Select you Course

Selecting Your Courses

Recommended Classes for College Success

Part 1

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The academic rigor of your high school courses is an important factor in the college admission process. College admission officers see your high school source schedule as a blue print of your education. They’re looking for a solid foundation of learning that you can build on in college.

  To create the foundation, take at least five solid academic classes every semester. Start with the basics and then move on to advanced courses. Challenging yourself is part of what makes school fun; but you need a firm grasp of the fundamentals before going on to more advanced work.

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Goals and Construction

Student Success Statement

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

Thomas Carlyle

A man with no set goal is a man without a operating system. The individual will not fully function without his main component.

Study Groups

The Power of Study Groups

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Part 4

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 literate person. 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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Crossbar Challenge

Student Success Statement

Goals, "In life as in futbol, you won't go far, unless you know where the goalposts are."

Arnold Glasgow

The runway of life should be ran with set goals( set pieces/ futbol) aiming to hit them. Distance will be short without these goals; set goals and travel far. Take short cuts and you'll be cut short.

Study Groups

The Power of Study Groups

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

Part 1

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 our 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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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."

-Albert A. Montapert

Your choice come with an outcome being a consequence. The outcome is inevitable you won'y be able to escape it, deny it, or even ignore those consequences.

College Study

How to Take on College Studying

Part 3

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 learned from each assignment you read.

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