Making The Grade

Written by Annagail Lynes


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For remembering names, devise a relationship betweenrepparttar name andrepparttar 111369 physical characteristics ofrepparttar 111370 person. For example, Shirley Temple might be remembered as having “curly”--which rhymes with Shirley--hair around her temples.

When you have an ordered or an unordered list you need to memorize, you can create a story linkingrepparttar 111371 ideas together. The more crazier,repparttar 111372 better. If your vocabulary words are success, assistant, cemetery, scrutinize, you might create a story of a successful assistant scrutinizing tombstones in a cemetery, searching for her boss’ grave.

Studying For Tests

Write down a study checklist of what will be covered onrepparttar 111373 test. Make a list of notes, formulas, ideas and text assignments that you are responsible for.

Create flashcards--put topics or questions onrepparttar 111374 front and answers onrepparttar 111375 back. Have a friend, parent or sibling quiz you. Keep running throughrepparttar 111376 flashcards while you brush your teeth, are onrepparttar 111377 bus, when you are inrepparttar 111378 restroom and when you are doing chores.

Produce a mock test. One with onlyrepparttar 111379 questions and another with onlyrepparttar 111380 answers. Hiderepparttar 111381 answers in a drawer or give them to a parent. Takerepparttar 111382 test and when completed, compare your responses withrepparttar 111383 ones onrepparttar 111384 answer sheet. Keep repeating this process until you knowrepparttar 111385 material backward and forward.

If you want to make studying for a test fun, team up with a friend and playrepparttar 111386 game show Twenty-One. A parent or sibling should host , reading offrepparttar 111387 questions. You and your friend compete against each other until one of you reaches twenty-one points.

Avoid Getting Involved In Too Many Activities

If you want to participate in an extracurricular activity, you can reschedule your study time. However, if baseball, ballet or any other activities make you stay up late trying to finish your homework, then you are involved in too many activities.

Play Educational Games

Afterrepparttar 111388 homework is finished, pull out a board game. Monopoly encourages mental calculation when counting money and determining moves, and Clue requires logical deductive skills. Try to figure outrepparttar 111389 measurements when doubling a recipe inrepparttar 111390 kitchen.

Playing word games with your family or friends can improve spelling skills. Scrabble, anagrams, Wheel of Fortune and word jumbles can teach you to spell new words.

II Timothy 2:15 says to study to show yourself approved unto God.

If you care enough about your grades to takerepparttar 111391 time to develop conscientious study habits, you receive better marks, learn self-discipline and will have more options when it comes to selecting colleges. No matter what you choose to do in life, you should have a good education to fall back on. Not everything in life comes easy. The key is to make up your mind to work hard forrepparttar 111392 things you want. And not to let anyone or anything get in your way.

Annagail Lynes is editor of VisionHope Magazine. She specializes in writing articles for young adults about dating, school, parents, peer pressure and other youth-related issues. Get your Free Sample Issue of VisionHope, plus free articles and free pen pal ads at http://visionhope.ontheweb.com


Watch Your Language!

Written by Annagail Lynes


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Did you know that angels are all around you, just waiting to carry out your words of faith? When you speak negatively, you cancel outrepparttar positive words you have spoken. James 1:8--“He is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.” A double-minded person is one who has one foot inrepparttar 111368 world's way of thinking and one foot in God's promises. God is calling us to choose one and be steadfast in that thinking and that thinking only. The Bible says that God would prefer that we either be hot or cold rather than lukewarm Christians.

So, how do we start to change our mouths?

1) Ask God For Help. Make Psalm 141:3 “Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch overrepparttar 111369 door of my lips.” your daily prayer.

2) Renew Your Mind. Romans 12:1-2 says “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer torepparttar 111370 pattern of this world, but be transformed byrepparttar 111371 renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.” By changing your thoughts, you will change your mouth because Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) reveals “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:” Memorize scriptures onrepparttar 111372 mouth. Meditate on them by thinking about them, reciting them, mulling them over in your mind. Make them personal to you by inserting your name intorepparttar 111373 scripture, such "For God so loved Annagail that he gave his one and only Son, that Annagail who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) Then try to visual yourself speaking and thinking according to God's Word.

3) Monitor Your Mouth. A wise person watchesrepparttar 111374 words that come out of his/her mouth.. Ask God to convict you when you utter wrong words, use profanities or cut someone down. When you get into a bad situation, Philippians 4:8 says to “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.”

4) Start to prophesy over your own life. God told us to “calleth those things which be not as though they were.(Romans 4:17 KJV). As long as it lines up with God's will, you can speak out what you want as long as you keep speaking it and believing it in your heart. Speak God's promises over your life.

5) Use your mouth to exhort and encourage others. Begin to pray God's word of your life andrepparttar 111375 lives of your friends and family.

I am still struggling in this area, but every day I am growing up more in Christ. We must train our mouths and flesh to conform to God's Word. I challenge you to make a decision to do so today.



Annagail Lynes is editor of VisionHope Magazine. She specializes in writing articles for young adults about dating, school, parents, peer pressure and other youth-related issues. Get your Free Sample Issue of VisionHope, plus free articles and free pen pal ads at http://visionhope.ontheweb.com


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