By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This blog post features practical advice about what to do when you have too much to do. The advice is useful for those occasional times – up to a few days in a row – when you are overwhelmed and have …
How to raise your GPA – and other important GPA details
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This blog post covers everything you need to know about your GPA in college and high school, including how to raise your GPA, how to calculate your GPA, and why it even matters in the first place. What is a GPA? …
10 tips for taking hard classes
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This blog post shares 10 tips for taking hard classes in high school and college. Hard classes provide a healthy challenge, the opportunity for growth (and getting smarter!), and often a pathway to cooler things. In other words, you should be …
How to feel less overwhelmed in school: 5 tips for students
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Feeling overwhelmed in school is a primary reason students experience anxiety, miss school, sleep poorly, and avoid assignments. That can hardly be surprising, as school is essentially a high-stakes, full-time job with endless assessments and many moving parts. Common causes of …
5 signs youâre studying wrong and what to do instead
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This blog post reveals five signs youâre studying wrong and what to do instead. Because schools rarely teach students how to study, students are often left to figure it out on their own. Naturally, this includes a lot of trial and …
What to do if you hate a class: 6 tips for students
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Youâre going to hate a class. At some point in your school life, youâre going to hate a class for some reason or another. Maybe itâs the teacher, or maybe itâs the subject matter. Maybe itâs too hard, or maybe itâs …
How to finish a semester in college: 10 tips to end the semester right
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This blog post teaches you 10 tips for how to finish a semester in college. I suggest you consult the list below whenever your wrap up a college semester. For most students, that would be twice a year: once before winter …
How to do a student self-assessment to identify strengths and weaknesses
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post will teach you everything you need to know about how to do a student self-assessment. To support you in this process, I have made a free Student Self-Assessment Checklist that you can download and use over and over again. …
How long should high school students study?
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Super common question: How long should high school students study? I know you want me to answer with something simple, like 30 minutes a day. But you know I canât do that. You know the real answer is âit depends.â To …
12 critical study tips for college students
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Study tips for college students are a little different than study tips for high school students. Of course, the two most critical study strategies in existence apply to students of all ages (I explain these below, so keep reading). But still, …