Transcript success at ASU

Success at ASU
Part II: Additional Tips and Strategies
Presenter Name, Ph.D.
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Arizona State University
Last updated 08-20-07
www.asu.edu/asu101
Success Tips
• Find time for rest, exercise, and have some fun! Having a
balanced life is essential to success.
• Locate all useful campus resources early; take a campus
tour and know where things are (e.g., library; your
instructors and advisor’s offices; tutoring centers; career
counseling; health center)
• Don’t wait for things to become a crisis; address problems
early
• Find a study buddy
• Create or join study/review teams; asking and answering
questions and reviewing with others is a very effective way
to learn
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Success Tips
• Buy and use your own books
• Save everything on a disk
• Always have a copy of your work on a disk or jump drive;
professors do misplace work and mail and emails do get
lost
• Use a new disk every semester, and keep the old ones as
reference of the work you did (e.g., you may need old
papers for writing samples for internships or jobs)
• Keep material from your classes from previous semesters;
you may need them if you ever transfer to another school
or if you take an incomplete
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Studying Tips
• Take a speed reading course (some are offered
through ASU’s School of Extended Education http://www.asu.edu/xed/reading/program7.html); it will
help you become a more effective and efficient
reader
• Take advantage of “wasted” time to study (e.g., while
waiting in line; before classes start if you are early)
• Use post-its, and/or a highlighter, and write notes in
your books to be able to review quickly so don’t have
re-read unimportant stuff
• Proof read your work carefully and read it out loud to
yourself or someone else
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What Can You Do?
Which two of the tips and strategies you just learned
about can you implement today or tomorrow?
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Which ones can you use by the end of this semester?
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Learning Styles
• People learn in different ways
• Some learn through listening, some through
reading, some through graphics and pictures
• Knowing about your learning styles will allow
you to study and learn using the most
effective (the best way) and most efficient
(the least amount of time) strategies for you
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Determining your Learning Styles
The following web sites have self-assessment tools to
help you determine your learning style. You can
complete all three or just stick with one
• VARK guide to learning styles: http://www.varklearn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
• http://www.learning-styles-online.com/
• Graphic learning styles:
http://homeworktips.about.com/library/quizzes/bl_lstyl
equiz1.htm
• What is your learning style:
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/ts/style.html
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My Learning Style
Based on the self-assessment you completed, what is
your primary learning style? (you may have more than
one)
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What are the key characteristics of those styles?
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What Works Best for you?
Based on what you have just learned about your
learning styles, what are some new study strategies you
can use to make your studying more effective?
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What Resources Do you Need?
What resources (e.g., tutors, help from advisors, study
team) do you need to implement your new study
strategies?
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What is your Biggest Challenge?
• Since starting college, what has been your
biggest challenge?
• What are some resources that are available
to you to address that challenge?
• When can you start working out a solution?
• Who can help you?
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