Learn to Cooperate with your teacher. Let's be honest, teachers can be a pain. If you and your teachers(s) don't have a good relationship, try to improve it. Learn what she likes in a student and what makes her happy. Keep a track of your progress your grades and your participation in class. These things count for your personal growth too. If you know your progress, it will boost your confidence and hence motivate you to study more. Stay firm. If your friends ask to hang out when you have homework to do, stay home and do the work. It's better that way. Sometimes you should learn to say NO. Give yourself rewards after completing a particular task like one subject for that week or so. Make your studies fun at times and then try to learn them or rather remember them. Make a tune for the poems may be some current songs music that you like and then try to recall the poem. Say it loud or read out what you have learnt to your friends or your mother so that you will remember your own words when you write during examinations. Say a prayer before you sit to study and make it a routine. Get your favorite set of pens or pencils and select a calm and quite place and remove all the distractions from you.