How can i develop better study habits?

Question

its my sophomore year in high school and i want to make this my best year academically. i am a very organized person. there is a little room for improvement in that area but overall I'm a very organized student. however, the area where i need the most help is study habits. I'm a smart kid, I'm not afraid to admit it. i have always seemed to get pretty good grades, high B's and low A's, just by skimming the material. but i want to get great grades. i want to remember the material after i am finished with the chapter. i have always done the bare minimum on my homework just so i can get it done. assignments take me 15 minutes tops. and i remember the material for a few days and then its all gone. so how can i develop better study habits so i can remember the material, and get better grades, and eventually get into a great college. school has always been easy for me. and i hate seeing all of my friends busting their butts to get good grades but still fall short while i barely do anything and i still get good grades. i want to actually earn the grades i get. and remember the things i learn. so how can i develop better study habits, and methods to help me remember the material?

Answer 1

Keep of the internet online for study.

Answer 2

yah you need to do more than the bare minimum. working hard is very important. go over the material for each class every day when you come home. do you homework, participate in class, be active.  

Answer 3

Start a study group. If you actually study the material together everyone will learn. This can't be the only time you study, but an hour twice a week is a good investment.

In college, I thought I could pass Organic Chemistry all I had to do was study every night. I thought the people who failed were just partying too much. So I studied, every night for a couple of hours. I thought that first test was going to be a breeze. Imagine my shock when I scored a 44%. I never failed a test before, and I studied my butt of for this one. I dropped the class. First drop I ever had.

The next semester, I retook it. This time on the first day a group of us already new each other--we were all failures from last semester, about 20 of us. We decided to meet in the library after class for a while and go over stuff every lecture. It hit me I failed cause I was trying to just memorize the stuff to forget it, but in the group sometimes I was a teacher, sometimes a student, and every minute we were together I was actually learning how the mechanisms of the reaction occurred because I had to explain them to this 1 guy over and over so much. He would ask me such silly questions and want me to explain why it happened that I really new my stuff.

First test came and we blew the curve. I scored a 106%-got the bonus question. All the group got A's and B's except for my poor guy. He got a C. English was his second language and he was just thrilled. If he passed this class he was off to chiropratic school.

So give a group study a try. Everyone involved doesn't have to be a genius just working toward the same goal.