Reading
Note Taking
Class Participation
Mastering Tests
Overcoming Obstacles
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This reading strategy has three phases which are summarized by the following sentences: Pry Out Questions. Focus and Flag Answers. Recite, Review, and Review again.
What is Muscle Reading? (39)
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Some students stop taking notes during a PowerPoint presentation, because they have a printed copy of the power points. These students have failed to realize this important fact.
What is PowerPoint presentations do not include everything that professors put on the class's tests? (54) Additional answers which make insightful points may be accepted.
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A student who is easily distracted should sit in this area of a classroom.
What is the front row? (55)
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This is a series of questions written by a student which helps the student predict which questions might be on a test.
What is a mock test? (70)
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This is a solution to the following problem. Your roommate does not pick up his or her things. The dorm room is extremely messy: two day old pizza on the desk, dirty clothes under the bed, flies have started to fly around your roommate's desk, and his or her trash is at least two weeks old.
What is talk to your R.A and have an intervention, room rules, or if advised by your RA consider a different roommate?
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A student looks at the table of contents, chapter outline, headings and subheadings, and searches for familiar concepts during this phase of muscle reading.
What is Preview, Phase 1. (40)
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In a classroom with a fast-talking teacher, a student can cope with this fast talking teacher by taking these two actions. (There are multiple answers the group is required to state two.)
What is take more time to prepare for class, be willing to make choices, exchange copies of notes with classmates, leave empty spaces in your notes, see the instructor after class, learn shorthand, ask questions even if you're lost? (56) Additional answers may be accepted.
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A student can do these two actions in order to earn a good class participation grade.
What is ask questions and join in class discussions? (56)
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A student should ask a teacher these two questions about a test?
What specific topics will be included on the test? What types of questions will be on the test: essay, true or false, multiple choice, or fill in the blank?
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This type of challenge involves balancing an academic and social life with work.
What is Time Management?
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A student's purpose for flagging answers by highlighting or marking in his or her book should be to...
What is mark important concepts or information that a student will want to review for a quiz or test? (42)
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When it comes to notes, more is not necessarily better. This is a way which students can take meaningful notes without writing down all of a professor's words.
What is abbreviate or capture key words? (58-59)
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A student who has unexpected car troubles or a family emergency is going to miss that day's class. What does the student specifically need to do?
What is send a polite email to the professor explaining his or her situation and asking for any missed assignments?
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Orsino earned a "D" on his biology test. Looking over the test, he realized that he misread the test directions, forgot to answer four questions, and turned in his test and left early rather than took the time to proofread his answers. Orsino made these types of errors.
What are errors due to carelessness? (74)
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This challenge occurs when a student has few face-to-face conversations and spends too much time on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.
What is Getting Offline?
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After a student reads an assigned reading, the student should complete these three phases.
What is Recite (step 6,) Review (Step 7,) and Review Again (Step 8)? (43-44)
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This method of note taking has a cue column for key questions and key words on the left side, organized notes, and a summary area at the bottom of the page.
What is Cornell Format? (60)
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What are three verbal cues which a professor might use to tell students that they need to know the following information?
What is "the most important thing is," "important," "this is on the test," etc ?
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These three steps can help students overcome math anxiety.
What is connect math to life, remember that math is cumulative, and change your conversations about math. (77)
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This challenges faces students asked by a fellow underage student, "With no one but yourself to tell you no, why not have a beer in your dorm room?".
What is Staying out of Trouble?
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During reading the assigned chapter, Viola becomes confused. She can overcome her by confusion by doing these three things. (There are many answers, but the group must list three.)
What is read it again, look for essential words, hold a mini-review, read it out loud, Talk to someone who can help, Stand up, Skip around, Find a tutor, Use another text, Note where you get stuck, Construct a word stack, Divide unfamiliar words into parts, infer the meaning of words from their context, stop reading. (45-46)
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A student can predict test questions by using these three tips.
What is look for verbal cues from your teacher, look for nonverbal cues from your teacher, create a signal to flag possible test items in your notes? (62)
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This occurs when students take another person's work and present it as the student's own written work. The consequences can be harsh: an "F" in the class or a student may be expelled from a University.
What is plagiarism? (64)
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A student calculate his or her GPA at UNK by following these steps.
What is got to the 1. UNK Website 2. Search “GPA Calculation” 3. Grade points times credit hours = total grade points. 4. Add all of your total grade points. 5. Total Grade Points divided by credit hours = GPA.
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This challenge is when a student waits to get help, even though he or she knows who to ask for help.
What is Admitting you need help?
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