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Study Skills
 Learn
by Taking a Quiz
This
quiz takes about five minutes to complete, depending upon your level
of preparedness. With each answer you select, a pop-up message will
appear explaining why that particular answer is right or wrong.
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1.
Should
you take notes in class?
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Yes, it helps you maintain your attention and
drives away boredom if you have any. |
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No, you can easily remember what happened in class
next week. |
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No, in class I've found the teacher only goes
over material for the dumb kids. |
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Yes, it gives the teacher the respect he or she
deserves. |
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2.
Is a pocket calendar
a good idea for keeping track of dates?
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No, with the right arguments you can usually turn
in your essays late, regardless of due dates. |
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Yes, a pocket calendar is an essential time-budgeting
device for college students. |
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How can I use a pocket calendar when I don't have
a pocket? |
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No, most people are too busy to be fiddling with
calendars. |
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3. How much attention should you
pay in class?
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You should block out all external distractions
and focus your entire mind, body, and soul on the subject of
discussion. |
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You shouldn't talk when the teacher is speaking,
but when other students are expressing their opinions it's okay
to chat quietly with your neighbor. |
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What's this I have to pay? I already paid tuition,
now I have to pay something else? Forget it! |
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You rarely learn anything in class anyway, so
just try to make the best of your time. |
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4. Is
procrastination an excellent technique for studying?
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Yes, you write better under pressure. |
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No, you need time to revise and if you procrastinate
you won't have it. |
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I'm too busy to study, much less procrastinate.
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What does this word even mean? |
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5. Should
you organize class handouts and materials in a notebook?
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You don't need a binder because everything you
need to know is online. |
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Yes, keeping your notes, assignments, and handouts
in order in a notebook will organize your thoughts about the
topic and help prepare you to you write. |
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Yes, and I've got some nifty little plastic folders
that I can use! |
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Notebooks and binders are too bulky to carry around;
they also look nerdy. |
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You're absolutely right. Even if you don't
study the notes later, you probably absorbed the material
better in class because the note-taking helped you to listen
more attentively.
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Keeping
track of 5 different classes' deadlines and due dates in your
head for the entire semester, mixed in with club meetings,
sports dates, outings, and family events is a difficult feat
to accomplish. If you've never used a calendar, your life
is probably busy enough now to require one. |
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Yes! Doing
so may frighten your teacher a bit, though. |
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Right.
Writing requires a number of drafts and revisions. The more
time you allow between these drafts, the greater possibility
you have of seeing how to improve your writing. |
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Congratulations!
If you answered all of these questions correctly, you're on
your way to a bright academic future. On the other hand, if
you answered C to every one of the questions, you probably
shouldn't have been admitted to college. |
In sum, if you (1) take notes in class, (2) keep a calendar, (3)
pay attention when your teacher and peers speak, (4) avoid procrastination,
and (5) organize the handouts and materials, you'll have more academic
success.
Of course, whether you truly succeed depends on larger issues,
such as being persistent and determined to do your best, spending
sufficient time researching the topic, learning to enjoy writing,
etc. The techniques in the quiz, however, are easy, concrete ways
of moving towards these more important characteristics.
In addition to the advice in the quiz, the following student advice
link offers advice (in the form of "Dear Student")
from students who have previously taken writing courses at AUC.
Read what they have to say:
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