Attendance at swim practice is very important. The way you swim in practice will effect the way you swim in your next meet. For example, if you mess around and don't try, then you will probably wont swim fast at a meet, but if you try and work really hard then you will probably drop time. It's not
just how hard you work, but also how much you go. Say you only go to practice three days a week out of six, then if you have high goals, they probably won't be reached with that attendance.
What you need to focus on in practice is what you or your coach noticed you did wrong in the previous swim meet. Sometimes it could be that you didn't have a strong enough kick or a good enough pull, your head moves around too much, when you breath you lift you head up too high, your streamline may need to be tighter, or many more possibilities. The way that you can solve that is by one, coming to practice so you can work on what you need to work on, and stay in shape, and two, by drilling! There could be numerous different drills to do to work on what you need to work on.
Drills can be different things. It can be kicking or pulling, or an actual drill. Drills that are kicking could just be kicking with a kick board, streamline kick, or underwater kick. You can flutter kick, dolphin kick, or breast stroke kick. The flutter kick is used in freestyle (free) (people know it as the front crawl) and used in backstroke (back). The dolphin kick is used in butterfly (fly). Obviously the breast stroke kick is used in the breast stroke (breast). Drills for pulling could just be using a pull buoy and pulling whatever stroke you need to work on. Free, back, breast, and fly pull looks like what they are doing in the pictures below. The first picture is someone swimming free, the second picture is someone swimming fly, the third picture is someone swimming back, and the fourth picture is someone swimming breast stroke.
There can be many different drills for you to do. Most of the drills that you do are to help your stroke technique. Like I said before, your coach would, or should tell you what you need to work on for you to decide what drill you should do. An example of three drills to swim is in the video below.
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