Tips for Succeeding in Your Education
Keep up
- Learn to manage your time and avoid procrastinating
- Make tasks fit into the time that you have to do them
- Do some work on every course every week; learn as you go
- Do some problems every day
- Plug gaps and ask questions about what you don't understand every week
- If you fall behind, jump in where the teacher is and backtrack later
Be an active learner
- Before class, go over notes from the previous class and preview the textbook chapter
- After class, go over your notes and fill in missing info; work the problems the teacher did in class; get help if you don't understand
- After solving a problem, summarize the steps in words
- After solving a series of problems at the end of a chapter, organize problems by types and procedures (Get the Big Picture)
Study smart: Quality time is more important than quantity time
- Spend time on value activities, i.e. spend more time doing problems than reading the textbook
- Be selective; focus on priorities in a course
- If you get stuck on a problem, get help, then or later; don't spend too long trying to figure it out yourself
- Prepare for an exam by doing problems without your notes in a time limit; know when you know by testing yourself
Use as many resources as possible
- Get to know other students in your class and work with them
- Get to know your teacher and use his/her office hours
- Check out other textbooks or self-help material from the library or book store if you are having difficulties
- Get other students' phone numbers or emails so you can contact them easily when you have difficulty or miss class
- Use Student Services, including Counselling and Development
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