What Are Your Academic Strengths

People have many different strengths in their lives. According to the strengthsfinder my top five five strength are input, harmony, maximize, communication, and responsibility. I will be utilizing my strengths in many different ways whether it's at work, home or school. While at work, home, or school I will use my input with making different decision. Utilizing input is very important for so many different reason.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I believe because of my experience that set the foundation for the student that I am today. My brother started Kindergarten and my mother would drop me off at the babysitter so she could go to school. My first “academic memory” is remembering my mother sitting at the table saying she had homework, my brother not wanting to be bothered because he had homework. So when my mom didn’t have school and my brother had school together WE did homework. That became our time together, she didn’t send me to school, she created school at the kitchen table. She had books, worksheets, cards, and my own folder. My mother loves to remind me how I use to tell everyone that I didn’t go to preschool. Fast Forward five years, my friends were getting grounded for their grades and asking me why I never got in trouble for mine. My friends and I spoke with my mom and her reply was, “I believe if you do your best, try your hardest, and do everything you can to be the best you can- I don’t believe in punishing Bethany. Now, If Bethany didn’t try her best, try her hardest, do everything she could to get the best grades she can then we will look at why.” My friend looked at me and said “Oh, you're lucky! I wish I had your mom!” I never shared that all my grades were A’s, because I did my best, I tried my hardest and I did everything I could to get the best grades I could and I still do. If I need to study for 3 hours, If I need to seek out a teacher, plan a study group with friends or students who can help, I’ll do what I need to do. I appreciate the academic recognitions as they continue to motivate me. I am not afraid of hard work and I believe this will benefit the National Honor

Just like with many aspects of myself many things helped in the contribution of my reading and writing skills. It was a bit difficult in the beginning learning to read and write in English since I learned to read and write in Spanish first. Both languages being pretty similar kind of screwed me up as a child so it took me longer to learn to read and write in English. Which in turn is why I was put in the ELD for many years. I did eventually test out of it before starting middle school, but that’s when my dislike for reading and writing started. Being in those programs they made us read and write even more than the normal students would. I would think now that all that work should have made me better at reading and writing but in turn it made me resent those very things and not any better at them. Another thing that made it worse was my family status, things in my home were complicated to say the least, but the way I was affected academically was because neither of my parents really cared for my education, so I was never made to read or write at home. Those two main things are where my dislike for both things originated. Since I never thought they were important other than to just get a grade in a class. All these things helped contribute to the type of reader and writer that I am today.

Upon completion of the StrengthsFinder survey, I discovered that my five greatest strengths were Achiever, Discipline, Responsibility, Relator, and Competition. However, I was skeptical about the initial results until I read what each strength entails. I found most of the information given to be accurate. According to the description of those strengths, I discovered that I use them daily without realizing it.

For example, my grade in English, 78.6 percent was caused by my slow transition into college level writing. My grammar on the writing assignments is something I struggle with, because I write the way I talk. I am trying to work on my grammar by using the proof-reader from paperrater.com. I am also trying to work on my paper writing skills by doing a lot of pre-writing strategies. Also I did not do as well as I wanted on the math placement test because I did not prepare myself properly for the test. I was under the impression that the test was going to be on majority of the things we learned in class but to my surprise, the test had trigonometry on it. I think if I had better prepared myself, I would have done better and placed in the class I actually wanted. My time management skills needs a lot of improvement, my financial and professional goals were not completed because of this. I was so focused on completing homework and ended up completely forgetting about those two

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Ever since I was young, I had a strong will to learn. I was curious even at a young age, and made it my goal to do the best as I could in every element of my life. From my academics to my extracarriculars, I strove to do my best. I came in the top percentage of my classes every year, and gained good testing scores. My grades were all As, and below that made me feel devistated. At one point, a B on a report card

I sometimes do somewhat okay on standardized tests because I almost never prepare for the tests but whenever I do prepare for it I feel like I did really good because I study what we did the entire semester or school year. I consider myself an okay test taker because I rarely study for them but sometimes I do, I know that's not going to be a good thing in college or for the rest of high school. I used to be an excellent test taker in middle school and elementary school but I just think that I've been slugging off in high school and I haven't completed all of my work so whenever we have tests I never know what the answers are so I almost always fail them. I mostly always forget about tests, so the night before every test I'm unaware that there

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I currently hold the equivalent knowledge and expertise of an NVQ Level 2 qualification and feel I have equivalent expertise to what expectations would be deemed appropriate as of having experience myself. I am set to finish my NVQ Level 2 on Friday 22nd July as a final completion date confirmed. As addition to this working within my role and department has developed my customer service skills to an excellent level, developed in a dynamic fast pace working environment, attending regular team meetings, in house training and consistent communication throughout the team. In 2015 when I graduated from school achieving a C grade in English Language and English Literature and also currently hold

Back in elementary school and middle school, I was always the student who received the highest grades. That could be because I was always forced to study by my parents. Back then, breaks and sports were rewards after hours of memorizing the multiplication tables or reviewing the vocabulary from the science textbook. After hours of studying with little time to spare for other activities, it became a daily thing for me to score high in tests and quizzes. I strongly believed that studying was one of the things I was best at. That notion persisted until I entered high school.

Applying to this program has consumed my heart, mind and soul for a while and I hoped for no weaknesses or faults of my own to decrease my chances of acceptance. Needless to say, I was most disappointed to discover that my combined GRE score of 303 was two points shy of your average score of 305. Though my overall score (particularly my quantitative score) is disappointing, it is not surprising given my lack of recent practice with certain math concepts (i.e. geometry), especially in comparison to my verbal and writing skills, which I consider to be growing strengths in my ongoing academic development, and are put to daily use as a higher education practitioner.

My current strengths include; my honesty and passion towards my work. I have always been positive and confident regarding my aims and targets. Along with these, I am a good decision maker, due to which I can make right and quick decisions. Moreover, I have ability to motivate others and do team work. I am also a responsible person, when I make a target; I work day and night to achieve my goal.

Through my adolescent years, I started realizing the impact that one person can have on an individual has the potential to be substantial. Experiences such as volunteering at a two week overnight camp for children with special needs and teaching religious education to third graders. It was Camp Soar that introduced me to a boy with downs syndrome that would later lead to him being one of my best friends. His name is Danny, and it was him who motivated me to pursue a career in helping people on a first hand basis. After spending a lot of one-on-one time with Danny, I quickly came to realize that I had been enhancing his everyday social/life skills for him to lead a more self-sufficient life. We worked on independent skills like smart shopping, taking the PACE bus, and appropriate social conversations. Thereupon I knew I was good at helping others and could make a difference to others around me. I believe social work is a good fit for me because of my drive to help all people live their lives in a state of overall well being.

The education we receive today holds the power to shape the individuals we will be in the future. Not only does our education aid our choices throughout school, but also the choices we make in our personal lives like where we choose to work and how we portray ourselves to society. Personally, I have enjoyed my educational experience. I have enjoyed learning new concepts and interacting with new people. Of course, there are obstacles along the way. However, these obstacles have given me the opportunity to realize my strengths and weaknesses and learn to improve in both areas. As a student, I hold onto my perseverance, seek guidance from influential figures in my life, and embrace my challenges to which all contribute to my hope to become the finest version of myself.