Study Strategies
Reading Strategies
Financial Literacy
Degree Requirements
MISCELLANEOUS
100
This involves studying for shorter intervals over a longer period of time.
What is distributed practice?
100
This is what PSAR stands for.
What is Prepare, Survey, Annotate, Review?
100
Financial literacy involves this.
What is understanding how to earn, save, and spend money.
100
The number of credit hours required to earn the Associate in Arts or Associate in Science degree.
What is 60 or 61?
100
What kinds of things should be noted during class?
What is anything that SOARS (singled out, on the board, asked, repeated, or stressed) ?
200
This strategy is useful when you have a large volume of information to review or when there are multiple pieces of information to remember for a single concept.
What are flash cards?
200
This refers to taking notes as you read.
What is annotating?
200
Financial experts suggest that you have this many months of money set aside for emergencies.
What is 3 to 6 months?
200
Name four schools to which you can transfer under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement.
What are Appalachian State, East Carolina, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Pembroke, UNC-Wilmington, NC State, NC Central, Fayetteville State, Elizabeth City State, NC A & T, NC School of the Arts, Western Carolina, and Winston-Salem State.
200
True or false – Students are not required to take a math class to earn the Associate in Arts degree.
What is false? Students must take one math class to earn the AA degree (either MAT 143, 152 or 171).
300
The ideal number of people for a study group
What is 3 to 5?
300
This is how much time you should allow when reading a college textbook.
What is at least 3 to 4 minutes a page?
300
Name three things you can do to protect your credit score.
Q:What is pay bills on time, hold onto credit cards you have had for a while, avoid applying for new credit cards, pay off your credit card balance every month, and avoid using your credit cards as a source of cash.
300
These two English classes are required for both the Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees.
What are ENG 111 and ENG 112?
300
The “K” in a KWL chart stands for this.
What is Know?
400
These are all types of mneumonic devices.
What are acronyms, acrostic sentences, and rhymes?
400
This is the best reason to annotate as you read.
What is it allows you to actively engage with the material, which leads to better recall.
400
FAFSA stands for this.
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
400
This elective class is required for both the Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degree.
What is ACA 122?
400
This involves targeted studying for a specific assessment.
What is preparation studying?
500
These are all examples of visual organizers.
What are concept maps, Venn diagrams, and informal outlines?
500
When surveying a chapter, you should do this.
What is look at chapter headings and subheadings?
500
True or false – All public UNC system universities charge the same tuition.
What is False? Tuition rates vary by school, even among the public schools in NC.
500
True or false – Each university in the UNC system decides how to accept courses designated as Universal General Education Transfer Component courses.
What is false? Courses defined as UGETC will be accepted as general education courses at all 16 UNC system universities.
500
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is an example of this.
What is an acrostic sentence?