Successful students 9

Successful students

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9… don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than crams sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that’s study skills specialist agree I, it is that distributed study id better than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn't  Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. it takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planting watermelons seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”

Howard Cosell

Reflection: this is trying to say that you shouldn’t be doing things that are popular cause they are not always the right thing to do.

Successful students 7-8

Successful students

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7…… understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their own feelings and emotions.
if you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become disinterested. So next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom,” act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8….. talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with your friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers.” Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Successful students 5-6

Successful students

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no.4). why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classrooms experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they close the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical of efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons, is there something else you should be doing with your time?

6…… take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, ad review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the materials is still fresh on your mind helps your lean more. The more you lean the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Successful students 3-4

Successful students

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3. …. Ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two others extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4. … learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the materials in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

 Successful students reflect well on the effects of any teacher; if you have learned your materials, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, and you share the same interest, the same goals- in short, your teammates. Get to know your professors. You’re the most valuable players on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for manual success. Neither wishes to chalk up losing season. Be a team player!

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what’s right and what’s wrong.

Reflection: your actions are different you are in a good mood and in a good mood at times. But the right one is to be mortal because when you are in a good mood things come out right and when u are immortal which means in a bad mood things come out bad .

Successful students 1-2

Successful students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students…

1.                     ….. are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own effort controls your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, and you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, experience. Either option cost one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to active the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.                     …. Have educational goals. Successful students have legitimates goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desire.

Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your” hot buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors I your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t everything can and will.
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Student success statement

Student success statement

“My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Reflection: the strength of a person is whole for them because they should just love themselves 

Study for multiple exams Part 3

Study for multiple exams

Part 3

English, math, foreign language tips: PRACTICE- - especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign language class if you are just showing and doing the work. But if you are in your room and look at objects and try to say them in the language you are learning it actually helps. Or if you send a simple text to a friend think about it, can you translate that to German or Spanish? These are little things that will help.

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: time management and organization are critical key factors to success in college. And have office hours for a reason- used them!!

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Jacky McConnell

 Jacky McConnell

Reflection: the trainer who along his employees, was caught on the tape, had no comment for ABC news. He trained for rich owners who wanted their Tennessee walking horses to dominate the competition; he’s now facing a federal indictment.

Study for multiple exams Part 2

Study for multiple exams

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: everyone has their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts of research before I ever think about writing. I then organize my research then something prepares an outline before actually writing I always print out the paper and come back to it the next day and reread it. That is the easiest way for me to catch my own mistakes. I have to give eyes a break from it, and if I just wrote it I think it looks perfect. But if I look at it a day later I almost always find grammatical errors or phrases and sentences I just want to reword

 How I succeed in team project: never assume someone is doing what they are supposed to be doing. Have regular meetings and have each member show their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

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Study for multiple exams Part 1

Study for multiple exams

Part 1

How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects: really it is my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test Monday, and 2 tests Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday, then my second  Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part on Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studied for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for the other tests.my overall study method: I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I get bogged down if I try to pull am all nighter. How I've overcome an initial bad grade if I didn't prepare properly or didn't use the right study habit for that class/ I usually try to go over what I did wrong and sometime discuss with the teacher what I can do differently on the next exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

BYRON

REFLECTION: It’s saying that you have to listen to your heart first of everything 

Sarah’s academic success story Part 2

Sarah’s academic success story

Part 2

My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of tests or subjects. For me, any type of math is exceptionally difficult so I had to spend extra time on that. I would go back through the homework problems focusing on the problems that I had extra difficulty on. May times I would ask the teacher for an additional study materials they could provide? If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of study guide for myself many times focusing on what were key focal points in the class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to take the terms and apply them to an example or create different questions on the concepts focused on throughout the semester.

My time management secret: I always always always carrrY a planner with me. I even use different color highlighters to show what each event on my calendar is for. For example, pink is personal, yellow is school, orange is work, blue is for appointments, and green is for my sorority. although I use white-out frequently, I can see in bright yellow that if I have that project for finance due on Tuesday, I need to start working on it on [the previous { Wednesday so I can just get it done. My friends have always been amazed at how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

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Sarah’s academic success story Part 1

Sarah’s academic success story

Part 1

Time management became a key inn my study skills for collage. In high school, there were times I was able to study for an hour or two the night before a test I collage I was prepared for each class. Sometimes that meant writing out the terms for the chapter we read (even if when it isn’t required) to better understand them. That way when the midterm or test comes around I was able to understand what I was studying. I started taking excellent notes in class in collage. I may have done this in high school, but in collage I started typing up the notes after class. This helped me remember what I just went over in class then when I had a test one week later I was more likely to remember then as well.

My overall study method:  structured. One thing I learned was to adapt or change my study method according to the class. I couldn’t study for a religion class the same way I studied for a finance class. But making sure I had enough time to study for each class—even if it meant carrying a planner with me at all times was a big part of my success.

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“There is no path, just follow your heart.”

Anon

Reflection: it means that you should do what u want and not what others want follow your own self no other people

Work together Past 3

Work together

Past 3

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in collage: a big thing to not understand, it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan you time out so you are completing everything that’s needs to get done and leave time to double check. Write things down and have well times management skills. Ask for help is probably the biggest thing I can say through. If you don’t understand, go to office hours or find a classmate that does understand and is willing to help you. If you try hard, it will come to you. I find myself thinking that I would have to try harder to fail than I try to succeed. It is something that is within me to succeed. If that is not who you are, then hopefully things that I have done can show you that success is something that is amazing to find! Good luck!

