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The usual school stuff

Your books, folders, note pads… the essentials for every single subject you attend today.

Extra sheets for notes! You can take loose leaf sheets, note pads, smaller note pads… just anything in case you need some for notes, doodling or anything else ;)

Pencil pouch!! I’ll do a separate ‘what to put in your pencil pouch’ and link it here then.

PLANNER!! Don’t forget your planner. You’ll regret it if you do.

Make sure all your homework for today is in your bag!! There is nothing worse than spending hours and energy on homework and then not being able to present it because you forgot it at home!

Some other supplies that MIGHT be handy:

Glue

Scissors

Washi tape

Post it’s/ Page flags

Calculator

Atlas

Charger (I keep one for my phone and one for my calculator with me)

Compass

Pen refills

Food

Definitely keep a bottle of something to drink in your bag. I’d recommend water, any juice mixed with water or self made flavored water (I’ll do a post on that also) but you can basically take anything with you, even though water works best and is the healthiest.

I also keep a smaller bottle of coffee with me because I need that caffeine to stay productive and not letting the sleep overwhelm me in class, but that’s up to you. Tea also works super good!!

Take some healthy snacks with you every day. I’d recommend fruit or vegetable of any kind you prefer, but trail mixes are also fine!

Keep some (preferably healthy) bars in your school bag in case you have nothing to eat. Eat that bar then!!

If your school offers lunch, for god’s sake take the opportunity and get some warm, nice nurturing food in you!! It will only help you in classes after lunch (if you’re not eating as much as I once did and I felt so satisfied and warmish and tired and fell asleep xD)

If your school does not offer lunch, take some lunch with you!!

I also have some dark chocolate in my bag, because I frickin love it xD

Other important stuff :)

Keep some money in your bag. You never know when you might need it. I usually keep 10 euros in my bag, just in case.

Anything you need for extracurricular activity!! (e.g. sports clothes etc)

Ever since I first saw someone doing this, I keep an emergency bag in my school bag. That bag contains…

Deodorant

Bobby pins

Ribbons

Tampons (I’m a girl lol and I am not on birth control.. so these saved me a couple times xD)

Nail files/ emery boards (I was the SAVIOR of my friends so many times xD)

My ID

Hand cream

Lip balm

I also always keep a lighter with me and some gum, due to one of my friends being a smoker and she somehow sometimes forgets her lighter and gum, and also you can perfectly light candles with them. And tbh.. gum is always good xD

(This is what I do, so just do your thing, use this as a kinda checklist/inspo and experiment a bit xD)

mechanical pencil

normal pencil

two ball pens

(fountain) pen

ink eraser

eraser

pencil sharpener

fineliners in red, blue, green, orange, pink and yellow (I have way more, but I leave those at home usually)

highlighters

a thin overhead marker because we use those a lot in school (not waterproof)

a small set of page flags

set square

ruler

sometimes I also have a small note in my pouch (please please pay attention to your teachers not thinking you’re cheating on a test or something!!!) with important stuff I have to do or like a goal I really need to focus on, or something I definitely have to keep in mind (like an appointment directly after school)

Okay so since next academic year is approaching, i decided to make a post about what to do before school starts so you are all well organized and super prepared for what is coming!!

So first things first:

- If you get some sort of list of school supplies you have to buy, go and get those! I always do this as soon as possible to make sure I am getting everything right there and not having to wait for some things to be accessable

- Decide on an organization and planner system! Maybe you have one that works super good for you since forever, maybe you’re just trying out something, it really does not matter. It is helpful though to decide on one system and then buy your supplies that are not on the list from your school.

  Examples for organization systems:

  - use binders for each class/subject you are taking

  - use notepads for each class/subject you are taking

  - use one big binder for all of your classes/subjects (I wouldn’t rly recommend  that, I have tried it out, but do whatever works best for you! Also this is works better when you don’t have that many classes/subjects)

  - use folders for each class/subject you are taking

  - use two folders/binders for each class/subject, dividing all the paper in i.e. notes, copies, papers etc.

  Examples for planning systems:

  - if your school offers a planner, you probably have tried that out. If not, it’s always worth a try!

  - use a student planner (the varieties are ENDLESS)

  - use something like a Hobonichi planner

  - use a bullet journal!! (I’m serious I am in LOVE with it)

Go and buy school supplies!!

- Deep clean your room! (Or at least, your desk area/study space)

- If you don’t have a desk/study space, create one! There are several methods on how to do that! (I’d highly suggest to NOT using your bed as a permanent study space, because your mind associates bed with sleep. While studying in bed, your mind starts to draw a connection between bed and studying (that will lead you to not sleeping well) and also a connection between studying and sleeping, which will lead you to less productive studying. And that’s not what you want after all, right?)

