Study Time

These students from the Savanna-La-Mar Secondary School take time to study under a tree after school. - File

By Willesby Rutherford, Contributor

WHAT DOES it take for one to do well in school? Ask any high achiever and they'll tell you hard work and sacrifice. However, for most of us the S word ­ Study ­ is like a nightmare within a golden dream.

For me, studying is the hardest part of getting an education. The problems most youngsters have with studying begin in their minds ­ as do all things including our goals. Therefore, it's possible to fail before even putting pen to paper. Knowing this a student can condition his/her mind in a way that studying/revision becomes a part of a daily or weekly routine.

Take music for example, it is what takes most teenagers through the day. Some, as we saw in a previous Youth Link issue, will even seek it out on buses before heading home. I have friends who would rewind a tape over and over just to get the second verse of that 'boom' tune.

You can't really study what you never properly learned or understood, in the first place. Therefore it is equally important that, mainly high school students, pay keen attention in classes in order to fully comprehend a subject or topic which then makes revision so much easier.

So sacrifice some more time, burn the night oil ­ but not the night before exams.

Back to Youth Link