There is no set way to survive the long and painful journey that is high school. It is not like baking a cake, where you add milk, flower, eggs, then bake at 240 degrees and you have your product. Doing well in high school isn't something you learn from a textbook, it is something you learn by experiencing it, and working towards it. The 3 most important qualities to have to do well in high school is having drive, being able to be flexible with change, and being organized. If you can develop and learn these qualities, you are guaranteed to have success in highschool .
With everything you do in life you have purpose. Without purpose all activities seem like a chore with no reward or fun out of it. This is why drive is one of the most important qualities a person who wants to succeed in high school can have. Think it this way, if a child's parents organized an easter egg hunt for the child's friends but they told you that you can't eat any of the chocolate that you find, would the child still want to do it? Probably not. No Passion, no fun. All your school work will seem as if you are in a maze with no exit and no reward. .
The world is constantly changing and the only thing that people can do is change with it. Like wise, teachers are always changing their minds on assignment due dates, class seating, or may even change the format of the essays you're used to writing to something completely different to a way you've never written before. In a situation like this, all a student can do is go with the flow and adjust. Someone without flexibility would have extreme difficulty adjusting to new things. Now you're probably thinking "What does being double jointed have to do with doing well in high school? " I am not talking about that kinda flexibility! Flexible in the sense that you are a go-with-the-flow kind of person. Therefore, because people who are not flexible with change have adjusting to new things, they would not do as well in high school as someone who can adjust to any thing at any given time.