Study Smarter
This common study tool has a question or term on one side and its answer or definition on the other.
What are flashcards?
Known by the abbreviation LRC, this BMCC center provides free tutoring and other academic support services.
What is the Learning Resource Center?
Most adults need approximately seven to nine hours of this activity each night to support memory, concentration, and overall health.
What is sleep?
These written directions at the beginning of an exam should be read carefully before answering any questions.
What are instructions?
This common emotional response to exams can involve nervousness, racing thoughts, and fear of poor performance.
What is test anxiety?
This ineffective study habit involves trying to learn large amounts of material the night before an exam.
What is cramming?
This BMCC service helps students brainstorm, organize, draft, and revise essays and other writing assignments.
What is the Writing Center?
This organ, weighing approximately three pounds in the average adult, controls thinking, memory, emotions, and learning.
What is the brain?
This test-taking strategy involves answering easier questions first and returning to difficult questions later.
What is the skip-and-return strategy?
This relaxation technique involves slowly inhaling and exhaling to help calm your body during stressful situations.
What is deep breathing?
This study habit involves writing down important information during class so it can be reviewed later.
What is note-taking?
This BMCC office provides confidential counseling services to students experiencing emotional or psychological difficulties.
What is the Counseling Center?
This everyday device can disrupt concentration through notifications, social media, and text messages while students study.
What is a cell phone?
This multiple-choice strategy involves ruling out answers you know are incorrect before selecting the best remaining option.
What is the process of elimination?
This hormone, produced by the adrenal glands, is commonly called the body's primary stress hormone.
What is cortisol?
This time-management technique uses 25 minutes of focused studying followed by a five-minute break.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
Named after the college's mascot, this BMCC resource provides food assistance to students experiencing food insecurity.
What is the Panther Pantry?
This activity, which can include walking, dancing, or playing basketball, can improve mood, concentration, and memory.
What is exercise?
This strategy involves dividing the available exam time among different sections based on their length, difficulty, or point value.
What is time management?
This psychological quality describes the ability to recover and adapt after setbacks, challenges, or difficult experiences.
What is resilience?
Instead of spending equal time reviewing everything, this strategy involves spending extra time on the topics you understand the least.
What is focusing on your weaknesses?
Commonly abbreviated ARC, this BMCC office connects students with resources to address basic needs and other challenges that interfere with academic success.
What is the Advocacy and Resource Center?
This ability allows students to ignore distractions and concentrate on one assignment or activity.
What is focus or concentration?
Before writing a long essay response, students can use this technique to organize their main ideas and supporting evidence into a brief structure.
What is outlining?
This positive way of thinking focuses on what can be learned from mistakes rather than believing that intelligence and abilities are permanently fixed.
What is a growth mindset?