Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“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 (not good).”

Joseph Smith

This statement signifies that we should all be doing that which is right. Also we should all stop that which is wrong. Even if wrong is popular concentrate!

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Successful Students 9

Successful Students

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

If there is one thing study skills specialist agree on, it is that distributed is better than massed, late night, last ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn higher grade by studying in 4, 1 hour a night sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for 4 hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever huh?

When you cram, you’re taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could’ve 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 is like planting watermelon seeds and expecting to harvest 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.

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Lead the Way

Student Success Statement

“What’s right isn't always popular. What’s popular isn't always right.”

Howard Cosell

This statement means that just because many people are doing it, doesn't mean that they’re doing something CTR. For example, many people are doing drugs because they think it’s fun and popular, but in reality they’re shortening their lives. But if you like to be a follower would you follow someone to their and your grave. Another example would be if people are jumping off roofs would you do it too? Just remember to Choose The Right!

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Successful Students 7-8

Successful Students

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7….. Understand that actions after learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re distracted, and you’ll become disinterested. So next time you have trouble concentrating in 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 are learning. Successful students get to know something well enough they put into words. Talk about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provide the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t know material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend your teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Pleasure or Pain in Graduation

Student Success Statement

High school graduation can be one of the highlights of your life. But you have to make sure to always choose the right. In a high school graduation make sure to follow any rules, because you don’t want to feel pain. Also do great in your classes and you’ll feel pleasure.

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Successful Students 5-6

Successful Students

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back can’t possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no. 4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptation of an inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they chose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons; is there something else you should be doing with your time.

6…. Take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. is there something else you should be doing with your time. a short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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MLK Always Time for the Right

Student success Statement

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

       I believe this statement means that you can always do right things. In other words there’s no time against choosing the right if you’re doing something good. If someone needs your help you can help them no matter the time. Remember Choose the Right.

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Successful Students 3-4

Successful Students 3-4

3.      … ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4.      …learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not the enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals –in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

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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

This statement means that if you do something good you feel good about yourself. If you do wrong you feel bad about yourself. So make sure to do the right thing even if it means not hanging out with bad influences as friends.

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Choose The Right

Jackie McConell Torturer

If you have seen what Jackie Mcconell did to those horses you would be just as disgusted as I am right now. I don’t believe why people would train horses especially torture them just for fame and fortune. This right here is CTW and beyond. So if you’re into horse walking make sure that nobody treats your horse like this nobody.

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Study For Exams Part 2

Study For Multiple Exams

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: Everyone has their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts of 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 I think it looks perfect. But if I look it a day later I almost always find grammatical errors or phrases and sentences I just reword.

How I succeed in team projects: Never assume someone is doing what they’re supposed to be doing. Have regular meetings and have each member show their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

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Study for Multiple Exams

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 1

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 example, if I have a test on Monday, and 2 tests Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday as well and part of Sunday.  Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already study for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for other tests.

My overall study method: I try to break up over several days or at least 2. I got bogged down if I try to pull an all nighter.

How I overcome an initial bad grade: If I receive a low grade I didn’t use the right study habit for that class. I usually try to go over what I did wrong 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.

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Happiness Within

Student Success Statement

“Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.”

James Freeman Clarke

This statement means that if Choose the Right happiness will find you. An example of happiness would be joining the Red Cross. You will be helping people in need and you can find true love there or a family you never had. So if you help out others in need you will find happiness within yourself. Another example would be going to college and once you finish achieve your dream.

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Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 2

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 2

My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of tests or subjects. 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 any additional study materials they could provide. If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of study guide for myself many times on what were key vocal points in class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to take 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. 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 if 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.

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Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 1

Time management became a key in my study skills for college. In high school, there were times I was able to study for an hour or 2 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 in each class. Sometimes that meant writing out the terms for each chapter we read (even if it wasn'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 taking excellent notes 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 later I was more likely to remember them as well.

