Associate professors

• Think of your teachers so that they can include your name, a face Link. Strive to speak with a supervisor, especially if you have trouble in class.

• Enjoy the opportunity to use office hours for teachers. One of the aims of the election of office hours is to help students.

• Avoid irritants such as teachers:

- Sleeping in class
- Not attending class
- Not reading curriculum
- Lack of accountability
Time – Apologies do not meet
- Insincere brown nose

• Do not hesitate to ask professors to study copies of old exams for practice. The questions will vary, but usually in the style of the examination remains the same ..

Managing Time

• To quickly learn to say NO to distractions of all types (movies, parties, excessive eating, playing, etc. ..). It is the mature decision to avoid activities that you will sabotage your progress. \

• Daylight is the best time to learn and retain information.

• to ensure study for short frequent sessions that your concentration is 100% ..

• Try multitasking to squeeze more time to learn. For example, the ideal time to go into extra time student must be given without difficulty. Keep a tape of conferences in your car. Listen to or use headphones when the bus, train or carpool. This laundry service, listen to your tape study.

• 2-3 hours of work and / or study for every hour you spend in class.

• Prioritisation – Use a daily list of what you need to study; fixed hours for each item and keep it with rigor.

Exercise your brain capacity

What do you remember?

• Study the big picture, and then learn the details. Remember, the general information for specific details. A funnel narrows image with a large circle at the top. Learn and remember the concept of Major General (big picture perspective), then refine the details.

• Cramming is a waste of time because the last study, the attention she has just passed over. Cramming may be sufficient to obtain information in your short-term memory, but this information probably because the nervousness that a review can evaporate accompany. The information sent to your short-term memory is not modified until the final practiced at least at regular intervals.

• Why do we forget information?

1st We do not use the information often.
2nd Information not learned or studied properly
3rd Confusion with another material
4th Decides that the information does not match what we believe

• Steps to remember

1st Beware! Choose consciously remember. be interested! Imagine keeping a need to provide information.
2nd Take a picture in your mind that you need to learn. View.
3rd Log in and new associations between material and information flow of ideas, people, places and things you already know.
4th Repetition is the best way to learn more and remember information. Translate the information in your own words the results of the retention.

Take notes

• Basics

1st Use Loose Leaf notebook divided into sections on
2nd Title and date of each sheet of loose-leaf paper that you use
3rd In short, clear, rich notes effective than explanations
4th Collect your old class notes in a new series of notes or outline.

• Conferences

1st Avoid distractions by sitting near the front of the class.
2nd Focus on the key points of what is presented. Take notes and set them later in your own words.
3rd Ask questions about what is not clear to you.
4th To facilitate the preservation, write your class notes within 24 hours.

While college life is fun, is the main reason you remember are working: hard and learn to expand your options for the future. They are the key to your success. If you compensate for your resources properly and with tips and strategies for your weaknesses, you are likely to be smooth sailing experience, sometimes rough with the waves during your college experience.

Joan M. Azarva, is an expert Ms.ED Learning Specialist College and the mother of a son with LD / ADD, the school successfully completed. Joan, a former student of the University of Pennsylvania School of Graduate Education, worked with students with disabilities since 1975. Seventeen years Joan on the transition to higher education has focused to improve the success rate at the college in this cohort (estimated only 12-16%).