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La Martiniere College, Lucknow - Careers Fair 2021
Day 2 - Session 4. Defence

La Martiniere Careers' Fair - 2021 Day 2 Session 4 Defence Day 2 Session 4 Defence

Prayers for Teachers, Students, Schools, and Classrooms

Teacher Prayers and Other School Prayers

apple on a biblePrayer is especially important for those that educate others (the stress alone is worth praying for!). These teacher prayers come from a variety of Catholic and other Christian sources. They are for teachers, and for things and people that teachers might pray for (such as students). Besides providing prayers for teachers, we offer prayers for other school employees as well. They work for daycare workers, parents, babysitters, principals, and act as insurance that you and those you care for are being prayed for. Many schools, elementary, junior high, and high school, use these prayers during their morning announcements and in classrooms.

Prayer For Patience and Gentleness
Bestow on me, O Lord,
a genial spirit and unwearied forbearance;
a mild, loving, patient, heart;
kindly looks, pleasant cordial speech, and manners
in the exchanges of daily life;
that I may give offence to none,
but as much as in lies,
live in charity with all men.
Johann Arndt, (1555-1621)

Prayer For Patience and Gentleness
Bestow on me, O Lord,
a genial spirit and unwearied forbearance;
a mild, loving, patient, heart;
kindly looks, pleasant cordial speech, and manners
in the exchanges of daily life;
that I may give offence to none,
but as much as in lies,
live in charity with all men.
Johann Arndt, (1555-1621)

Prayer For Wisdom and Understanding
Teach me, O my Lord Jesus,
instruct me that I may learn from Thee
what I ought to teach concerning thee.
Anglican Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645)

Prayer to Follow God Completely
O My God
give me your grace
so that the things of this earth
and things more naturally pleasing to me,
may not be as close as you are to me.
Keep my eyes, my ears, my heart
from clinging to the things of this world.
Break my bonds, raise my heart.
Keep my whole being fixed on you.
Let me never lose sight of you;
and while I gaze on you,
let my love of you grow more and more every day.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

A Prayer of St. Augustine
O, God,
Grant us in all our duties your help;
in all our perplexities, your guidance;
in all our dangers, your protection;
and in all our sorrows, your peace.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
our body, and our blood,
our life and our nourishment. Amen.
St. Augustine (354-430)

A Prayer For God's Inspiration
Father,
May everything we do
begin with your inspiration
and continue with your saving help.
Let our work always find its origin in you
and through you reach completion.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen
The Liturgy of the Hours, Week I

Prayer for the Light of God
O Lord, thou greatest and most true Light,
whence the light of the day doth spring!
O Light,
which dost lighten every man that cometh into the world!
O thou Wisdom of the eternal Father,
Enlighten my mind,
that I may see only those things that please thee,
and may be blinded to all other things.
Grant that I may walk in thy ways,
and that nothing else may be light and pleasant.
John Bradford (1510-1555)

10 useful tips to get a first-class degree

Suraj Oyewale http://www.10minuteswith.com

One of the most popular questions I get from my younger ones and mentees who are about to or have just gained admission into university is what they have to do to graduate with a first-class degree after their studies.

Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules on how to make this class of degree. What works for one person may not work for another. What works in one institution may not automatically work in another. The principles also differ across courses; for instance, what a Law student needs to do to make excellent grade may be a little different from what an engineering student needs to do.

I am fortunate to have graduated with one, and a good number of my friends also made the degree across different courses of study – from engineering to natural sciences to social sciences. I have also guided a couple of mentees to making decent grades in school. Below are some tips that have proved helpful from my experience, and that of friends and mentees.

1. You need a minimum level of natural brilliance.

You know yourself probably better than others. The first step is to discover your own academic ability. You can have an idea about this by looking at the grades you made in lower levels of education (elementary school, high school, A levels etc). Most times, if you did very well in those stages, you stand a good chance of repeating same – or doing better – in the university. If your performance at those levels was not outstanding, but you know deep inside you that it was below your potential, you can still go ahead to pursue a first-class degree.

2. Do you have interest in the course you want to study or have just been admitted to study?

It must be a course you are comfortable with and passionate about. This keeps the dream of getting a first-class degree going.

3. Look for students in higher levels in your department who are in the first-class bracket.

Make friends with them. Ask for mentorship. Ask them how to go about each course, how they did their own.

4. Develop a positive mindset that you can do it.

Don't listen to prophets of doom that tell you that you can never get a first-class degree. This is very common in African universities. Please don’t listen to people that instill fears in you.

5. Take your department’s handbook that shows all courses you are to offer from year one to final year.

Write down the courses, set a target of say 4.70 (in a 5 point system) or 3.75 (in a 4-point system) for yourself, and calculate what you need to score in each subject to make the targeted CGPA or GPA. Break it down further into semesters. At the beginning of each semester, set a sub-target.

