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| How to Excel Correspondence Courses | 4. You have to explain your situation to your parents. The majority of parents accept the idea about school, but some...are not as positive as you want them to be. You should explain to your parents and family what you’re doing, than you will be able to have a calm study time when you get home from school. But make sure that they realize what a correspondence course means; they understand that you don't have a teacher to help you, and there will be situations when you may not have necessary resources. This time your parents need to be active in helping you to learn, by sending you to a library on the weekend.
5. Be Proactive. Studying at correspondence course means you receive your mini-assignments and send them to your correspondence teacher every week. Since you have heavy study loads at school and your family commitments, relationships and social lives, it is important for you to be proactive. If a work is due on Friday, and it's only Monday, do it immediately as once it's out of the way, you will not have to be concerned about it. In case you have a big assignment due in a month, try to get a huge part of it done in the first few weeks, and then plan to have it finished a week before to the due date. Planning your work this way you won't be cramming and working till the early hours of the morning trying to finish all your tasks.
 6. Take away all things that distract you. As a correspondence course is self-motivated, it is very easy to get distracted and lose concentration. This can occur by seeing friends and talking to them, getting distracted by music, or coming across some websites and not doing your work. In fact the best way to prevent getting distracted is to remove the distractions. Take away all music devices, when using the Internet or computer, don't go astray your scheduled task, if a friend comes over to you, ask if you can talk afterward and explain that you are full of activity. (Most friends will understand). In case you become distracted, you should save your work, and pick up doing the scheduled task later, when you will be able to concentrate.
7. Use resources. Whether you have access to a library or to a computer and Internet, make sure that you use it to research, study in and type up assignments. There is no sense in having resources and not using them.
8. Study, Study, Study...Relax. Make sure that you make as much of an effort to keep up with your work, that when your holidays and breaks come around, you take full advantage of them. In case you go to a camp, relax and don't worry about school.
9. Be satisfied with your study efforts and don't be too rough on yourself. Studying at correspondence course can be difficult, and it takes self-restraint, strength of mind and self-confidence. There will be times when your marks may fall, but other times you may get 100%. You shouldn’t be too hard on yourself if you don't do as well as you had hoped, or that you find you didn't answer a questions right.
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