I know it is not very easy with most newbies because some newbies joined the forum without having much knowledge but they have no choice to grow as they join the forum to meet the standard of the forum and sometimes this process of learning may delay one in getting merit, but you shouldn't be bothered so much if you don't get merit quick as newbies, it is better to be patience and focus the process of learning, this will fasting your growth in the future. Just focus in your learning and give the community what will benefit its members.
The truth of the matter is, hard work and consistency is a major factor that brings about one's progress in this forum. As someone who have pass through the process himself, I won't say getting rewarded for your efforts through the merits is easy. As a matter of fact, it requires one's full energy and passion to navigate the ranks and levels of this forum. One thing I've realized and appreciated with this forum is that forum members are intellectual people and they try as much to reward you based on your show of intellectual capacity and wherewithal.
People don't just get rewarded for the sake of reward, it is usually on the bases of one's contributions vis-a-vis their level understanding towards proffering an emerging solution to simple and complex problems. Although what I've noticed is the reward system seems to be getting tighter as merit sources are not generally as generous as they used to be in the past and I hope that this reward system works better for us all again in the near future.
However, there are still boards where you get rewarded for your contributions especially the technical board but my argument at the same time will be that it's not everyone here that's good in technical aspect of Bitcoin so, if merits are more available over those boards than others, many people might end up not benefiting from the reward system.
The last advice I'd like to share with every newbie is not become so hard on themselves in using grammars. The forum wasn't created for grammarians and we equally know that the forum is a global platform which has accormodated diverse set of members across the world and still accommodating more, so while we are only using English as our own official language here, you do not have to be painstaking about using grammars to communicate here.