Save Your Semester
How to Make the Most of the Remaining
Days of the Semester
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Grades
Grade
Level of Accomplishment
Quality Points
A
Highest Level of Work
4.00
A-
3.67
B+
3.33
B
Better than Average Work
3.00
B-
2.67
C+
2.33
C
Average Work
2.00
C-
1.67
D+
1.33
D
1.00
D-
Minimum Level of Passing Work
0.67
E
Failing Work
0.00
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Grades
Semester Honors
Dean’s List = 3.40-3.69
Dean’s with Honors = 3.70-3.99
President’s List = 4.0
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How Many Class Days Left?
20
15
7
9
13
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Calendar: Remaining Days
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
5
April
6
7
8
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10
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May
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Exam
Week
5
What do you need to do?
1. Schedule Your Time
2. Create Study Tools
3. Identify Gaps in Knowledge
4. Seek Help
5. Learn Test-Taking Strategies
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Schedule Your Time
1. Identify the blank spaces in your week.
2. Schedule blocks of time for each class.
3. Plan specifically what you will accomplish
during each block.
4. Choose a study place.
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Schedule Study Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
8:00 – 8:50
8:00 – 9:15
8:00 – 8:50
8:00 – 9:15
8:00 – 8:50
9:05-9:55
9:05 – 9:55
9:30 – 10:45
MTH 112
10:10 – 11:00
9:05 – 9:55
9:30 – 10:45
MTH 112
10:10 – 11:00
10:10 – 11:00
PSH 110
PSH 110
PSH 110
11:00 – 12:15
11:00 – 12:15
11:15 – 12:05
11:15 – 12:05
11:15 – 12:05
THE 232
THE 232
THE 232
12:20 – 1:10
12:20 – 1:10
12:30 – 1:45
BIO 221
1:25 – 2:15
BIO 221
1:25 – 2:15
2:00 – 3:15
2:30 – 3:20
1:25 – 2:15
2:00 – 3:15
2:30 – 3:20
3:30 – 4:45
3:35 – 4:50
12:20 – 1:10
12:30 – 1:45
HST 110
2:30 – 3:20
3:30 – 4:45
3:35 – 4:50
HST 110
BIO 221 Lab
5:00 - 6:15
5:05 – 6:20
5:00 - 6:15
5:05 – 6:20
6:35 – 7:50 or
6:30 – 7:45 or
6:35 – 7:50 or
6:30 – 7:45 or
6:30 – 9:15
6:30 – 9:15
6:30 – 9:15
6:30 – 9:15
8:05 – 9:20
8:00 – 9:15
8:05 – 9:20
8:00 – 9:15
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Create Study Tools
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Make and Use Flash Cards
Write up Summary Sheets
Develop a List of Examples
Draw Maps
Define Terms
Predict Test Questions
Answer those Questions
Study old Exams or Tests
Recite (written and verbal)
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Tips for Creating Study Tools
1. Paraphrase material.
2. Look for themes and ideas that repeat
across lectures, chapters, and class
discussions.
3. Identify gaps in your understanding.
4. Use titles and headings to categorized the
information.
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Former Tests as Study Tool
1. Use corrected tests as a study tool for future tests
and examinations
2. Compare test topics to textbook and lecture notes.
3. Read instructors’ comments and suggestions.
4. Study the language of the tests and the type of
critical thinking each question calls for, such as
comparing, defining, proving, etc.
5. Predict Test Questions based on what you know
about previous tests (play teacher) and answer them.
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Identify Gaps in Knowledge
1. Mark sections of notes that you do not
understand.
2. Mark sections of textbooks that you do not
understand.
3. Review tests and quizzes to determine what
else you may not understand.
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Seek Help
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3.
4.
Professors
Tutors
Librarians
Classmates/Study Groups
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Study Groups
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Invite peers to form study group
Inform professor
Determine time and place to meet
Articulate purpose of meeting(s)
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Study Groups
Assign study guide tasks for each member
1. Summary Sheets
2. Outlines
3. Test Question Predictions
4. Key Concepts/Definitions/Examples
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Test-taking Strategies
1. Scope of Subject Matter
2. Type of Questions
3. Test-taking Strategies DVD’s
4. Practice: Writing, Talking,
Predicting/Answering questions
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Active Learners
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Set goals
Plan and schedule study time.
Only miss classes when they absolutely have to.
Sit in the first three rows.
Use professors’ office hours.
Review notes, readings, and syllabus before and
after each class.
Talk and write to learn
Do extra credit work if it is offered.