Your Academic Situation
This is the minimum cumulative GPA a student needs to be in good academic standing at OU.
What is 2.00?
Researcher Carol Dweck describes this belief: your basic qualities can be cultivated through your efforts.
What is growth mindset?
According to OU data, this is the best predictor of a student's grade.
What is class attendance?
As a general rule, college students should aim for at least this many hours of sleep each night.
What is seven? (up to nine)
Though a partnership with MidFirst Bank, every incoming OU student is assigned one of these to help plan how to pay for school.
What is a MoneyCoach?
This is the number of Ws (withdrawals) that an OU student can receive.
5
Taking a class because you find the topic fascinating is this type of motivation, generally more powerful than it's opposite.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This note-taking method divides the page into three sections: Notes, Big Ideas, and Summary
What is the Cornell Method?
To protect your sleep, the strategies workbook recommends to cut off caffeine this many hours before bedtime.
What is eight hours?
In John Holland's theory, individuals fall into one or more of this many different personality and interest types.
What is six?
This is the last week to withdraw from 16-week classes at OU with an automatic "W" on their transcript.
What is Week 12?
Specific, Measurable, Attainable/Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound
Studying one hour a day for 20 days beats studying 10 hours a day for two days, because the brain learns best in short sessions spread over time. This is the name for that approach.
What is distributed (spaced) learning?
Getting social support, exercising, and making a gratitude list are examples of this type of coping.
What is emotion-focused coping?
This is the name of an on-campus resource that can work with you to explore majors and careers.
What is the Center for Major and Career Exploration?
This term describes the ability to recover positively and quickly from difficulty and adversity.
What is resiliency?
Like a muscle, this ability to control your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors gets strong with practice but can be drained by the end of the day.
What is self-regulation?
Our class workbook says this is not about laziness but is an emotional response to a task that feels overwhelming, unclear, or negative.
What is procrastination?
These are the three main types of stress.
What is
acute stress (short-term, immediate)
episodic acute stress (frequent, chaotic)
chronic stress (long-term, grinding)
Current OU students apply for most university scholarships through this online platform, known by a four-letter acronym.
What is CASH (Centralized Academic Scholarship Hub)?
A student with fewer than 30 hours attempted and a 1.85 GPA falls into this academic standing.
What is Academic Notice?
(1.70-1.99 with under 30 hours)
This describes the awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.
What is meta-cognition?
The 5-Day Study Plans estimates this range of study hours may be needed to earn an A or B on an exam.
What is 8 to 10 hours?
Sleeping only four to five hours roughly quadruples crash risk - on par with this.
What is driving legally intoxicated?
Under OU's Satisfactory Academic Progress policy, a student enrolled in 15 hours in fall and 15 in spring must successfully complete this many hours.
What is 21?
30 credit hours X 70% completion