Time management

8 of 10

Master the moments and you may be a real pro when it comes to juggling the many demands on your time –classes, homework and activities—with some family help. College gives you an even bigger chance to sharpen your time management skills by doing it all on your own. And that’s a good thing since most jobs require multitasking. You might need to take care of current clients while attracting new ones, respond to e-mails while working on major presentations, or order tomorrow’s produce while planning next week’s menu. Someone said, “Wherever you are, be there.” Focus on the present moment and give it all your attention. Don’t let your mind drift and wander here and there when you need to be thinking and concentrating on the moment at hand. You can’t go back and recapture this moment, so make the most of it while it now. Master the present and you will master the future. Work smart by mastering the present moment.

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Attention to Detail

7 of 10

When you double-check your calculations for a math problem or cite sources carefully in a research paper, you’re paying close attention to detail. That skill comes in handy in any workplace, whether you maintain a database, keep a long of the hours you spend with clients or write e-mails.

John wooden, UCLA’s former great basketball coach who led his teams to ten consecutive national championships, was asked what he attributed his success to. Among a number of things, he mentioned that paying attention to details was one of the most important qualities for successful coaching and for achievement in any worthwhile pursuit. He even paid attention to how his players would lace up and tie their shoes strings. If they didn’t tie them correctly, he would teach them how.

Details may be small things, but from small things come great things; therefore, pay attention to details and you will experience substantial progress in your overall educational attainment.

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Cool Under Pressure

6 of 10

Very few students enjoy taking tests. Yet functioning well under pressure is crucial to your future success. Try thinking of the pressure of testing as practice for the work world’s own explosive situations. You could someday find yourself meeting tight deadlines speaking with irate customers, wielding a scalpel or handling dangerous chemicals.

The best way to crucial pressure and to even eliminate it is to prepare. Applying the motto “be prepared” holds true first time every time. Prepare for test, and you won’t worry about it. in fact, it will be your time to shine, to reveal the hard work you have put into preparing for the test. You will be rewarded for the effort you have thrust into your studies. Preparation removes fear. When you are prepared, you will not fear. Preparation helps you maintain your cool under pressure. Preparation generates energy and enthusiasm; therefore prepare and your coolness under pressure is sure to abound.

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Student Success Statement

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

Peter F. Drucker

This quote is saying that, is you start more differently with what is right for you, then people will have to accept you.

Initiative

5 of 10

Initiative is creativity, inventiveness, originality ingenuity, imagination. Every time you respond in class, every time you choose your own research topic, every time you put together you own interpretation of a piece of literature, you take initiative. And future employers value can-do professionals who come up with new ideas and chart their own course through projects, employees who are self-reliant. Self-reliant people are self-starters who don’t procrastinate on getting the job done. they know what is required to do and do it. They don’t wait to be told many times. Succeeding in high school, college, and in the career world is taking the initiative.

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Teamwork Skills 3 of 10

Teamwork Skills

3 of 10

Every time your class breaks into groups to tackle a challenge, you build teamwork skills. In college, you’ll continue to have these opportunities to practice voicing your opinions, listening and responding to others, and reaching compromises. By the time you leave college, you can be an expert in this important workplace skill.

Together

Everyone

Achieves

More

Individually you can achieve so much, but when you work with others for a common cause. The same objectives, you can accomplish a tremendous amount more. You synergize your talents, knowledge, and skills with those whom you work. All members of the team are edified together, a type of edification you can’t obtain by working alone.

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Speaking skills 2 of 10

Speaking skills

2 of 10

When you’re assigned a class presentation, think twice before dismissing it as an unimportant part of your education. Employers look for speaking skills in job applicants, who may to give presentations to clients or represent their organization in the field. It’s never too soon to practice good eye contact and other public speaking techniques.

http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/17334/

According to the book of list, the fear of public speaking ranks number one in the minds of the majority people. Far above the fear of death and disease, comes the fear of standing in front of a crow. Joel Weiner noted author and public speaker wants to help people overcome that fear.

