Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“The first law of success…Is concentration; to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.”

Reflection: What is telling you is to concentrate on whatever you are doing as long as the right thing. If you are focusing in one career, stay concentrating on that career. For example, I’m concentrating on the career of cardiology. 

SQ3R

SQ3R

SQ3R=Survey –Questions-Reach-Recite-Review

Question

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

·        Turn to tittle, headings or subheadings into questions.

·        Rewrite the questions at the end of 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 question for that section. Pay attention to bold and italicized text that authors use to make important points.

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

Choose The Right

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow”

-Robert Kiyosaki

Reflection: You make your future everyday not by what you will be doing later on.

SQ3R

SQ3R

SQ3R: A Great Reading and Studying Technique

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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 a lot 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 tittle, headings and subheadings

·        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.

Choose The Right

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

This rule is even more important in life than basketball. You have to apply yourself each day to become a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will 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.”

Reflection: What is saying is that you need to practice your skills every day to get better at them. By practicing every day, everything will become easier for you. For example, I practice playing football to get better at catching the ball. 

Reading 5 Tips for Success Tips 3-4

Reading

5 Tips for Success

Tips 3-4

Tip 3: Do Research

Literary critics have writing vast numbers 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 a Dictionary

Make sure you have access to a dictionary when you’re reading. You can often figure 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 all well worth the effort. Your comprehension will increase greatly, and you’ll build your vocabulary at the same time.

Choose The Right 

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Reflection: Mostly every time you’re doing something, you feel afraid of not doing it. That’s because you’re not confident of yourself. Not all the time, things are going to be right. They’re going to be sometimes when things are not going to be right