Take Control of Homework So It Doesn’t Control You

Take Control of Homework

So It Doesn’t Control You

Part 3

Take Advantage of Any Free Time

If you have a study period or a long bus ride, use the time to review notes, prepare for an upcoming class or start your homework. Flash cards are a great learning tool. They are easy to make, easy to handle, and are a marvelous tool to help you learn and remember anything. Punch a hole in the upper left corner of each index card and connect the stack of your flash cards with a ring. Then the cards are bound and not flopping around. Flash cards bound like this act like a small book with pages. You can even have separate ringed stacks for each subject. WHATEVER YOU WANT TO REMEMBER, PUT IT ON A CARD.

Study With A Friend

Get together with friends and classmates to quiz each other, compare notes and predict test questions. Consider joining a study group.

Communicate

If you have concerns about the type of homework you have, you may want to talk to your family, teachers, or counselor. They can help you understand how much time you need to allow for homework and how to manage your tasks.

Celebrate Your Achievements

Reward yourself for hitting milestones or doing something well.

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Selecting Your Courses

Selecting Your Courses

Recommended Classes for College Success

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/33.html

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Social Studies

You can better understand local world events that are happening now by studying the culture and history that has them. Here is a suggested course plan:

·     U.S. History (two semesters)

·     U.S. Government (one semester)

·     World History or Geography (one semester)

·     One additional semester in the above or other areas

Foreign Languages

Solid foreign language study shows colleges you’re willing to stretch beyond the basics. Many colleges require at least two years of study in the same foreign language, and some prefer more.

Learning a foreign language can be a challenge but is exciting. Repetition is the key to learning a new language, and having conversations with others speaking the same language is the best way to learn this new language. Repetition in fun way will build your skills thoroughly as you seek to master new languages.

 

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Selecting Your Courses

Selecting Your Courses

Recommended Classes for College Success

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/33.html

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Science

Science teaches you to think analytically and apply theories to reality. Colleges want to see that you’ve taken at least three years of laboratory science classes. A good combination includes two semesters of each of the following sciences:

·     Biology

·     Chemistry

·     Earth/Space Science

More competitive schools expect you to take four years of lab science courses. You can add two semesters in one of the following subjects:

·     Chemistry or Physics (the science you didn’t already study)

·     Advanced Biology

·     Advanced Chemistry

·     Advanced Physics

 

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The Power of Study Groups

The Power of Study Groups

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/50432.html

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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’re going to do in advance

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

·     Take turns teaching, to reinforce your own knowledge.

·     Stick to the session topic.

By supplementing your individual study with a study group, you can reinforce what you’ve 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 to achieve on a high level, one who pushes 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 friends, (they are actually your enemies), and you must avoid them at all cost. Whoever said learning can’t be fun? Learning is enjoyable and exciting when you study with others.

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The Power of Study Groups

The Power of Study Groups

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/50432.html

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Guidelines for Getting a Group Together

Here are some guidelines for creating and running a study group:

How many? Create a group of four to six people. In a larger group, it’s easy for someone to get left out and smaller groups can too easily get off track.

Who? Pick classmates who seem to share your interest in doing well academically. Look for people who stay alert in class, take notes, ask questions and respond to the teacher’s questions. Include someone who understands the material better than you and can explain the concepts and someone who doesn’t understand it as well, to whom you can explain the material.

Where? Hold study group sessions in a place that is free of distractions and that has room to spread out books and notes.

How long? Meet for no more than two to three hours at a time. Having a time limit helps the group focus. If you know you only have an, hour you’re more likely to stay on task.

When? Try to meet regularly, on the same day and time each week. Treating the study sessions as you would other activities helps you to keep to a schedule and ensures that everyone attends.

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The Power of Study Groups

The Power of Study Groups

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/50432.html

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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 results in making members supportive of one another.

Socialize. It’s 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!

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The Power of Study Groups

The Power of Study Groups

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/50432.html

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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 another’s—and in the process you most likely learn more than you would have studying by yourself.

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How to Take on College Studying

How to Take on College Studying

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/961.html

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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 that 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 have learned from each assignment you read.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Success is dependent on effort.”

Sophocles, Greek dramatist

I think that this statement is very true. There is no success without effort and the effort that you put into it is the success that you will receive. For example, if you don’t put that much effort into school, then you won’t receive good grades or a diploma for graduation, instead, you will be presented with a report card that says you failed classes. It all depends how willing you are and how much effort you want to put into something, effort is success.

How to Take on College Studying

How to Take on College Studying

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/961.html

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Choose Where to Study

Where you should study depends on two factors: the environment in which you are able to concentrate and the type of work you are planning to do.

·     The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough desk space—usually your dorm room, your apartment or the library.

·     For completing problem sets or brainstorming possible test questions, you may want to study with a group or at least in a setting where fellow students are available for discussion.

·     When you are reading book chapters or working on a research paper you are probably better off in a less social environment.

Improve Your Study Habits

Here are simple steps you can take to help you get a handle on studying:

·     Have a routine for where and when you study.

·     Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for each study session.

·     Do things that are harder or require more intense thought at your most productive time of the day.

·     Take breaks if you need them so you don’t waste your time looking at material but not absorbing it.

·     Get to know students whom you respect and can study with or contact to ask questions.

·     Keep up with the work load and seek help when you need it.

AP Study Notes

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