Health and Wellness
Test Taking Skills
Key Terms
Note Taking Strategies
100

Physical or mental strain occurring in reaction to pressure

What is Stress?

100

A method for studying that includes surveying, questioning, reading, reciting, and reviewing

What is SQ3R?

100

Result we intend to reach through our own actions

What is a Goal?

100

Note taking system with a main concept in the center with arrows connecting supporting ideas

What is a Concept Map?

200

The most addictive substance we know

What is Nicotine?

200

The number of hours a student should study outside of class, if they are taking 18 credit hours

What is 36?

200

A psychological condition in which a person feels distress before, during, or after a test or exam

What is Test Anxiety?

200

Note taking system with questions on the left, notes on the right, and a summary at the bottom    

What is the Cornell Method?

300

Balance of body, mind, and sprit

What is the Triangle of Life?

300

Assessment with the objective to make sure you know the fundamental material before moving on to more challenging topics

What is a Formative Assessment?

300

A student who comes directly from high school, who is used to studying, and might find the transition to college easier

What is a Traditional Student?

300

Stage of learning cycle that includes taking notes

What is Capturing?

400

A mental state in which you stop what you’re doing and focus on what you are feeling and thinking in the present moment without making any judgments on goals

What is Mindfulness?

400

Type of fit that involves getting 8 hours of sleep and eating well before a test

What is Physically Fit?

400

The ability to get information, break it down, analyze it, and use it help make a decision or solve a problem

What is Critical Thinking?

400

The learning style that prefers images and spatial relationships, including concept maps

What is Visual?

500

Eating excessive amounts of food followed by purging

What is Bulimia?

500

Words or phrases that call attention to the material that follows

What are Verbal Signposts?

500

When you let your mind wander in search of solution

What is Divergent Thinking?

500

Closely related to note taking

What is Listening?