Successful Students

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

       If there is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better that massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more and earn higher grades by studying in four, one hour-a-night session for Friday’s exam than 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 fall to learn this session and end up repeating it all over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, hah? 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 watermelon 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 ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

Choose The Right!!!

s.s.s

S.S.S

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (and not good).”

Reflection: I think this means that to do what right that all times. To not brake the law. 

Student Success Statement

_{Student Success Statement}

_{“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”}

_{Howard Cosell}

_{Reflection: I think this means that what right isn’t the popular thing to do, just because all the people do something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.} 

Successful Student

Successful Student

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7.  … understand that action affect learning. Successful student know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotion which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain that that normally produces particular feeling, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored.  Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the 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 ask 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 student get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with your friends or classmate, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for learning for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So, the next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, reading, 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.

_{Choose the right!!!}

s.s.s

Student success statement

"The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther king, jr

Reflection: I think this means that to choose the right all the times. King knew that slavery was wrong so he did what was right and stood up for his people.

Successful Students

Successful Students

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 their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibilities mean control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choices. Active classroom participants improves in grades without in cress in study time. You can sit there, act board, day dream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Ether option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.
2. Have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

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? Answer to these questions represents your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factor in your success as a college student. If you’re educational goals are truly yours, not someone else's, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tired of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren't and don't, everything can and will!

                                CHOOSE THE      RIGHT!!!!   

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  

Reflection: I think this means to always choose the right. That you know what right when you feel good that means you are moral. If you do something bad then you have a bad feeling inside of you.  

Jackie McConnell

Summary

What happens in Tennessee Walking Horse is that Jackie McConnell a trainer who was caught on camera training the horses cruel. He will hit the horses in the noise. He will tape the horse’s legs. ABC News showed up and Jackie had no comment. He didn’t even feel bad about it.

Study for multiple Exam part2

Study for multiple Exam part2

My strategies for written assignment: everyone has their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amount of research before I ever think about writing. I then organize my research then sometimes prepare 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 my eyes a break from it, and if I just wrote it l 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 meeting and have each member show their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

Choose the right!!!

Study for Multiple Exams

Study for Multiple Exams

How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects: Really it is my time management that I explained above. If I see I have multiple things due or to study for all at the same time I spread out my time beforehand. For explained, if I have a test Monday, and 2 tests Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start studying for next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part of 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 test. My overall study method:  I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I get bogged down if try to pull an all-nighter.

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: If I received a low grade I probably knew it was coming because I 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.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

s.s.s

Student Success Statement

“There is no instinct like that of the heart”

Bryon

Reflection: I think this means that to follow what your heart tells you to do.

Sarah's Academic Success Story part 2

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 2

          My test study methods: I have different strategies for different types of test or subject. 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. Many 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 shot study guide for myself many times focusing on what were key focal points in the class. If I knew their where we 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 carry a planner with me. I even use different color highlighters to show what each event on my calendar is 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 is 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 on how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

Choose the Right!!!

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Time management became a key factor in my study skills for college. In high school, there were times I was able to study for an hour or two the night before a test and get away with it. This was not the case in college. I made sure in college 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 excellent notes in class in college. I may have done this in high school, but in college 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 I was more likely to remember then as well.

My overall study method: Structured. One thing I learned was I had to adapt or charge 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.

Choose the right!!!   

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Anon

I think this statement means that you choose where to go with your live and follow your heart.

Work together

Work together

Part 3

Here are my final words of wisdom for student who wants to get better grades in college: a big thing that not many will say is to ask for help if you needed it. It’s not a bad thing to not understand, it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan your time out so you are completing everything that is needs to get done and leave time to double check. Write things down and have a good time management double check skills. Ask for help is the biggest thing I can say though. 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 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! Choose The Right!!!