6. Choose your electives wisely.

At the early years, go for the "quick-win" elective courses even if they're the least rich. At higher levels, you may begin to rank value of elective over cheapness.

7. Learn the art of taking exams.

Study the course takers. At the beginning of each course, ask your immediate seniors what the lecturer likes. This will give you an idea about how to approach exams.

8. Be an all-rounder.

Don't say you're only good in calculation and not theory. You have to learn how to be good in theory too. If it involves cramming, so be it. Being very weak in one aspect can hamper your chance of graduating with a first-class degree.

9. Target being the highest scorer in each course in your class.

At the beginning of every course, set a target to score the highest in the course among your classmates.

10. Bear in mind that a first-class degree will provide you a better employment or scholarship opportunity when you graduate.

The mere knowledge of this will make you want to make sacrifice now so as to enjoy later.

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How to Study Effectively to Prepare For Final Exams in One Week

Preparing for an exam in one week is literally possible. All you need is effective study tips for exams and follow some simple steps to be completely ready. Let’s device a plan that can help us gain good marks with the least time devotion.

How to prepare for exams in one week

Heads spinning, eyes burning, hearts racing, spines tingling; now isn’t that what the last few days before an important exam feel like? Let’s face it, most of us don’t like to study the year round, and pay a ‘visit’ to our books only when it’s the last few days before final exams. We even intelligently divide our syllabus into reachable goals for each day of the last week or so, but fail to achieve those goals due to other ‘important stuff’ to do; like an emergency call from a friend, updating Facebook status, a potential sleep attack and what not?

There are actually some simple and clever ways in which you can motivate a better atmosphere for learning.

So basically when everything that can go wrong, has gone wrong, we find ourselves with merely a couple of days, and tons to study, and start dividing our book according to what’s most important and what we are going to leave! Even though it is said that nothing can happen overnight, there are actually some simple and clever ways in which you can motivate a better atmosphere for learning and end up getting surprisingly good marks. Go through the suggestions below, to study for exams in one week effectively –

Boycott All Social Circuits: This is the time you give up all your phones and twitter and Facebook hangouts, so that you can actually concentrate on studies. Switch off your internet connection, put your phone on silent and let it be as far away from you as possible, at least till the time you are planning to bury your head in books! Research shows that most students cannot concentrate on their studies because of their messaging and phone calls, besides anything else.
Divide The Syllabus: We know how you divide your syllabus for months together, but end up crushing your own deadlines. This time, make realistic goals and make it a point to achieve them, by hook or by crook! You may have to study in the late hours, miss a couple important television shows, might even risk being called a geek by your friends, but when you fare well in your exams, nothing else is going to matter!
Eat-Sleep-Study-Repeat: No matter how important work is, food and sleep should never be compromised. The simple reason for the same is that when you don’t have enough energy in your body, you will not be able to concentrate. Eat nutritious, protein rich, low calorie food, so that you can stay fresh and active, charged and ready to achieve your goals on time. Sleeping on time and napping enough to stay fresh is also essential. There is no point cramming when your mind is asleep. You need proper food and rest in order to study well. Making up for the lost time, you need to concentrate only on studies, hence the eat-sleep-study routine! You follow it well for merely a week; you are going to get decent grades without a doubt.
Intelligent Study: Studying intelligently is very important since you only have a week. Important definitions, one-liners, formulae, dates and events need to be noted down. It’s because when you are attempting the paper, your mind actually tends to give you a visual of what you have learnt, when you have important stuff highlighted and ready to use, it is going to come handy without a doubt. Sample papers and question papers from previous years are also a great help, because you tend to understand the pattern of the exam you are about to attempt.
Discuss: If you can get over the euphoria of the sort of fun you may have in a group study and actually think about learning, you will realize that there is nothing better than that when you simply have a week left. T’s because when you have doubts, you can ask others, and when they have any you can help. This way, knowledge will be shared and well circulated, which will help you grasp and retain information better. Keeping in teacher’s contacts handy and asking them for a little extra help can work wonders too.
Find Your Happy Hours: This is really important. You need to find out the time of the day when you can study your best and work maximum in that given time. Some people are good with morning hours, while some can only study in the night time. There are also people who can study all day long! You have to find out what time zone you fall in and make the most of that time; in these last few precious preparation days.
Breathe A Little: No matter how bad your case and you decide to study it all, in just one week, you need to chill out a little too. This is so that your brain is not over-pressurized and you don’t black out right before the exam. Listen to your favorite music, indulge in comfort food once in a while or take workout breaks, so that your mind and body become re-energized and ready to face the exam properly. If and when headaches occur, avoid medicines; try simple remedies like a good oil massage or a hot cup of coffee, so that you can study to the best of your potential and score well in your exams.

Try these simple tips and be surprised by the difference it can make in your grades. All the best!

by Rajeev Kumar