Excelling in your academics is a key feature of success. To excel in your studies there are some criteria and guidelines which you need to follow to achieve success.

1. Know your Weaknesses: Some students find it difficult to assess their weak points. To discover your weaknesses, try evaluating yourself and check the subject you don't like most and make sure you align yourself with it put more attention on it and you will get a positive result.

2. Avoid Procrastination: This has been a major factor that causes failure to many students as some students keep on shifting their reading time to do some irrelevant things. So in other to achieve great success avoid procrastination as time waits for no man.

3. Create a Reading Menu: As a student, you are obliged to create a timetable for yourself, make sure you keep to it and always make sure you don't deviate from it.

4. Join Groups that are helpful around you: Joining educative clubs, helps in boosting your performance because they will engage you in educative activities.

5. Avoid Bad Friends: Always make sure that the friends you keep, are people who will better your future and not those who will bring you down academically. 

6. Always keep a Good Mindset: Keeping a good mind is very fundamental in a student's life. When writing your exams always make sure that you keep your mind off exam malpractice and write your exams with confidence