Play your way to an A+

Playing a sport is not only beneficial towards your health, but it can also give you the boost you need academically. Research has shown the relationship between physical activity sports and academic grades, and students who are healthier tend to do better on standardized tests.  In a 2009 study by the Kansas State High School Activities Association, students who participated in sports performed better in standardized tests, had a higher graduation rate and higher overall GPA  This could be due to the academic requirements that are needed to be a part of the team, and also that the mind is much healthier and active, when you are physically that ways as well. Here are some academic as well as non academic benefits of playing a sport:

1) Increases your concentration powers and focusing abilities. As you are playing, all you think about is the proceeding game, this can very much help you when you sit to study and can prevent you from distractions.

2) Sports are generally team-based efforts, so you learn about how to co-ordinate with others as well as leadership and management skills.

3) Studies have also shown that students, who are into sports, tend to work much harder in the classroom, as they have a very active mind and body.

4) Sports also has other benefits like, it reduces the chances of obesity, improves flexibility and coordination and helps keep your body fit and strong. 

5) Another really important benefit of playing sports in school is your social life. Students who take part in sports have a lot more friends, as sports are generally team games. So, if you are new to school and don’t have any friends, just start going for practice and you’ll end up making a lot of friends.

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New Year's Resolution: Improve your Artistic Skills

Art is one of the most diverse and interesting fields to pursue, and there is a lot of scope and potential in this creative career path. Having good artistic skills, is not only useful in terms of understanding everyday things and learning visually, but it also opens a large number of doors for the future. For these reasons, we at SkoolShop believe that improving your artistic skills should be one of your resolutions for the New Year. 

Here are a list of advantages for taking up art or trying to improve yourself in this field:

1) Enhances your Imagination: Art helps you think out of the box and in a highly creative and imaginative manner. One does not simply copy art or know it, art is something which has to do with the imagination and is therefore enables kids to create something which does not exist.

2) Enables Focus and Concentration: Art enhances your focusing abilities and is also vital for hand-eye coordination and strategic thinking. 

3) Learning Visually: Almost 1 in 2 children are visual learners, therefore if they have the ability to sketch and produce, they can even convert boring text material into fascinating images. This could really help in the future for higher studies which are complex in nature. 

4) Strengthen Your Mind: Studies have shown that kids who take up art, are more likely to do better in Math and Science in the future. So, even if you want to become an engineer or a doctor, it would be much more beneficial to have taken up art as a hobby. 

These are just some of the advantages of taking up art or improving your artistic skills, and we hope you decide to take it up as one of your New Year's Resolutions. 

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New Years Resolution: Improve Your Grammar

In a world where information and communication with others is key, your grammar skills are highly relevant and proportional to the amount of success you will achieve later on. Having good grammar skills, is not only helpful in your everyday life when it comes to speaking, writing and reading, but also helps you when you go out looking for a job or running your own business in the real world. This is why, we at SkoolShop believe that improving your grammar, and avoiding common grammatical errors  should be one of your New Years Resolutions for this year. Here are a few ways with which you can improve your grammar: 

1) Understand The Basics: 

It is highly important to know the different building blocks of grammar like nouns, pronouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. There is a lot of rich information on these topics in books as well as on the internet. Click here for a website where you can really learn and understand the fundamentals of grammar. 

2) Pay Attention:

When listening to someone talk, or watching a movie, you should pay attention to the way the sentences are formed and structured. You can also listen to the correct pronunciations and implement them in your daily life. 

3) Practice, practice and more PRACTICE!!

Practice makes perfect, and this definitely applies to improving your grammatical skills. The more you practice, the better you will get. You will find tons of websites with free grammar tests and analysis and should take advantage of the internet when it comes to practicing. 

4) Find Someone to Look Up to: 

Find a mentor or teacher who can help you out with grammatical tips and tricks if not on a daily, then at least on a weekly basis. You need someone who you can communicate with, and who can help you correct your mistakes and improve upon them. 

These are just a few ways to help you get started with this vast topic, and you can get started with a couple of websites we have found, that can really help you. Click here for a website which is solely dedicated towards improving grammar and is also free, and here for an interesting article, that can help you with a few websites. 

Since these skills are required in all professions, we highly recommend that you take up improving your Grammar as one of your New Years Resolutions. 

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New Years Resolution: Improving Vocabulary

In these modern times, communication is highly important, and your communication and language skills are one of the most important factors in helping you with jobs and career paths for your future. Having a good vocabulary along with well-versed communication skills, is really helpful when it comes to understanding the things around you and networking with people from diverse cultures and different backgrounds. This is why, we at SkoolShop believe improving your vocabulary should be one of your New Years Resolutions. Here are are a few ways with which you can improve your vocabulary:

1) One of the best ways to improve your knowledge of words and their meanings, is to read. Reading helps you tremendously with the knowledge aspect of communication, as you get to learn new words, their meanings and also how they are placed and in what context. Reading books, magazines, newspapers etc. gives you a lot of knowledge about the language along with much required general knowledge facts as well, and that is why it is recommended as one of the most vital hobbies that children should develop so that they can carry this habit forward into the future. 

2) Apart from reading, watching visual movies, television shows, news shows, etc. is the next step towards improving your vocabulary. Not only do these visual aids provide you with new words and phrases, but they also teach you how to pronounce those words, without making any grammatical errors. 

3) Another way of improving your vocabulary, is to constantly keep alert and listen to people around you. Listen to your professors, friends, public speakers, etc. and learn from them. Everyone has something to say, and you can really learn things if you just listen. 