The biggest fear is public speaking, with 15 percent of American experiencing a dramatic fear of it,” said Dr. Michael Telch of the laboratory of the study of anxiety disorders (LSAD) in the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. “People have had to turn down jobs, and certainly students have dropped classes because of it.”

Regardless of your occupation, your success depends a great deal upon your ability to communicate effectively! Whether you’re running a meeting, selling a product, making a presentation, motivation co-workers or just communicating one-on-one with others, you’ll get far better results if you can speak persuasively, smoothly and intelligently.

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Writing skills 1 of 10

Writing skills

1 of 10

Communication is at the top the list of skills that employers look for. And communication in the workplace often means writing.

Health professional keep patient charts, researchers depend on the memory they collect by writing grant applications, software engineers write technical specification, and nearly everyone writes e-mail to people inside and outside their organization. and before you even get the chance to interview for a job, you’ll need to present yourself in cover letters and resumes. So, by taking writing serious and doing your best on every research paper, every lab report you write, every new post you write in your blog site, and every writing activity you engage, you’re preparing yourself for a good career.

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Exam Day: survival

Tips

Test-taking

Part 2

During the test

Read the directions

It’s important that you follow the instructions exactly. For example, some questions may have more than one correct answer.

Answer easy questions first

Doing this can jog your memory about useful facts. You may also come across information that can help you with other questions.

Answer every question

Unless there is a penalty for wrong answer, try to answer every question; you may be able to get partial credit for those you being but don’t complete correctly.

Ask questions

If a question isn’t clear, talk to your teacher. If that’s not possible, explain your answer in the margin.

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Online learning

Part 2

More tips

Finally, look beyond the article for more clues.

. read the website’s home page and the about us page. Look for a mission statement to learn more about the site, its purpose and the organization sponsoring it.

If there is an author listen, look for a biography that discusses the author’s education, profession and other relevant background. If there is no bio on the site, search for one elsewhere on the web.

. check the date. Facts can change over time, so see if the site shows when it was last updated.

. presentation counts; look at everything from design to spelling. A clean, well-organized site shows a certain degree of professionalism.

. avoid sites that are pornographic, vulgar, inappropriate, below par, suggestive, and falsifying.

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Online Learning

Part 1

Read between the lines

Make a judgment about the site’s reliability based on your own analysis of the site and the information it contains. Here are some ways to do this:

. look for facts you know or can check with a trusted source. If the site gets those facts on the site are also accurate.

. study the language used. Is it angry, satiric or overly impassioned? This may indicate that the site is biased.

. consider whether the arguments are logical and backed up by evidence, and whether the site present only on point of view.

. check the links to the sources that the author acknowledges. Scholarly writing, whether in print or online, should include a bibliography.

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It’s online, but is it on target?

Part 3

Don’t-what?

Look at the site’s address. What follows the dot?

. Dot-com is not only for business; anyone can use it. Don’t-coms include well-known and respected companies, but also private individuals.

. dot-org usually indicates a not-for-profit organization. Many dot-orgs present unbiased information, but others have political agendas, focus an debatable issues instead of facts, and might not present all sides of an argument.

. dot-gov indicates a government website at the federal government is a good source of statistics, and its sites are widely considered among the most reliable.

. dot-mil is used by sites that are part of the military.

. dot-edu usually indicates a university website. While its published research is generally considered very trustworthy, anyone associated with the university, whether a world-renowned scholar or a freshman, can be given space on its server. Professors sometimes put student course work up on the web, but that doesn’t mean they’re vouching for the information’s accuracy.

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It’s online, but is it on target?

Part 2

Research with attitude

Conduct your research with the attitude of a skeptic. As you examine websites for clues that they’re trustworthy, ask these questions:

. who wrote the web page? If you can’t identify the individual or organization responsible for the information, don’t use it.

. what are the  author’s qualifications for writing on the subject?

. has the article passed through and editorial process designed to ensure quality and accuracy?

. what is the website’s purpose? Look for motives—like selling products or writing votes—that could result in biased or incomplete information.

. is the information accurate? is it up-to-date?

. where did the  author get this information.

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SQ3R

SQ3R=SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW

Recite

At the end of each section, look up from the text and in your own words recite an answer to your questions for that section. then write down your answer. Be sure to provide examples that support it.

