School tips?
I'm a sophomore in high school, and I will admit, I'm pretty smart, but I don't apply myself. I know I can do better than what I'm doing, I'm just really lazy and I'm wasting my academic abilities at this point. I'm taking all AP, AP Prep and honors classes, and I have a 3.1 GPA. I know that isn't horrible to most, but I know I can do so much better than that. My problem is that I am a huge procrastinator, I don't apply myself, and I do honestly slack off. I just have so many problems motivating myself. I come up with plans to study, and they work for a couple of weeks, but once a class gets hard(usually math) I just give up. It doesn't help that I have an Algebra 2 teacher that doesn't teach (I'm not just making excuses, I'm dead serious), and it's even harder for me to motivate myself when I don't understand something, because I usually pick things up pretty quickly. Any tips on how to get my head out of the gutter and actually get motivated to bring my grades up? I really try, I just fail horrendously. Could you help me come up with a study plan?
These are my classes iF it helps:
AP bio
AP world history
AP Prep English
Honors Algebra 2
Spanish 2
Next year I'm taking 4 AP classes so I really need to get it together, I'm taking AP US History, AP English lit and comprehension, AP Chemistry, and AP human geography (any tips on these classes would be greatly appreciated)