I'm not a top student, nor am I a scumbag, it's just that I almost stepped into the ranks of school masters, and I'm only one step away from being a top student.
So I have a little insight into how to become a top student, and I'm not talking nonsense.
Over the years, I have read a lot of articles on education, and there are many students who are top students and students who are engaged in teaching and training.
I'm going to synthesize their views, plus my own personal experience, and I'm going to try to talk about how a moderately qualified person can become a top student.
If you want to become a top student, there are still conditions.
Their academic performance should not be too bad, and they should be at least at the upper middle level in the class.
This is the case for me, as are several of my top students.
There is no student who is at the bottom of the class from the beginning, at least there are about 40 people in the class, and they are in the top 20 of the class.
If you are at the bottom of the grades, there is a high probability that you will not become a top student.
This is a basic requirement.
Among the classmates I know, none of them have gone from the bottom of the class to become a top student.
Not a single one.
Like my classmate C, who I often use as an example, since I met him in junior high school, he was not a top student, but he was not a scumbag, and his grades were not at the bottom, but in the top 10 of the class.
And I was a top student in his eyes, once.
In the first year of junior high school, I went from the top 10 in my class to the first in my class in half a year.
In my second year of junior high school, I went from grade 15 to grade 1 in half a year.
So in my opinion, student C is not a top student, and he can be ranked in the class, but not in the grade.
At that time, it was very difficult for him to be admitted to the first middle school, at most the second middle school.
And I'm easy.
If I can't get into the first middle school, basically no one in our school will be able to get into the first middle school.
There are only two or three classmates who can compete with me.
Even my English teacher, who taught me for three years, often told me that I was the number one seed in the school.
Once, in my third year of junior high school, my grades dropped slightly, so she talked to me and asked me what was going on, and she couldn't believe that my ranking would drop.
In the third year of junior high school, I reached a stable period, and there was no progress, so it would be good if I didn't regress.
I was amazed when Student C's academic performance improved so quickly.
When I was in the third year of junior high school, we were not in the same class, but every time the exam results came out, I would see that his ranking was skyrocketing.
In the first year of junior high school, he went from being able to be admitted to the second middle school to being able to be admitted to the first middle school.
The level of progress here is comparable to the progress I made from the first to the second year of junior high school.
When I arrived at No. 1 Middle School, he still maintained this progressive momentum and surpassed me, scoring more than 600 points in the college entrance examination and being admitted to a prestigious school.
Although I don't know his specific learning method, we haven't discussed it.
But I've had a glorious history, and I still know a little bit about it.
I guess he probably used this learning method to become a top student.
How?
In fact, everyone should know that the teacher has said it many times, but many people have not done it.
Including me, after I arrived at No. 1 Middle School, I lost this method, so the college entrance examination was miserable.
There are three steps to how to become a top student.
The first is to preview before class.
Before you start a new lesson, you have to preview in advance, you have to deduce how those formulas and theorems come about, and use what you have learned before to deduce.
Before class, you have to understand most of the knowledge points.
The second is to listen carefully in class.
This doesn't mean that you listen carefully for 45 minutes, but that you spend your time in vague places that you can't figure out before the preparation.
The rest of the time, you can preview the content of the next lesson or do exercises to reinforce.
This is called learning and having more than enough energy.
When I was in junior high school, I did it, and several of my classmates did it.
The teacher is on the podium, and we do our own thing underneath.
After all, the teacher's course progress is for the middle level of students.
As a member of the top few in the class, if you follow the teacher's pace, your time will be wasted, which will limit your level.
You have to learn ahead of time.
It's a pity that we didn't have too much of a sense of advance at that time.
We just previewed the content of one or two lessons in advance.
If any of my classmates ask me how to study, I will say that I should study ahead of time.
For example, if you are a student in the first year of junior high school, you can complete the courses in the second and third years of junior high school.
The focus of advanced learning is not on specific knowledge points, but on cultivating the habit of self-directed learning.
Specific knowledge points, you can be useful for dealing with the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination.
But after you go into society, you can't use those knowledge points at all.
But the self-directed learning habits you develop through advanced learning can benefit you for a lifetime.
Why do you want to study ahead of time, in fact, it is to make your life redundant.
You have to fight uncertainty with redundancy.
You can't be in good shape every day and keep up with the teaching.
Maybe one day you're sick, you're in a bad mood, something happened to you.
Then don't you just fall behind in the teaching progress?
But if you study ahead of time, you will learn all the knowledge of the three years of junior high school in the first year of junior high school.
Then you don't have to worry about the teacher's teaching progress, and you don't have to worry about not being in class one day.
If you have a sense of mastery of your learning, you will not be anxious, and you will be calm.
After learning in advance, it is to check and fill in the gaps and remove the blind spots of your knowledge.
It is equivalent to that you have two or three more years to prepare for the exam than your classmates in the same class, and if you don't become a top student, who will become a top student.
The above is to preview in advance and learn in advance.
Now comes the third step.
The third is to review in time after class.
This review isn't just about you making a summary on your own.
You have to ask the teacher for advice in person after class, and ask the teacher why you have more questions.
It's best to repeat it to the teacher after you finish asking, and ask the teacher if he understands it this way, and it's not enough to do it again.
Then you repeat it to your classmates, and one time is not enough.
Until you can explain it clearly, and others can understand it.
Teaching is the best way to learn.
This is also known as the Feynman Method.
Writing is also a form of Feynman's learning, but it is less effective than speaking in person.
When I was in junior high school, I basically followed these three steps, so I was admitted to the first high school.
It's just that after I arrived at No. 1 Middle School, I lost these three steps.
I lost the preview in advance, and I didn't ask the teacher, nor did I ask my classmates, and I didn't teach my classmates, so I was very passive and difficult to learn, and I couldn't keep up with the teaching progress.