Self-Evaluation: Being a Successful Student

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When I first came to high point, I had a lot of bad habits that I picked up while coming up throughout the high school system of my home country Trinidad & Tobago. I had a lot of unhealthy study habits which I never really took time to notice. I had horrible note taking skills, I had a very short concentration/attention span when I lacked interest in a subject and worst of all I had zero time management skills.

Coming up in high school I was an intelligent and capable student but I never used to apply myself to my work. I would slack off during the term and do little or no work, as this only counted for 30% of my final grade. I would not attend class and I wouldn't do most of the homework assignments in the classes that I did go to. When finals came around, I would put in a few weeks of really hard studying, as this was worth the remaining 70% of your grade, and end up with about an 80% or 75%, which in some cases would get me and A in the class.

For the last three years of my high school life my main concern was soccer and it got to the p...

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