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Challenges are normal occurrences in life. No single person can say that he or she has never encountered a challenge. From the time you were born as a baby, you struggled to crawl, to walk, and to talk. As a toddler, you struggled to contain your tantrums when you did not get what you wanted. As you added years in your life, you began to notice that the challenges you experienced became more varied, complex, and difficult than before. This health crisis situation that we are experiencing is a challenge in itself. We sometimes struggle to remember and apply all the necessary health and safety protocols from authorities. We struggle to avoid going to places if it is not necessary. We struggle to find safe ways to keep in touch with family, friends, and loved ones while observing physical distancing. Even the learning setup is a challenge not only for you but for your classmates, parents, family members, teachers, and friends, as well. Thus, everyone experiences challenge even before COVID-19. Could you imagine a life without challenges? A life where you don’t have to overcome any challenge at all? Regardless of its kind, we must constantly equip ourselves with ways on how we can rise above these challenges and deal with them positively. We have to develop effective study habits for the attainment of exemplary performance not only in school but in life later on. Below are the suggested strategies or ways to help you achieve academic success: S - Set your academic goal for this school year. T - Track your development through daily and weekly study plans. R - Recognize the need for help or assistance from your parents, teachers, and other adults in relation to your academic needs. A - Accomplish your learning tasks ahead of time. T - Thoroughly check the quality, quantity, and presentation of your outputs before submission. E - Exercise efficiency in the use of time, materials, and efforts in achieving academic goals. G - Gather all possible resources from books and other resources in order to have a better understanding of the topic in your classes. Y - Yearn to perform better and remember your motivation, study skills, and study habits. Likewise, as much as possible learn to avoid the following: W - Wasting time or doing irrelevant activities while having classes like playing online games, chatting, watching movies or TV series, and daydreaming A - Allowing peers to dictate your plans and actions S – Stressing yourself to the point that you cannot function well T – Thoughts that are negative like the difficulty of the subject, the chance of failure, and inability to learn new lessons E – Exhibiting unhealthy behavior (e.g. poor sleeping habits, excessive use of gadgets, not taking time to relax) Keep in mind that the strategies discussed above cannot be mastered overnight. All study habits which are proven effective and efficient take time, hard work, and practice. Whenever you take it upon yourself to apply the strategies seriously, you will begin to see that the challenges you encounter within and outside the school setting are not as overwhelming or discouraging as before. Navigating life, with or without the presence of a crisis situation such as the Covid-19, becomes more manageable if you are familiar with the strategies or ways that will lead you towards academic success. For adolescent learners like you, some of the most needed study habits in your age group are time management, note-taking, managing distractions, doing advance readings, and of course listening attentively, even if face-to-face classes, for now, are temporarily not being conducted. While it is ideal to practice every single effective study habit, all learners have preferential study habits depending on their learning styles and personal circumstances. Similarly, avoiding unhelpful routines that hinder a learner from academic success also takes practice. It takes a lot of determination, focus, and self-control to nurture your ability to say “no” to distractions and unnecessary activities, especially now that you do a lot of studying by yourself because of the pandemic.