same with those of you in the university. If you are not serious from year one, you can’t have a first class or a good second class upper degree. It starts now.
How can a student who has not been serious since SSS 1 excel at such final exams by trying to now study and prepare just 2 weeks to the first paper?
Or, how can a student expect to do well at the end of the term when he is just trying to read his books because his exam timetable is out?
For you to get promoted from one class to another as one of the best students in class and eventually pass WAEC and NECO exams in flying colours, you have to do well in each term.
There are 2 types of students in your class—the good student and the bad student.
You are either this or that.
Simple.
Take a look at the score grading below and you will already know where you belong.
G
rades picture
Grades ABC are for the good students, while DEF are for the bad students.
It is the students who consistently belong to ABC group that are the best students in class and they are the ones that are most likely to pass WAEC and NECO final exams successfully.
If you belong to the DEF group, do not be discouraged.
Thank God you are here.
I hope you start applying the technique in your studies immediately.
Your results will get better.
Once you have been able to move up from DEF to ABC, aim for the very top, the very best, OK?
Let’s look at the good student behaviour first, and then we will also look at the bad student behavious. And we close this session for today.
GOOD STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
The good student knows that the learning period is very important. (That is, week 1 to 12, remember?)
When the term just began, the good student does not deceive himself thinking that exam is still very far away in the future.
He applies what I call “SACA principle.”
SACA means Study-As-Classes-Advance. (There is a session where we will look at this in details. You will love it.)
He doesn't wait until exam period is approaching before he starts studying his books.
He studies his books as classes advance during the learning period.
And he does it for fun. Very smart student.
When the revision period comes, he does the right thing—he revises his books. Smart.
He follows the classwork closely right from the beginning of the term.
With this attitude, he enters the exam period confidently and highly prepared.
The end result is good grades.
I was like this kind of student.
This is the kind of student you want to become.
BAD STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
This type of student is funny.
He is an idiot.
I used to be an idiot, you know.
During the learning period, he does nothing.
He goes to school to copy notes, buys textbooks and keeps them in his bag or at home, after all, exam is still far away in the future, as he thinks.
School just started. No tests yet. No exams yet.
Hahahahaha…
For this type of student, the learning period is: Go to school, come back home, go to school, come back home.
He continues like that until exam is approaching.
When it gets to revision period in school and exam timetable is finally out, that is when he starts to read all his books, instead of revising his work.
What he didn't do in 10 weeks, he tries to achieve in just 1 week. Lol
How is that possible?
Kole werk!
He enters the exam period confused and unprepared.
The end result is poor grades in his subjects.
This is exactly why you are not yet the best student in your class.
Switch your style up.
In other words, ginger your (school) swagga.
What type of student are you today?
In this Best Student A+ program, we will show you what you need to do as a student to not only pass exams, but to pass excellently.
You can excel. You can be celebrated.
You have not yet reached your best performance because nobody has ever told you what you will be learning in this group.
Stay with us and invite your friends.
Thank you.
I love you.
For Jambites and Undergraduates, we trust that you have a higher level of
understanding.
Please, even though this training is customised for secondary school students, note that the principles for school success is the same everywhere.
You just need to follow through.
So all you need to do is replace Lecturer for teacher, lecture hall for classroom, semester for term, WAEC for degree exams, course outline for scheme of work, etc.
WHY STUDENTS FAIL EXAMS
The rate of mass failure of students at WAEC and NECO final exams in recent times has been very terrible.
For instance, in WAEC final exams today in Nigeria, only 3 candidates out of every 10 will obtain up to 5 credits to include English Language and Maths in one sitting.
Many factors in the society have been said to be responsible for this mass failure—poor learning environment, inadequate teaching facilities, unqualified or uncommitted teachers, poor teachers' welfare, high student-teacher ratio or high number of students in class, parental negligence and so on.
Yes, that's very true. But the major factor is that students now have a nonchalant attitude to their studies these days!
We all agree.
Society may not get better overnight, but you will be writing an exam soon.
Will you pass excellently?
Or, will you fail woefully and blame society?
