8th Grade Now. No BSing around and Help.

This is your warmup. If you goof off all of 8th grade (like i did, even though i had A's and B's) you will end up taking a semester or so to get used to the higher workload of high school. Honestly the best thing to do is figure out your teacher's personalities, because there are some that will accept late work, and some that won't. Some who will give you tons of time and little homework, and some that will overload you. So do your best in the hard classes, and just do the work in the easier classes. The absolute easiest grading teachers are the ones that only give you credit for doing it, not getting them right, those should be the ones you get an easy A in.
 
Possible things:

DON'T get a girlfriend. It's retarded (believe me...)

Get really good at a sport, because honestly, the thing I look forward to during the whole school day (high school) is the sports.

do math competitions, but don't be too competitive. Just enough to qualify for state (for fun)

Science olympiad can also be really fun if you guys can make nats
 
How old are you in 8th grade? I'm in england and the system i think is different ill turn 18 in the year starting which is year 13 for me
 
Im in 10th grade now this year, and I have to say that 8th grade was honestly harder than 9th grade as far as level of work. I very seldom had to do work outside of school in 9th grade. However: this was somewhat of a privilege. Teachers liked me because they know I was a hard worker in 8th grade. I didn't do any goofing off (in class ;)) during 8th grade, and even though I had different teachers in 9th grade obviously, they still find out from the 8th grade teachers which students are hard workers. If I was a slacker, teachers would know even before the school year started. If I had been one of those students, the teachers would have been harsher on me. With the teachers that just give you credit for doing the work without actually reading and grading the answers, I occasionally got out of having to do some of those small, repetitive, meaningless, yet somewhat annoying and time consuming assignments. And assignments that I still had to do, I could do in class, because the teachers trusted me to be able to work and listen at the same time (which I got very good at doing secretly in 8th grade anyway...if they hadn't given me permission, I would have done it anyway without them knowing...). That gave me more time to put work into the harder classes without stressing myself even the slightest bit.

I don't know about your school. I don't know if your school has both middle and high school like mine. Or if it doesn't, I dont know if there is some recommendation system that can be used to have teachers from your school tell the teachers in whatever high school you go to next year what kind of student you were. If there is anything like this to make it so your 9th grade teachers will know how hard you worked in 8th grade, then look at it this way: the harder you work now, the better your teachers should treat you next year in high school.
 
6th grade: Transition from elementary, things pick up alot, might be shocking. Kind of hard.
7th grade: Coast. Easy sailing unless you screw things up majorly
8th grade: You just have to keep your priorities straight. Alot of distraction. Be like the one asian kid in your class that every school has. You know, the one kid who has a binder, notebook, pencil, pen, and marker for every subject. He doesn't seem to anything but school sleep and eat. Assuming you have no extra curricular activities, making school one of your top priorities should be easy easy.

This is coming from a 9th grader in honors classes playing varsity football, cubing and watching anime in his spare time.
 
8th grade: You just have to keep your priorities straight. Alot of distraction. Be like the one asian kid in your class that every school has. You know, the one kid who has a binder, notebook, pencil, pen, and marker for every subject. He doesn't seem to anything but school sleep and eat. Assuming you have no extra curricular activities, making school one of your top priorities should be easy easy.

Wut. You mean you want to be a nobody?
 
8th grade: You just have to keep your priorities straight. Alot of distraction. Be like the one asian kid in your class that every school has. You know, the one kid who has a binder, notebook, pencil, pen, and marker for every subject. He doesn't seem to anything but school sleep and eat. Assuming you have no extra curricular activities, making school one of your top priorities should be easy easy.

Wut. You mean you want to be a nobody?

>Implying focusing mostly on school makes you a nobody?
 
8th grade: You just have to keep your priorities straight. Alot of distraction. Be like the one asian kid in your class that every school has. You know, the one kid who has a binder, notebook, pencil, pen, and marker for every subject. He doesn't seem to anything but school sleep and eat. Assuming you have no extra curricular activities, making school one of your top priorities should be easy easy.

Wut. You mean you want to be a nobody?

just because you are focusing on your schoolwork doesn't mean you have to hide in a corner and not talk to anyone and ignore everyone...
 
6th grade: Transition from elementary, things pick up alot, might be shocking. Kind of hard.
7th grade: Coast. Easy sailing unless you screw things up majorly
8th grade: You just have to keep your priorities straight. Alot of distraction. Be like the one asian kid in your class that every school has. You know, the one kid who has a binder, notebook, pencil, pen, and marker for every subject. He doesn't seem to anything but school sleep and eat. Assuming you have no extra curricular activities, making school one of your top priorities should be easy easy.

This is coming from a 9th grader in honors classes playing varsity football, cubing and watching anime in his spare time.

Who, me?
So far, as I read, I can see what you guys are saying
-Just study and do what you need
-It's easy, HS is harder.
-JH is a joke?
 
Elementary school: Joke.

I'd like to see how proficient you'd be in High School without Elementary School.

Was gonna say that.


Also reminds me
I am commiting myself to limiting the times I bring my cubes. When I think about it, it makes sense. What am I gonna do, know my OLLs? With school going around and not a lot of free time?
 
Grade 8 isn't that bad... if you need some motivation, just think of how the light at the end of the tunnel is coming :P
 
Middle school, you CAN pretty much BS it ahahaha, 8th grade was the w/e year for me ahahahaha (still 4.0 gpa tho :P)
Freshman year too of High School (Some classes and depending on teachers roflll)
After that however... It's all just a mind over matter, the mentality of if I work now, better off later
Also participating in sports help cuz it teaches you to push yourself when you don't feel like it or can't
 
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