How to Be Prepared for a Pop Quiz

Every student is distraught about pop quizzes. They can occur at any moment in class, and teachers especially love to bring them out when the class isn't attentive. Sadly, these puzzles can make or break your grade. Read on to find out how to protect yourself from them.

1. More often than not, your teacher will give you a textbook to take home. This is a gift. Don't let it go to waste. Use it to review what you went over in class today. Take notes on each chapter as the class progresses through it. This includes writing out definitions for all new words you encounter. Every night, study this material for about five to ten minutes. If you're lucky and your textbook comes with a workbook, CD-ROM, or study guide. Use those to aid yourself in studying. You can type your notes if you want, since it will run them through your brain a second time, but this is not required to be prepared.
2. Do your homework as soon as you get home. A large portion of quizzes come from your homework. The material will sink into your brain easier, and you'll memorize things faster.
3. Review your material before classes. Not just before the class pertaining to the material. Since you're in learning mode at school, you'll remember more of the information.
4. Get someone else to review the information with you. Just find a parent, sibling, or friend to test you on your notes to see if you know them. There's a difference between memorizing your notes and knowing them, and there's no better way to know things than being tested.
5. Don't be anxious about a pop quiz. Accept that it will happen, but don't get scared.
6. When the test day finally comes, keep a positive mindset. Repeat to yourself that you are going to get an A on the quiz. The more positive you are, the better you do.
7. Check your answers. Usually, teachers take of points for trivial matters, such as spelling. Make sure your answers are paired with the right question number. As stupid as this sounds, it does happen.
8. Don't dwell on wondering about your grade. Let it go, and try not to worry about it.

How to Succeed in School

1. Think about what you will have to offer on your application to the college you may want to attend. Will your first choice of schools want to welcome you to their student body? If you choose a military career, will the branch of service you want welcome you?
2. Think about the type of lifelong friends you want to have. Will you fit in that circle? will you want to be mean or nice pretty or ugly?
3. Think about what you will have to offer on your application for the job you want. Will the interviewer want to hire you over the next guy in line? Will you have the knowledge and the skills you need to get and hold the job you want?
4. Think about the kind of partner with whom you want to share your life and raise your children. Will your education attract the kind of spouse you need to help you be a good parent and a good citizen?
5. Think about the end results of your education; then you will know that good grades are not the end goal. You want a great education. This is your turn at getting the best your school has to offer.
6. Think of your teachers as offering you tools to put into your toolchest. When you graduate you can walk out of school with a full set of tools or a practically empty toolbox. Unless you have a mental disability it is up to you to pick up each tool as it is offered and put it into your toolbox. Don't let these tools slip out of your hands.
7. Set a goal. When is your next report card due? If you're making a C in a certain class, aim for a B. If you're making a B, aim for an A; so on and so forth.
8. Tell yourself you want a good future and a good job. Picture yourself in your dream job. Now picture yourself on the street. Which do you want?
9. If you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, talk to him/her about your plans and let them know that you might not have as much time to focus on them.
10. Take notes in class, do your homework, and have good attendance. Make sure to focus on your studies and work, instead of that new hot guy/girl in class!
11. What ever you do, don't give up! Always set your goals high and achieve them , plan ahead, and stay on top of everything.
12. Become a well-rounded individual, but don’t forget to pursue your strengths.
13. Join extracurricular activities. This will allow you to make more friends, do something fun, and have something to add on a college or even job resume to show people that you are a w

• Learn to listen. Eighty percent of the questions you find on any test were explained in class.
• If you can't read well, find a tutor. An older student, a teacher, find someone who will listen as you read, read, read!
• If you have poor penmanship, learn it now! Many classes require great handwriting, like English and Science.
• Read more to improve reading speed and comprehension. Read for pleasure at home to achieve this.
• Read all kinds of books. This way, you'll learn how to understand different texts and it'll become pretty interesting.
• Write down all the things you have to do in school so you don't get a bad grade.