- If you want to, set goals! That can be anything really, mine are mostly to participate more and certain goals for marks/grades, but you can also set as a goal to not have anything below B- or anything :)

- Work on a consistent sleeping habit! I still struggle with this, but keeping a consistent sleeping habit is very important for both your body and your brain. Also it will be a lot easier to study if you sleep enough each night! For me, eight to ten hours of sleep would be perfect, but since I have to get out of bed by six am I prefer to not go to sleep at nine but rather between nine and eleven (with exceptions)

So all throughout my school career, I was never getting half as good participation grades as I actually could have gotten because I always hesistated to participate. And even now this is still a thing (in my senior year). If you experience the same thing, read further!!

Okay, so before we’re moving to solution methods, you have to figure out, why you’re not participating.

1. It is possible that you would love to participate, but have a hard time understanding what is happening and what you’re dealing with? Have you an idea of what to say or not? (Understanding Problem) 2. Or are you afraid of saying stuff in class? (Anxiety problem) Varities of Nr.1) 1. It’s possible you don’t quite understand whatever you’re current topic is about. Everyone has these topics (I never understood how exactly the german gov works xD). I’d generally say try to understand it as best as you can. If you end up not understanding it all through the way, it’s not that bad. As long as you at least understand parts of it!!! Ask teachers, your parents, friends, classmates for help!! The only way out of this is studying. 2. It’s also possible that you struggle with the whole class (I struggled with Physics all through out my school career until I could finally get rid of it in sophomore year). When it comes to not understanding a whole class, figure out why. Often it is because you don’t have the basics. If you’re not willing to put energy in a class like this, try to get rid of it asap and don’t take it next year if you can. Until then, at least try to be the best you can and study (even if the end result is, just like in my case, a C with a thick and fat minus or worse. My teacher actually wanted to give me a D, but I asked him to give me a C because I was not going to take Physics ever again xD). SO: Either get rid of it or study rly hard! 3. Maybe you and your teacher don’t really get along, maybe you don’t understand the way they ask questions and what exactly they want to hear. Possible!! But these teachers oftentimes have students in their classes that manage to say what they want to hear. Listen to these carefully and try to adapt your answers. If you notice that your teacher is unfair (Example below), try to talk with classmates about it, any authority figure that could talk to the teacher or confront the teacher yourself. In a nice and polite way though, please! (weird and hilarious) example: Teacher: When was WW2? You: It began on 1st September 1939 and ended on May 9th 1945. Teacher: *gives you a weird look that implies you’re wrong* *picks another student* Other student: The time between September 1st 1939 and May 9th 1945 is called WW2. Teacher: Correct!!! Okay, so we’re through the understanding part. I myself though have less problems understanding but rather am afraid of talking in front of other people in any way possible; I suffer from (social) anxiety disorder. I know it can take you a lot to just raise your hand and knowing you’ll be picked because you never talk. Possible solutions: - try to concentrate on one or two classes that are the most important or that are the easiest for you to show up in. Then try to set yourself a goal ‘I’ll show up once in these classes’. If you fulfill the goal, you’ll be super proud of yourself, and you have every right to feel this way. I am always excited whenever I say something xD - try to talk to your teachers about your problems, and explain roughly how participation makes you feel like. You don’t have to go in detail about anything if you don’t feel comfortable doing so. - look for some calming, stress relieving exercises or “mantras” for people with anxiety. - find someone in your class that is a “safe haven”. Someone that gives you a sense of security, even if this is your teacher. You don’t even have to tell them. Ofc it’s not always working, but it did quite well for me in some of my classes. - don’t stress yourself too much. Everything is going to be okay, and it’s completely fine when you don’t show up because you’re on the verge of a panic attack and can’t speak. - treat yourself for showing up ^^ you deserve it. - I’d recommend seeing a therapist if its getting really bad, not just “shyness”, but panic attacks and true fear. If you have anything to add, criticize, say, sing (ok just kidding), feel free to do so!!

So this studyblr is so dead just because life & mental illness is happening and i can’t do anything about it at the moment, it’s kinda bad, but i graduated in June and i just wanted to tell you my grades!

I had four written exams, three on advanced level (history, english, geography) and one in maths and then an oral exam in biology.

In History I got a B (11 points out of 15) which i am really happy with as the mocks we had were worse than that 😂

In English I got an A (14 points out of 15) which i am SUPER HAPPY with but also lowkey expected

In Geography I got a C+ (9 points out of 15) which is literally the grade I am the most happy about because I was so scared I’d fail that subject😂😂😂

In Maths I got a B (11 points out of 15) which i can live with, but i was better in my mock and i felt like that exam was easy for me and seeing “only” a B was lowkey disappointing but it could be so much worse 😂🙃

In my oral exam in Biology i got an A- (13 points out of 15) which is sooo incredible as I was really hella nervous in that situation but my teacher was really damn nice to me and I also studied really hard 😊

So in total I have a GPA of 2,1 (the lower your GPA the better) and i couldn’t be happier even though I always kinda wished i would have a GPA of 1,x but i have had a hard time performing well academically in Year 12 due to mental illness and shit like that so i can forgive myself.

If you wanna know more about the exams or my studying process, like this or comment it (u can reblog too just let me know 😂😂)

Hope you have a lovely day, don’t stress out, relax and forgive yourself,