4GETTING THE MOST OUT OF CLASS
- Become engaged in learning
- Prepare for learning before class
- Participate in class by listening critically and speaking up
- Assess and improve your note-taking skills
- Review your notes and textbook materials soon after class
5READING TO LEARN FROM COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS
- Apply the four steps in active reading: previewing, marking, reading with concentration, and reviewing
- Use strategies for reading textbooks across different subject areas
- Improve and monitor your reading and develop your vocabulary
6STUDYING, UNDERSTANDING, AND REMEMBERING
- Learn how to make good choices for better concentration and efficient studying
- Understand how memory works and become familiar with myths about memory
- Learn skills to improve your ability to remember
7TAKING TESTS SUCCESSFULLY
- Prepare yourself for tests and exams academically, physically, and emotionally
- Learn how to approach taking different types of tests
- Recognize the symptoms of test anxiety and gain strategies to handle them
- Understand what cheating is, how and why to avoid it, and guidelines for academic honesty
- Understand what it means to be information literate
- Learn how to choose a research topic, narrow it down, and research it
- Know how to use your college library and with assistance from librarians
- Apply the guidelines for evaluating sources
- Learn strategies to find the materials and information you need for a research project
- Gain an understanding of how to move from research to writing and use each step of the writing process
- Learn the guidelines for successful public speaking