As a student, you may not be able to change society, but you can refuse to be a failure and also decide to pass excellently, you know.
Even if society gets better and you don't take their studies seriously, you are still not going to perform well in exams, let alone becoming the best in the class or school.
I have had a fair share of society, too.
I wasn’t so lucky like most of you today to attend a tush school. I went to a public school. A very public school. Lol.
See, I didn't enjoy a well-stocked library or a well-equipped laboratory in the school I attended.
In fact, throughout second term in JSS 2, I sat on the floor.
Sometimes, my colleagues and I had to dismantle condemned chairs and desks and reconstruct them into any shape just to have a place to sit in class.
Our teachers did the best they could to teach us.
There were times the scheme of work for the term or session was not completed.
Whenever any of our female teachers got pregnant, we knew we would have a deficiency in that subject as she would not be in school most of the time.
It was that bad.
When I got to SSS 3, a lot of my colleagues ran off to other schools where they felt their success in the final exams was guaranteed. You know those schools that have become special centers, where they copy the answers to exams on the board for people to copy.
I stayed back because I was confident of myself. Or no. I stayed back because the WAEC fees in those type of schools was sky-high. Too expensive.
But I knew WAEC would not fail me if I wrote the correct answers in the exams, after all, I had been preparing for the exam long ago. You know I had become a serious student in class.
I had long understood that it is not mere haphazard reading of one's notebooks and textbooks just before an exam that guarantees success, but to apply the technique for effective study and exam preparation.
Our WAEC results were out and I got 7 distinctions as the best results in my school.
Today, students are no longer studious.
If you are not studious, you can’t become the best in your class.
When you grow up to become a banker or a musician or a blogger or an Engineer or a model, make sure you are the best.
That’s how to become a personality in this world.
Which means that you will take everything you do seriously.
But for now, you are not yet a banker or a popular musician, you are a student.
That’s it. A student. Become the best student.
A student is supposed to do what? STUDY!
Otherwise, you are a SCHOOL BOY or a SCHOOL GIRL.
Entertainment is the number one distraction that steals your time and attention. It includes social media, music, movies, games, football, teenage dating, hanging out with friends and so on.
Weh done, Sir!
Most times, the students who get promoted from one class to another didn't really deserve to pass.
Whenever I examine some students in the senior classes closely, I'm always surprised how they managed to get promoted up to the senior classes.
And when they manage to pass out of secondary school, JAMB gives them a tough time.
If they pass JAMB through runs or manage to score 180, they will face another Goliath.
Post-JAMB, Post UTME.
And that’s why you can’t even study your preferred course. You couldn’t make it. You did not prepare for it since when you were in SSS 1.
So it’s now very difficult.
And when you are now in the higher institution, in Year one or two, you will find out that you are still struggling with some elementary questions.
WAEC and NECO are examination bodies. They don't manage the schools; they set exam questions based on syllabus.
The fault is not theirs because they are there to maintain standard. You don't expect them to lower the standard just so that you will pass.
The problem is in the classroom; something has gone wrong with students’ classroom behaviour.
Students no longer study to acquire knowledge—all they want is to pass the exam, so they manage to read their books, if at all, only when exam is approaching or resort to exam malpractice.
You see, no desire to excel in class.
Let me draw a background that will help us throughout this Best Student A+ program.
Please pay attention now.
THE THREE PERIODS IN A TERM
There are three periods in a term. Don’t forget this, please.
You already know that in either the junior or senior secondary school, there are 3 classes each, right?
Also each class, which is a session, has three terms.
That is, first, second and third.
Now, get this trick.
Every session has three periods that you are not aware of.
Namely:
1. Learning Period (Week 1 – 10)
2. Revision Period (Week 11)
3. Exam Period (Week 12 – 13)
Please, let this sink into your soul. Everything we shall be discussing in the next few months will be based on this.
A term has 13 weeks.
The learning period covers the first 10 weeks, week 11 is the revision period, and weeks 12 and 13 is the exam period.
You see.
There are different little, little things that you should do in each of these periods that when exam time table is out, you don’t even need to work hard.
Because you are just easily going to become the best student in your class.
Hahahahahahaha…
School is fun. Exam is simple. Being the best is sweet.
In our next lesson, we will begin to look at the practical aspect of this program. We will start with the Learning Period.
Get ready.
But let’s continue with today’s topic.
GOOD STUDENT, BAD STUDENT
Whether you will do well at the final exams or not depends on what you have been doing since day 1 of school.
What I mean is, the junior certificate exam covers what is taught from JSS 1 to JSS 3, while the senior certificate exam covers what is taught from SSS 1 to SSS 3.
Your WAEC final exam will cover what you have been taught from SSS 1 to SSS 3.
I strongly believe that you cannot have good grades in WAEC or NECO final exams if you have not been doing well in each term since SSS 1.
If you are in SSS 2 or SSS 3 now and you are just hearing this for the first time, then you need to sit up and do some more work.
You will have to double your hustle.
If you are still in a JSS class or SSS 1, then you have an advantage.
Any student who has poor results in WAEC or NECO final exams has obviously not been serious at school since he was in SSS 1.
The same with those of you in the university. If you are not serious from year one, you can’t have a first class or a good second class upper degree. It starts now.
How can a student who has not been serious since SSS 1 excel at such final exams by trying to now study and prepare just 2 weeks to the first paper?
Or, how can a student expect to do well at the end of the term when he is just trying to read his books because his exam timetable is out?
For you to get promoted from one class to another as one of the best students in class and eventually pass WAEC and NECO exams in flying colours, you have to do well in each term.
There are 2 types of students in your class—the good student and the bad student.
You are either this or that.
Simple.
Take a look at the score grading below and you will already know where you belong.
G
rades picture
Grades ABC are for the good students, while DEF are for the bad students.
It is the students who consistently belong to ABC group that are the best students in class and they are the ones that are most likely to pass WAEC and NECO final exams successfully.
If you belong to the DEF group, do not be discouraged.
Thank God you are here.
I hope you start applying the technique in your studies immediately.
Your results will get better.
Once you have been able to move up from DEF to ABC, aim for the very top, the very best, OK?
Let’s look at the good student behaviour first, and then we will also look at the bad student behavious. And we close this session for today.
GOOD STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
The good student knows that the learning period is very important. (That is, week 1 to 12, remember?)
When the term just began, the good student does not deceive himself thinking that exam is still very far away in the future.
He applies what I call “SACA principle.”
SACA means Study-As-Classes-Advance. (There is a session where we will look at this in details. You will love it.)
He doesn't wait until exam period is approaching before he starts studying his books.
He studies his books as classes advance during the learning period.
And he does it for fun. Very smart student.
When the revision period comes, he does the right thing—he revises his books. Smart.
He follows the classwork closely right from the beginning of the term.
With this attitude, he enters the exam period confidently and highly prepared.
The end result is good grades.
I was like this kind of student.
This is the kind of student you want to become.
BAD STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
This type of student is funny.
He is an idiot.
I used to be an idiot, you know.
During the learning period, he does nothing.
He goes to school to copy notes, buys textbooks and keeps them in his bag or at home, after all, exam is still far away in the future, as he thinks.
School just started. No tests yet. No exams yet.
Hahahahaha…
For this type of student, the learning period is: Go to school, come back home, go to school, come back home.
He continues like that until exam is approaching.
When it gets to revision period in school and exam timetable is finally out, that is when he starts to read all his books, instead of revising his work.
What he didn't do in 10 weeks, he tries to achieve in just 1 week. Lol
How is that possible?
Kole werk!
He enters the exam period confused and unprepared.
The end result is poor grades in his subjects.
This is exactly why you are not yet the best student in your class.
Switch your style up.
In other words, ginger your (school) swagga.
What type of student are you today?
In this Best Student A+ program, we will show you what you need to do as a student to not only pass exams, but to pass excellently.
You can excel. You can be celebrated.
You have not yet reached your best performance because nobody has ever told you what you will be learning in this group.
Stay with us and invite your friends.
Thank you.
I love you.
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