Here come finals, here comes finals, right down the school hallways.

In addition with the holiday season excitement, finals come for students before they leave for winter break

Finals are given the last week of school before holiday break. There is a popular tool to help students calculate what they need for their finals. Although they can be stressful, tips and tricks are available to help with decreasing your worries.

Finals are given the last three days before winter break. The final schedule for the week of Dec. 19 consists of the following: Monday is third and sixth-period finals, followed by Tuesday with second and fifth-period finals. Lastly, students have first, fourth and seventh period finals on Wednesday, before they leave for the two-week break.

The popular life-saving tool used by students is the Final Grade Calculator. These can be found by simply searching “Final Grade Calculator” on your search engine. You can find a number of these on your Chromebook. The way this helpful tool works is by taking a student’s current grade percentage in the class, the ideal percentage the student wants in the class and what percentage the final is worth of their grade. Once you enter that information, it calculates the percentage you need to get on your final to receive the score you intentionally wanted.

Although this is a popular grade-finding tool, some students think it isn’t so helpful mentally. “I tend to look at it but I don’t worry about it because it can cause me to slack. I start thinking “Oh, I can keep an A if I get a 65 percent. But I know that shouldn’t be my goal. Personally, I think teachers shouldn’t put them out because it makes kids slack more,” said sophomore, Makayla Mcmichael.

Thinking less and studying more seems to really help students around this time of year. “study, study, study, don’t procrastinate and just focus because that’s all you can do. Everything that is on the final is previous things we have learned. We can all get good grades, we just have to push ourselves,” said Makayla Mcmichael.

Sometimes taking a load off can be just what you need to do well on your finals. “Don’t study so much that you stress yourself out. From my experience, the more relaxed you are the better you’ll do,” said senior, Allie Rae Thompson. Getting lots of rest and taking moments to do things that make you feel happy are all stress relievers that will lead to relaxation before the big tests.

Overall, finals are a big deal. However, it’s only as stressful as you make it. Study without overdoing it and take special steps to relax. Ending finals on a good note will set off the break on the positive side.