Student Success Statement

“ A man without a goal is like a ship

Without a rudder”

-Thomas Carlyle

This comparison of between a man and a boat is used to emphasize how one cannot go anywhere without a destination or goal. Before you can accomplish something great you have to make a goal, and in order to get to your goal you have to make the right choices and follow the right steps. If you don’t make any goals don’t expect success just to come to you. An example of this could be a person who dreams of being a professional basketball player. If he makes it his goal and takes steps to getting there, then he will get there someday. If however you don’t know what you want to do and make no effort to try and find something you want to do , the your chances of being successful won’t be very high

The power of Study Groups

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Getting the most out of a session

Here are some tips to help your group get the most out of each study session:

·         Decide what you are going to do in advance

·         Prepare for the session, so you can make the most of your time together

·         Take turn teaching, to reinforce your knowledge.

·         Stick to the session topic.

By supplementing your individual study with a group, you can reinforce what you have learned, deepen your understanding of complex concepts, and maybe even make a few new friends. Remember that a friend is a person who encourages you to do your best and achieve on a high level, one who pushes for you to try a little harder and be a little better. If someone pulls you down the wrong trails of life, then those people are not your friends, (they are actually your enemies), and you must avoid them at all costs. Whoever said learning can’t be fun? Learning is enjoyable and exciting when you study with others.

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Working together helps everyone

You may have noticed that when you’re explaining something you’ve learned to a friend, you begin to understand it better yourself. This happens because, when you explain an idea, you need to think more deeply about it.

The same principle makes study groups useful. Studying with others in a small group is helpful because you:

·         Think out loud

·         Share ideas

·         Learn from one another

In an effective study group, you and other students hash out lesson materials together – explaining concepts, arguing about them, figuring out why one person’s answer differs from anothers – and in the process you most likely learn more than you would have.

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The benefits of study groups

Group study offers other advantages in addition to gaining a deeper understanding of class material. These include the opportunity to: Reinforce note-taking.  If your AP biology notes are unclear, you can ask a member of your study group to help you fill the gaps. Share talents. Each person brings different strengths, such as organizational skills, the ability to stick to a task or capacity for memorization.

Cover more ground. Group members may be able to solve a calculus problem together that none would have solved alone. Benefit from a support system. Members often have common goals, such as good grades. Each person’s work affects the other members, which will result of making members supportive of one another. Socialize. It is more fun to study with others; the give and take makes it more interesting. And because it’s more fun, you spend more time studying!

Choose the right

Student Success Statement

“In life as in football you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are”.

-Arnold Glasgow

Reflection

What this statement is trying to tell us is that we have to set goals. Long term and sort term goals. Simply setting goals will improve your chances of becoming successful. For example if you want to be a doctor set goals such as, do well in all my classes, study hard, choose the right. If you do that then you will be well on your way to becoming a doctor. On the other hand if you don’t set any goals you will always be simply wondering around, without a sense of direction. You won’t go far if you don’t set goals, good ones.  

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                                            Reflection

The video walk the talk inspired me to follow through with my commitments. If you say you are going to do something, do it. Don’t stray from your goal. If you say you will do the right, that is great but what is more important is to follow that through with your actions. This video has inspired me to do the best that I can and give everything 100 percent.

Student Success Statement

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”

-Albert A. Montapert

Reflection

There are many things that you can avoid facing but the consequences of your choices are not one of them. They will follow you were ever you go. They can be good or bad. If you want to those consequences to be good then do what is right. If you choose do wrong those consequences will be bad. They will cause you great difficulties. Choose the right and you will see things simply fall into place.

How to take on college studying

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Do the reading

You need to do more than just read the chapters you are assigned—you’re expected to understand them thoroughly. Here are some tips:

·         Don’t skim. Read all the material carefully.

·         Break up difficult assignments into sections you can digest – chapters, subsections, or even paragraphs

·         Look up any words you don’t understand

·         Pause to think about whether you understand the material; ask questions in class about anything that is unclear.

·         Take notes instead of highlighting—this makes you think through and rephrase the key points.

·         Create a summary sheet of what you learned from each assignment you read.

Choose the right