My overall study method: Structured. One thing I learned was that I had to adapt or change my study method according to class. I couldn’t study for Religion Class the same way I studied for Finance class. But making sure I had enough time to study for each class—even if it meant if it meant carrying a planner with me at all times was a big part of my success.

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Define EXECEL Arithmetic Operators

Define EXECEL Arithmetic Operators

1. 1.  + Addition
2. 2.  – Subtraction
3. 3.  * Multiplication
4. 4.  / Division
5. 5.  ^ Power or Exponent

Follow your Heart

Student Success Statement

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

Anon

This statement is written to show that we make decisions in life. Others can persuade you but you can control your action and your words. Your parents aren't always going to be there you need to learn how to make decisions.

Work Together Part 3

Work Together

Part 3

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want 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 you time out so you are completing everything that needs to get done and leave time to double check. Write things down and have good time management skills. Ask for help is probably 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 If you try hard, it will come to you. I find myself thinking that I would that I would have to try harder to fail than I try to succeed. It is something that is within me to succeed. If that is not who you are, then hopefully things that I have done can show you that success is something amazing to find! Good luck!

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Work Together Part 2

Work Together

Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips: For math, all I can say is to do the problems assigned. It is the only way to practice and that’s really all there is for math. It’s the same for chemistry; if you do the practice problems you will understand the material so much better because those subjects are just memorization like history, you need to be able to apply what you have learned in practical situations. As for English, I am no longer taking it, but I would say to leave yourself plenty of time to essays and papers. They take time to get all information out of your head and onto the page , so don’t leave them until the last second.

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Work Together

Work Together

Part 1

I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do his work. I don’t like having to pick up the slack, but I will if I know my grade will be harmed otherwise. My greatest academic success was in my first semester when I had to write a 10-12 page research paper. It was the longest paper I had ever been assigned and I was a little scared. Also it was the first paper where they were like, here you go, just write about something, but it could be anything from the sky is blue to hypnotism. I wrote mine on hypnotism. I worked on this paper for weeks and weeks. Every night I would be doing research or writing on my paper. I put so much effort into this paper. It ended up being just under 12 pages but it was full on information. I turned it in and when I got it back a week or so, I had received the first A+ of my college career. All my hard work paid off because I got the grade I deserved. I was really happy and proud of myself.

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Tiger Woods Ignores his Needy Brother

Tiger Woods Ignores his Needy Brother

This is something that you as a human should never do. You should never leave a family in need especially ignore their calls for help. This is exactly what choosing the wrong is. But the worst part is that he’s wealthy he can spare money especially for a family member. So remember to help someone in a time of need especially if they’re your family members.

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You Can Succeed Every Day

You Can Succeed Every Day

Part 1

My overall study method: I break up studying over several days and over the course of the evening and day. Cramming never works for me so I try not to do it. I will have longer sessions on nights before big tests. I know that if I take the test tired the next day I will not do as well as if I was rested.

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: I usually look over the test or paper to see what I did that the teacher didn’t want. Basically, I do not stress out about grades that much because for me they are not worth getting really upset about. I do well because I know that I know the material. However, if I do get a bad grade, or one lower than I expected, I make sure that the next time that a test is coming I study even more so that I won’t be surprised by the next question.

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One Life

Student Success Statement

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again.”

Etienne de Grellet

You only live once so try to do as many good deeds as you can. Never say no to something you can do to help someone. Also don’t walk away from a good deed you can do for someone will return the favor in a time when you need help.

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Effective Study Methods Part 3

Effective Study Methods

Part 3

How I deal with multiple projects/tests: When I have more than one test or project, I break up my studying. I will study for one test for 30 minutes or so and then switch to the other one. If there is some part of a project I know will not take me very long I will do it when I don’t have much time. If I’m really in a crunch of time on a specific day, I will study one test in the morning and the other in the afternoon or at night. By breaking up the studying into different sections, I feel I get much more done. Cram sessions do not work for me. I need to study something for a short period of time more often for it to sink in.

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