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Work Together Part 2

Work Together Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips. For math, all I can say is do the problems assigned. It is the only way to practice and that’s really all it is for math. It’s the same for chemistry; if you do the practice problems you will understand the material so much better because those subjects are not just memorization like history, you need to be able to apply what you have learned in practical situations. As for English, I am no longer taking it, but I would say to leave yourself plenty of time to write essays and papers. They take time to get all the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave them until the last second.  

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Work together

Work together

I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do his work. I don’t like having to pick up the slack, but I will if I know that my grade will be harmed otherwise. My greatest academic success was in my first semester when I had to write a 10-12 page research paper. It was the longest paper I had ever been assigned and I was a little scared. Also, it was the first paper where they were like; here you go, just write about something. I had to argue in favor of or against something, but it could be anything from the sky blue to hypnotism. I wrote mine on hypnotism. I worked on this paper for weeks and weeks. Every night I would be doing research or writing. I put so much effort into this paper. It ended up being just under 12 pages but it was full on information. I turned it in and when I got it back a week or so later, I had received the first a+ of my college career. All my hard work paid off because I got the grade I deserved. I was really happy and proud of myself.

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You can succeed everyday Part 2

You can succeed everyday

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: I try to outline before I write because otherwise I forget what I am supposed to be talking about. I try not to leave them until the last minute because then I will just goof up the work. A lot of times I just write what I feel. Teachers like your opinion and if you can find something from the reading or research that relates specifically to your life, they like it even more because it allows you to take ownership of your work. I write things that I want others to read; not things that I have to write because the teacher said so.

How I succeed in team project: personally, I do not like working on group projects, especially ones that I worked on high school. However, when it is required to work in a group, usually I try to lead. I like taking the lead because then I know that my grade will be a good one. I do well in school, I always have more time to waste on things other than the project, and I try to be in charge. That way I know that things are going to get done on time and that I am going to get a good grade. If I am working in a group of people who all want to work, then it is a different story.

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Reflection:

Reflection: Tiger Woods Is Very Selfish Because A Family Member Should Always Help Family But This Guy Choose Not To And His Half Brother Needs Him Because He Is Sick and Might Lose His House. This Is What Money Did To This Family It Separated Them.   

You can succeed every day Part 1

You can succeed every day

Part 1

My overall study method: I break up studying over several days and over the course of everything and day. Cramming never works for me so I try not to do it. I will have longer sessions on nights before big tests, but I never stay up much later than normal before tests. I know that if I take the test tired the next day I will not do as well as if I was rested.

How that if I've overcome an initial bad grade: I usually look over the test or paper to see what I did that the teacher did not want. Basically, I do not stress out about grades that much because for me they are not worth getting really upset about. I do well because I know that I know the material. However, if I do get a bad grade, or one lower than I expected, I make sure that the next time a text is coming I study even more so that I won’t be surprised by the questions.

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Student success statement

                    Student success statement

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again.”

Etienne de Grellet

Reflection:  I think it’s trying to do something right and that’s good.

Effective study methods Part 3

Effective study methods

Part 3

How to deal with multiple projects/tests: when I have more than one test or project, I break up my studying. I will study for one test for 30 minutes or so and then switch to the other one. If there is some part of a project that I know will not take me very long, I will do it when I don’t have much time. If I am really in a crunch for time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the morning and the other in the afternoon or at night. By breaking up the studying into different sections, I feel like I get much more done. Cram sessions do not work for me. I need to study something for a shorter period of time more often for it to sink in.  

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VACATION ..

MY VACATION WAS GREAT I SPENT IT MORE WIITH MY FRIENDS OUTSIDE. A CRAZY DAY WAS WHEN ME AND MY BESTFRIEND ANGELA WENT OUT AND I FORGOT TO TELL MY MOOM WHILE WE WERE OUT HAVING FUN MY MOM AND SISTER WERE LOOKING FOR ME WHEN I CAME BACK MY MOM WAS REALLY MAD AT MEEH AND PULLED MY HAIR HAHA IT WAS FUNNY BUT THEN SHE HAD SAIDI WAS GROU DED BUT DHE GOT OVER IT. DAYS PAST AND I KICK IT WITH MY BOYFIREND AND FIRIENDS IT WAS CHILL I HAD FUN IN MY VACTION IN CHRISMATE ND NEW YEARS I GOT TIPSY WITH THE FAMILY ..... THERE MORE TO THAT BUT ITS ABOUT HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS....I ALSO SLEPT OVER MY BESTFRIEND(ANGELA)  HOUSE AND HASD SO MUCH FUN I GOT SICK TO NOT COOL

Effective study methods

Effective study methods

Part 1

My test study method: when it comes time to study for the test, I usually start 2-3 days before the test. I go through my notes and make flashcards on what was important for those sections, paying special attention to what the teacher said would be on the test If there was a review session. Also, I go through the book and read the inset stories and add to my flashcards. If there are practice problems or online assignments or old test, I used those to help me study for the test as well. Once the test is over, I keep the flashcards so that I have them for the next test or for the final. Flashcards are a marvelous learning tool. The key to remembering something is to repeat it numerous times-spaced rehearsal. If you forget something, it’s because you haven’t repeated it enough times for an extended period of time. Repletion is a law of learning; therefore, to learn and remember to recall it is mandatory that you repeat over and over the things you desire to learn and remember. You may be thinking” oh, no, repeating something.” you need to get used to it. For example, the movie you practice a song on the piano, the better you become at playing that song. Learning and remembering is like playing the piano- the more you practice saying or doing it the better you can remember it. Look now at what you remember. You remember it because you have repeated it numerous times since first being exposed to it. So, practice rehearsing those things you desire to remember, and they will stick with you.

PracticeàProficiency->Pleasure

The better you remember, the more pleasure you obtain from studying and learning.

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