Now repeat the question, read and recite steps for each section of the chapter. First ask a question for the next section. Then read to find the answer. Finally, recite the answer in your own words and jot it down. The written questions and answer can help you study in the future.

Review

After completing the chapter, review your notes. Identify the main points by looking for the most important idea in each section. Recite, or write, a brief summary of the assignment.

Review your study notes every week to help you remember the information. When it’s time to prepare for your test, you’ll find you've created an invaluable study guide.

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SQ3R

SQ3R

SQ3R= SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW

Question

As you survey the text, ask a question for each section. Ask what, why, how, when, who and where questions as they relate to the content. Here’s how you can create questions:

. turn the tittle, headings into questions.

. rewrite the questions at the chapter or after each subheading in your own words.

Write down your questions. Questions help you pay attention, understand the text better and recall the information more easily later on.

Read

Read one section of the chapter at a time, actively looking for an answer to your questions for that section. Pay attention to bold and italicized text that authors use to important points.

Be sure to review everything in the section, including tables, graphs and illustrations—these features can communicate an idea more powerfully than written text.

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SQ3R

SQ3R

SQ3R: A great reading and studying technique

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan?college-success/26666.html

Improve your study skills

SQ3R stands for:

Survey

Questions

Read

Recite

Review

It is a proven technique to sharpen your study skills.

In college, you’ll be required to do lots of reading. You’ll often have to complete reading assignments in several different books for several different courses at the same time.

SQ3R helps make reading and studying purposeful and effective, so that you use your time most efficiently. Here’s how this strategy works.

Survey

Let’s say your assignment is to read one chapter. First, get an idea of what the chapter is about by reviewing the highlights:

. Read the title, headings and subheading.

. Notice words that are italicized or bold.

. Look at charts, graphs, pictures, maps and other visual material.

. Read captions.

.read the very beginning and end of the chapter.

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Reading

5 tips for success

Tip 5

Tip 5: keep a list of questions

When you feel confused about something you’re reading, write down any questions you have. Sometimes your questions are answered as you read further. If not, don’t be afraid to ask for help. Remember, teachers create assignments; they’ve read the texts and are familiar with them. When you have specific questions, your teachers can provide answers that will help you better understand the material. Learning is rooted in questions develop and asked by the learner.

Asking questions to yourself, to the teacher, and to others, is a great learning method. When you cease to ask questions, you cease to exist to great extent. Read actively by silently asking questions as you read. Questions immerses you into the material you are reading and therefore will expand your material you are reading and therefore will expand your mental capacities mote that almost anything else.

The philosopher sir Francis bacon said, “knowledge is power.” Improving your reading comprehension in the key to gaining important knowledge and making the most of your education. So pick up a book…. And a pen.

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Student Success statement

“When I was teaching basketball, I urged my players to try their hardest to improve on that very day, you make that practice a masterpiece.

This rule is more important in life than basketball. You have to apply to yourself each day to become a little better. By applying yourself to becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be. It begins by trying to make each day count and knowing you can never make up for a lost day.”

 John Wooden

Reflection: What I think about this statement is that, if you put in all your effort into something, then that would become your ultimate master piece. :D  

Reading

5 tips for success

Tips 3-4

Tip 3: do research

Literary critics have written vast number of analytical and critical pieces on countless books. If you’re having trouble understanding a particular text, do some research and see what knowledgeable sources have to say about it. In addition to increasing your comprehension, you’ll also be showing initiative, something teachers always like to see.

Always use legitimate and scholarly sources, not condensed study guides.

Tip 4: use you have access to a dictionary when you’re reading. You can often out the meaning of an unfamiliar word by using context clues, but sometimes you can’t. Rather than simply skipping over the words you don’t know take the time to look them up. The results are well worth the effort. Your comprehension will increase greatly, and you’ll build your vocabulary at the same time.

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Student Success Statement

“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it ended up not being right.”

Mario Cuomo

(52^nd Governor of NY)

He’s saying that, if you feel bad about doing something wrong, try to fix it before it starts to get worse. D: