As a final year student of Federal school of Surveying, Oyo, having gone through the pros and cons of the institution as taken out time to gather the following tips to assists all students most especially, the new intakes in becoming a better students. I present to you few steps to becoming a better students and I hope this article impacts you positively. Sit back, relax and enjoy reading through! - Take your Assignment Serious. If you must aspire to become a better student, then your Homework is very essential to achieving greater success. Let me admonish you in this like, Don't procrastinate your assignment. If you have homework due on Monday that was assigned on Friday, don't start the assignment at 11 p.m. on Sunday. Take your homework seriously and try hard problems, even if you're not sure on them. If you are really having trouble, ask your colleague, a friend or your senior colleague. Don't stress about your homework though. Don't let yourself go over 40 minutes a night per assignment, don't procrastinate either. Manage your time. Be prepared in advance for all of your assignments. This is called “studying.” Get used to doing it; it will be your primary activity for the next two or four years on campus.
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Take your Continuous assessments serious. If you have a continuous assessment or test coming up, don't spend your time on playing around or watching television. Tests are a huge part of your final grade. Spend every free moment looking at your lecture note, studying. When you have more free time, do some extra exercises. Make flashcards of words and remember to feel completely prepared when you come into class each day. A good sign is if you know all the questions, you're prepared.
- Pay attention during class. Come to class and pay attention. This one should be a no-brainer. If you must miss class, inform your class Governor or lecturer in advance and explain your situation. And when you’re in class, be visibly and mentally attentive; let your lecturer know you’re in the lecture room. If you don't pay attention it will be almost impossible for you to understand the lesson by yourself. Remember to participate in class as well. This is good for your relationship with your lecturer, for your grades and for passing the time. Besides paying attention in class, take notes in class! Make sure they are neat, so you can read them later on. Write what the lecturer writes on the board and what the Lecturer says in class is very important to be noted.
- Ask to seek clarification. If you are confused on something in class, ask the Teacher/Lecturer. Teachers love questions, but not too many. Remember not to bug her/him all the time with endless questions. When asking them, be polite, simple, and get to the point. Only ask what you're confused on though, because teachers can tell whether or not you are confused.
- Look over the next chapters in your textbooks (see warnings) and scan over it. This way, the next day you will understand more when your teacher explains. Don't really read them, just scan them over, and see what you'll be learning next unless that teacher does not want you to.
- Don't look at the clock at all during the class. It's disrespectful to the teacher, and if you keep looking, it's going to seem like a longer class. If you feel the need to sneak a look, though, your best bet is to bring a watch.
- Go regularly to the library; A library is a market place of ideas and a knowledge bank of information. There's long been a stereotype that black people don't like to read and as the expression goes, "if you want to hide something from a black person, put it in a book" (or some say, "write it down"). Knowledge is in books, not on Wikipedia. Consider your college education a bibliography for the rest of your life. Read books, articles and expound your knowledge by utilizing the Internet while studying.
- Fix a study time and draft your study time-table: Read sitting up (not in bed), with a pencil to mark up the text. A clean text is an unread one. And whenever the Lecturer reads and repeat a phrase or passage out loud, mark it and take note of it. It might be on the next test. Find a quiet, regular place to study. This is your special sanctum, for that purpose only. Don’t eat, listen to music, or entertain your friends there. Study in sessions of no more than an hour, then take a break. Three sessions of fifty minutes each week is better than three hours at one sitting. A general rule is two hours of study time for each hour of class
- Don't miss out of your Practicals: Remember Surveying and Geoinformatics is practically oriented and not theoretical. Take your practicals serious, strife to handle the instruments, don't leave the tasks for just a few persons. Your practical carries more grade point and you could imagine the effect of a poor performance on your CGPA.
- Eat and take enough rest: As good meal keeps one mentally alert therefore, remember that one can not think well, read well nor sleep well if one has not dined well. So, eat correct meal as at when due and give yourself enough rest!
- Find an appropriate social outlet. The best students are well-rounded. A social outlet is not, however, a wild night on the town. Join campus organizations such as the Junior Chambers International (JCI) or the Rotary Club. Check the school noticeboard for events happening both on campus and in the community.
- Above all and most importantly, Pray always and and live a life pleasing to God.
Enjoy yourself. This should be, literally, the time of your life!
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