Planning Academic Success

Smart goal

A SMART Goal is a specific,measurable,attainable, relevant, and time bound goal you want to achieve in life.

Active Listening

Acrive listening is fully responding,listening, and understanding what somebody is saying.

Learning Styles

The specific type of learner a person is. Visual, auditory, writing/reading, and hands-on.

Time management

The way you allocate your available time to accomplish tasks and goals. It involves planning, prioritizing, and organizing.

Managing stress

Take deep breaths, be mindful and optimistic, and have positive feelings.

Reading strategies

Three Pass Reading, SQ3R, and Skimming

SQ3R

Survey, question, read, recite, and review

Tree pass reading

Preview the title and author, read the full text without stopping, re read line by line while annotations and highlighting

Skimming

Only look at the specific main points and keywords to get the overview.

Health management

Sleep to 8-10 hours a day, have a good diet, a good bed routine, and exercise.

Memorization Strategies

Follow RAMPS. Repetition, Association, Memory place, Same old strategy.

Creative thinking

Exploring many possibilities and going beyond basic ideas

Analytical thinking

Breaking things down into smaller pieces, categorizing, and identifying patterns for connections.

Critical thinking

Accepting and considering other perspectives, assumptions and bias, and drawing conclusions based on evidence.

Creative thinking process

Create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember.

Goal setting

A structured and clear plan to reach your goal.

Planning for career

Take a self assessment, explore the occupations, analyze your skills and job requirements, and action

plan to read

Spend some time preparing to read, treat reading seriously, organize assignments by size, importance, and completion.

Note taking methods

Cornell, web, and outlining

Cultural Competence

The ability to understand, appreciate and interact with people from different cultures or beliefs.

Writing essays

Plan what to write, drafting, edit. Intro, body paragraphs, and conclusion.