With midterms coming and going, along with upcoming tests and even finals, every time the same question stands: “How are you studying?” For some kids, it’s asking if others are going to even study for things like midterms at all!
“Half the week I’m busy, and the other I’m tired after school,” CJHS student Lucy Navarre said. “I don’t have the time and energy to study.”
Navarre believes that studying would be beneficial for her, but still doesn’t study because of how tired she can become after coming home. I know a lot of kids can agree with this; after eight hours of school, I know I don’t want to study either.
After interviewing two other kids from CJHS, 8th grader Eleanor Albaugh expressed, “Yes…I want to get a good grade,” but Albaugh also talked about how she thought that studying for classes can be beneficial at times and not at others, “sometimes not, depends on what I’m doing.”
Now, seeing two different sides of studying, what about in the middle? Studying for some classes and not for others, Olivia Abernathy helps shed some insight on how she uses this method to study, “Some classes I have and other classes I don’t.”
Abernathy explains that studying only for classes she doesn’t know helps conserve her time after school to do things she actually enjoys, like video games.
At the end of the day, only about 1 out of 3 people study for tests in our school alone. A rough estimate of students at CJHS is around 910, which means roughly only 320 out of that 910 study for tests like midterms. But the question still stands, does studying really help your impact on tests?