These are just a few ways, with which you can improve your vocabulary and communication skills, and here are a couple of websites to help you do the same:

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Since these skills are required in all professions, we highly recommend that you take up improving your Vocabulary as one of your New Years Resolutions. 

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New Years Resolution: Logical Thinking

Logical thinking is one of the most helpful and important skills you can develop as a student, which can  help you for the rest of your life. Logical thinking, helps you analyze situations and treat stressful times in a calm, collected, calculated and organized manner. It helps you assess questions, and come up with relevant and strategic answers, rather than emotional ones. This is why we at Skoolshop believe that improving your logical thinking, should be one of your New Years Resolutions. 

Here are a few ways and exercises with which you can enable a more logical thinking approach for yourself:  

1) Make your mind up about logical thinking and reasoning. You should make a conscious decision about the fact that you will think logically from now on-wards. Once this thought is set in your mind, you can keep applying it in your daily life. 

2) You should be patient while analyzing and assessing different situations everyday. This will really help you by preventing rash and emotional decisions. 

3) Thinking in an innovative and creative manner can really help you with logical thinking. When you think creatively and differently from others, and come up with solutions, it improves the may your mind works, as, to come up with these solutions, you need to be thinking with good reason and logic. 

4) Learning from your mistakes, is one of the keys to logical thinking. Everyone makes mistakes, but once you realize the mistake, you should not make it again. To avoid repetition of mistakes, one must think about it logically and reasonably and realize where the mistake was made and how to avoid it in the future. 

5) Test yourself everyday with different games like Sudoku, crosswords and other mind challenging and logical games. Also, you could participate or at least view debates and arguments to help improve the way you would think in those situations.  

These are just a few ways with which you can stimulate your mind to think better, faster and more logically. Furthermore, these are a couple of websites you can check out everyday for improving your thinking: 

1) Play Sudoku online - Click here to find tons of Sudoku puzzles you can play for free.

2) Play Math and Logic Games - Click here to play some amazing games with numbers and logic. 

We hope you decide to take up logical thinking and analysis as a New Year's Resolution, as it will be something you can apply for the rest of your life. 

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New Years Resolution: Improve your Scientific Knowledge

Studying science is like studying the building blocks of life. Everything that you interact with on a daily basis, whether its watching Television, surfing the internet, playing a game or even heating your food and taking a shower, is all a result of science and advancements. To gain a better understanding as to how the world works and why, we recommend that, one of your New Years Resolutions must be to improve your scientific knowledge. 

Why should you be updated with Science and its applications?

Science is broadly divided into Physics, Chemistry and Biology, with each of these sciences teaching you a range of different things and why things happen the way they do. Here are a few facts that you learn about by keeping updated with these sciences:

Biology: Is the study of everything alive. It not only teaches you about plants and animals, but it also tells you about the human body and how it functions. Biologists look to cure diseases and make life simple for all of us, the least we can do is remain updated with their hard work, so we know what to look forward to in the future. 

Chemistry: Chemistry is like the central science, and it is involved in physics as well as biology. Chemical reactions, chemical bonding and various other chemistry related processes are highly important for various different things that take place in the world. Keeping updated with this science, can really help you understand things you did not before, and why certain things happen, the way they do. 

Physics: Physics is a science which can explain millions of things to you. It is the answer to a lot of amazing things about our universe and the way it works. It teaches you about different occurrences and phenomena in the universe, and physics is a subject that can satisfy the curious mind. 

How can you keep updated with science?

Here are a couple of websites with articles and stories that are updated on daily basis, that you can keep going through from time to time, and learn something new about science: 

1) http://www.sciencemag.org/

2) http://www.sciencedaily.com/

We wish you well with your New Years Resolutions, and hope you choose improving your scientific knowledge as one of them. 

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New Years Resolution: Study Harder

Its finally 2013, and the New Year has begun, and so has all the unreal New Year's Resolutions. These resolutions are seldom kept by people, but the people who do keep them have a very strong willpower and will do well in life. 

The best resolution which is actually possible to keep, is definitely the simple resolution of working and studying harder. Assess the previous year, and think about all the things you could have done better and try to plan out a few steps to help you improve yourself. As a student, the best resolution is definitely to study harder, not just for your parents and teachers, but for yourself. Here are a few reasons why you should keep the resolution promise you make to yourself:

1) New years are like fresh sheets with nothing written on them: we have the chance to imagine what we want and make plans toward achieving what we dream of. 

2) New Years Resolutions help you at least recognize the areas in your life which need improvement, so you can start working on it. For example: If you are getting lower grades in Mathematics, maybe this year you can give more time towards that subject. 

3) If you are able to successfully keep your resolutions, its an amazing feeling. You gain a lot of willpower, and have a sense of accomplishment which can help you tremendously for future aspirations. 

These are just a few of the reasons to keep resolutions, but, setting resolutions is much easier than actually following them. Here are a few tips on how to keep your resolutions: 

1) Keep your self constantly motivated, everyday of the week. 

2)  Break your big goal down into smaller ones. If you plan to achieve something by the end of the year, think of these mini-goals that will help you keep tabs on your success. Outline monthly goals or even weekly targets, so you know exactly where you are.

3)  Track your progress.

4) Carve out time in your schedule. Organize your day in a well maintained and detailed manner with a daily schedule that will help you figure out how to make time for yourself. 

Finally, when the end of the year approaches, be sure to assess what you achieved and enjoy your success before making new plans.

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