Strategies I Use for School

Basically just try hard.

You need to figure out what’s important

My biggest issue when it comes to the modern education system is that they want us to read a lot of textbooks. The problem with that is most of the content in textbooks isn’t actually useful (like fluff and stuff) so the first skill you can learn is to ignore all the garbage that they put in there.

You also have to learn which parts of your assignments really will take your effort and which parts your teachers are just expecting a response for (then you just write something down that will fulfill whatever the requirement could be on the rubric).

English

Just take a minute to learn basic punctuation grammar. That is what gets a lot of people on this one. It’s really not very hard. You should also have someone check (that knows about punctuation) on your commas once your papers are done.

It’s also good to have that person read through your whole paper to tell you where your paper could easily improve. That’s the step that will save you the most points, so at the very least read your paper critically if you can’t get someone else to. Honestly, that’s the only thing (besides some math) that I use AI for in school.

The next step is to try and make sure your writing efficiently conveys information without being really fluffy. Efficient communication can use more complex words, but don’t just use words because you know them or because you looked them up. Make sure they are worth putting in.

Lastly, you’ll do a lot of synthesis stuff in HS and college, so I’ve found for this once you can actually BS the applicability of the content of your references, just make sure that it comes from a really credible source (that’s what the teachers are looking out for). Then you can find a way to make the paper you found apply to your claim. Of course, the better way to do it would be to actually find a good source, but this works too, especially when you’re writing about something obscure.

That’s just about it for English.

Math

The only real thing I can say about math is that you need to practice problems. Like a lot.

Of course, pay attention in class, but if you miss something, you’re really going to need it. So look it up a few different places (so you know it from multiple sources and don’t miss much that’s really important) and practice it a bunch.

If you still can’t figure it out, then you can ‘’ask the teacher’’ so that you know how it works.

Don’t miss anything, you gonna need it later.

But that’s all of math.