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What does ACES stand for?
Achieving Career and Education Success
Why do some students drop out of college in the first year?
Students typically drop out of college within their first year of college as a result of financial problems, personal or family crisis, and not passing courses.
What is memory?
How you store and retrieve information.
What are some tips for success for the day of a test?
Some tips for success on the day of a test are to eat a good meal, get to the test site early, and to check your work before submitting the test.
When would you need to use a citation in your paper?
When using any information that was not common knowledge.
Which resources are on Davenport University's website?
Davenport University's website has resources such as financial aid, tutoring and testing services, academic calendar, withdraw/refund calendar, student employment, internships, student life, disability services, career services, library, public safety, and health and wellness clinics.
How many hours a week should you be doing your homework?
For every hour in class, you should spend about 2 hours on homework. This includes reading, studying, and writing for that class each week.
What are the two primary ways to absorb new ideas and information in college.
Listening and Reading
What is time management?
Setting goals, planning, allocating, delegating, analyzing time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing.
When you have a citation in your paper.
Where would you find the tutoring center?
The library
How is college different than high school?
Some examples of the differences between college and high school are that time management is more important, students need to keep track of their own homework and meet deadlines, there are larger classes, classes are mostly lecture based, students have more freedom and less supervision, students experience different types of people and new living situations, there is more textbook reading, assignments are longer, less memorizing and more analyzing, more studying.
Research suggests that we remember about _ to _ percent of what we hear.
25 to 50 percent
What is the proven technique that best helps with time management?
Planners, do to lists, notes
What should the margins be set at for APA?
1 inch
What is a marginal adjustment?
Small changes you make in life to result in big changes.
Because college is different from high school what are some negative consequeces that often happen?
•Sleeping late
•Skipping class
•Missing deadlines
•Failing to study for tests
How can you show someone you are listening to them?
Some ways to show you are listening when someone is speaking to you are to use your body language and gestures to convey your attention, nod occasionally, smile and use other facial expressions, make sure your posture is open and inviting, and encourage the speaker to continue with small verbal comments like yes and uh huh.
What is test anxiety?
Test anxiety is when a person feels distress before, during, or after a test or exam to the point where this stress causes poor performance.
How would you cite the Davenport website at the end of your sentence?
(Davenport University, n.d.).
What did the Mayo Jar teach us?
Always put the big things first so we have room for the smaller things.
What are some aspects of time management?
Setting goals, planning, allocating, delegating, analyzing time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing
Why is active listening important?
You will do better in school, avoid conflicts, communicate better.
What are some ways to stop procrastination?
Accept that you procrastinate and work to fix it, use a planner, write notes to yourself, counter a negative with a worse negative, and study with a friend.
Where can you find help with APA?
The library, library website, tutor, Purdue Owl website.