Blogs – MCS

Our Class as a Family

adminmcs — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 04:20:37 +0000

When children join a new class, they may be nervous and unsure about what to expect. Families want to know if they will be welcome and if the teachers will value their suggestions and appreciate their child. Use these tips to help ease transitions year-round and to get a new year off to a great start.

You don’t always get what you wish for; you get what you work for.

What would happen if everyone in the class were exactly the same? In what way does it make our class community better to be different from each other in some ways? (Note: Distribute the “Two Families” handout.) Read the handout silently. Then answer the questions at the end of the handout.

Becoming No. 1 in Class

adminmcs — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:57:23 +0000

Do I think students should be obsessed about grades? No. Do I think good grades are the key to long-term success? No. But do I think that grades matter, at least a little? Yes. A strong …. damage your brain. So focus on one thing at a time, and you’ll be that much closer to becoming a straight-A student.

It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.

As a result, their lifestyle is not world-class. They’re … “Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become.

How to Pass an Exam

adminmcs — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:57:19 +0000

Do a practice exam. You can take any essay or problem and use it as your mock exam. Make sure you do the mock exam in the same allotted time as the actual exam. If you test yourself just twice, you will remember 75-80% of the material two weeks later. With no practice tests, that figure is just 20%.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

In life, there aren’t any paper tests. But in school, they seem to be all the time. It should be so simple as to read the material and go to class, but sometimes that’s not enough. We’ll cover how to study effectively in this article.

Stop Procrastinating

adminmcs — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:57:13 +0000

Write down your goal and give yourself a deadline. Write down your goal and give yourself a deadline. A goal without a deadline can be put off indefinitely. Break your goal into small pieces. Visualize the future you want. Harness fear. Build accountability. Reward progress. Act bravely daily.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Eliminate your procrastination pit-stops. If you are procrastinating a little too much, maybe that’s because you make it easy to procrastinate. Identify your browser bookmarks that take up a lot of your time and shift them into a separate folder that is less accessible. Disable the automatic notification option in your email client.

A Guide To Desired Grades

adminmcs — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:00:43 +0000

Keep track of your progress – this will help keep you motivated by letting yourself know that you can’t afford a slip up if you want to get that High Distinction. When you get to the exam (or final assessment) for the subject you will know exactly how many marks you require to get your desired grade.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar

Enough about goat grades, though – this guide is meant to help you improve … The grade is simply a result you can use to quantify your desired … I called them 10 steps, but you should actually think of them as levels in a.