By Sofía Irigoyen

Reaching goals and overcoming challenges is not a simple work; you need to be really patient and persevering in order to have academic success. In the every day life we have a lot of obstacles and difficulties to reach our academic goals. Many times we feel stressed or frustrated when we have bad grades or when they were not what we had expected. However, all these problems have solutions.

First of all, everybody has different challenges and also a variaty of skills and strategies to overcome their difficulties. In addition, everyone must find which are their own strategies in order to reach their goals.

Afterwards, the most significant challenges in our lives, about academics, are exams and projects. In my opinion these two things can drive crazy any student, because the most of the times these two types of works are really stressful. Furthermore, students when they have exams spend lots of days studying heavy and long books to succeed in their exams, or they spend reading lots of information on the Internet to present a wonderful project. The fact is that many times they get overwhelmed and they don´t receive the grades they had expected.

On the other hand, there are many strategies they can use to study more quietly and relaxed; they can select the best information of what they have and only keep with the best of the best, then they can sum up all the information in order to be more easy to read and to keep it in mind. However, they can use colors and pictures to make the projects or the summaries, more funny and colorful.

What is more, every person can try different strategies and then find the one that is more useful for he or she, because some people keep better in their brains, key words, others colorful objects or others, pictures.

All in all, we must overcome our challenges by finding good strategies to improve our academic skills, reach our goals, and have better grades.