7 things that are more important than your grade point in the study

Posted by Ketrin on May 8th, 2018

There's the thing.

Finally, you hold it in your hand. After so many years. After so much work. Finally, you have made it.

There it is your testimony.

And a really good one too. Your grades are great and your grade average is really great. With a big smile on your face, you examine this one document for which you have taken so many hardships. The reward for a strenuous study. Your long-awaited goal.

And after two seconds you ask yourself: And that was it?

Unfortunately yes.

Many students are still mistakenly assuming that their grades are the most important thing in their studies - but this rumor has not been true for a long time. What personnel really look out for in the application process, I have already shown in the article on a website here. (Little hint: notes do not play a big role).

But even what your potential employer thinks about you and your grades is not that important. It is only important what you can take from your studies in the long term and what will do you good for a lifetime. And that has little to do with your grade average. Actually, it has nothing to do with it.

There are other things.

These 7 things are more important than your grade average


Yes, your grades are important. But: you are not the most important in your studies. There are things that count more - because they bring you more. Here are seven pieces of it:

1. Personal development

Every person who consciously decides to study and invest lifetime pursues a higher-level goal: further development. Every student wants to improve while at the university. Become smarter. Getting better. Become happier.

And at the top of this development is your personal development. How do you manage to develop yourself as a personality? How can you promote your best traits? How do you manage to get the most out of your intelligence and understanding? If you use your studies to develop yourself personally, that time is the best investment of your life.

2. Learning ability

Your study is not just for the purpose of teaching you tons of expertise. Rather, it's about learning how to learn. And: Your goal should be that you learn to teach yourself new things. Without a university Without a professor. Without fellow students. Self-employed.

When you develop a productive learning ability while studying, there are no limits to your performance. Your potential becomes infinite and you can spend all your life dealing with new, interesting things. Because you have learned how to acquire these things on your own. And that makes you unbeatable.

3. Independent work

In addition to an independent ability to learn first-class students have another ability that puts every cut into the shade: independent work.

People who can independently tackle, work on and complete new, previously unknown tasks are rarely found. Accordingly hot they are in demand on the job market (and everywhere else). As you study a quick mind and learn to act courageously and resolutely, you become a doer par excellence.

4. Social competence

There is no room for egoists in our networked and work-sharing society. Being good at a job is no longer enough if you want to get started in a job with responsibility immediately after your studies. In addition, you need some social skills.

By that I do not mean that you can tell good jokes or drink a lot of beer, but: It's about what you can respond appropriately to your environment. You have to be able to listen. Can explain. Be a team player. Understand the interests of others. To develop an honest compassion. Act ethically. It's all about this. However, if you care exclusively about you (and your grades), those social skills will wither away.

5. Analytical skills

No matter what you do after graduation, it will not get any easier. Your tasks are getting more and more complex and the problems you face are getting bigger and bigger. But if you have worked on your analytical approach during your studies, it will not be a problem for you.

Analytical thinking has a bad reputation. Academics are often ridiculed for objectively considering situations and then analyzing them into their individual parts. This ability is worth gold and will open many doors in your later working life. Especially to the heart of your boss.

6. Transferability

If you rely solely on examinations in your exams to retrieve memorized definitions and standard examples, you might be awarded a university degree - in real life, this "strategy" will not do you any good. In the real world, memorized things do not help you. Here, understanding and transfer services are required.

You have to learn how to apply well-known methods, processes, and models in new situations. You have to draw conclusions, recognize connections and transfer your knowledge. Otherwise, it will only remain in the theoretical part of your head and will not help you.

7. Self-motivation

If there is one thing that successful students have to handle, it is self-motivation. Every student struggles with himself almost every day. To the lecture, yes or no? Learning, yes or no? Continue learning, yes or no? Write a thesis, yes or no?

Self-motivation is the key student skill. If during your studies, you succeed in overcoming your own procrastination and persistently working on your goals, you will not only lead a happier and happier student life - you will also become an active person and can live your life according to your ideas shape. If you manage to kick yourself in the ass regularly and motivate yourself from task to task, you will be successful in life - otherwise not.

Conclusion

Your grade point may not be the most important thing for you in your studies. There are other things that count more; Things that have a much more positive impact on your life after university.

Stop squinting at your notes. Because as soon as you place higher goals into your focus while studying and do not chase after the next note with drooling over your mouth, your student life will change fundamentally. You become a smart, self-confident student who understands the true meaning of studying.

I promise you one thing: as soon as you stop trying to optimize your scores and do everything you can to sustainably improve and promote your personal development, you'll be a lot better off than you ever imagined. Good grades are a logical consequence of your new way of working - but by far not the best.

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