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1 A. Schedule your time B. Use lists to set priorities (优先权) C. Learn how to read D. Take good notes and use them E. Get everything organised F. Take every chance to studyThe kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn. Here, according to education experts and students themselves, are the secrets of straight-A students. 1. Among the students we interviewed, study times were strictly a matter of personal preference. Some worked late at night when the house was quiet. Some learned new words while brushing their teeth. Others awoke early. Still others studied as soon as they came home from school when the work was fresh in their minds. All agreed, however, on the need for consistency. 2. In high school, Jim McCray ran track, played soccer and was in the band and orchestra. “I was so busy, I couldn’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything right where I could put my hands on it, ”he says. He maintains two folders—one for the day’s assignments, the other for papers completed and graded. 3. “The best class I ever took, ”says Christopher Campbell, who graduated from high school last spring, “was speed-reading. I not only increased my words per minute but also learned to look at a book’s table of contents, graphs and pictures first. Then, when I began to read, I had a sense of the material and solved the secret of good reading that an active reader is the one who continually asks questions that lead to a full understanding of the author’s message. ” | 
