10 Routine Survival Tips

Strategies to Keep You Afloat

Don‘t schedule back to back classes You’ll wear

yourself out besides missing the best times to study--RIGHT BEFORE and RIGHT AFTER CLASS.

BEGIN THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS

Know What’s Expected of You.

Take Notes

Keep a Date Book

Make a To Do List

ESTABLISH A ROUTINE TIME TO STUDY FOR EACH CLASS. Two hoursTwo hours for every

Hour in class Studying at the same

time programs your mind to improve concentration

Don’t just do homework. Go over notes. Study syllabus.

Establish a place to study each subject

Free of Distractions

It should not be a place that you routinely do other things.

It should be your STUDY PLACE

Do as much study in daylight as possible.

What takes an hour to do in daylight may take you as long as an hour and a half at night.

Take Study Breaks

Take a ten minutes break after every hour of study

Avoid long blocks of time for studying.

Spread studying throughout the day.

Make Use of Campus Resources Find out about

lab, tutors, videos, computer programs and alternate texts.

Get to know your professors and advisors.

Ask questions.

Find at Least One or Two Students in Each Class to Study With

List several reasons why this isworth the effort

List several places that you could makeYour routine study place.

List some campus resources have you already used.

Work on hardest subjects at a time when you are fresh.

Putting it off until you’re tired compounds the problem.

Be Good to Yourself. Studying on four

hours of sleep and an empty stomach or junk food diet is a waste of time.

Avoid food and drink containing caffeine just before or just after studying.

Taking Notes Draw lines Write no more than necessary in

order to remember what was said After class -play jeopardy with

notes Write Questions in margin

When Reading Read in short sessions Stop at end of each paragraph Play jeopardy with that paragraph

What is a possible test question? Why did the author include that paragraph?

Write the question in the margin Then underline as few words as possible

to answer it.

If you haven’t already started taking notes

Begin Now

Set your paper up Even if it’s just a word or two about

each topic to help you remember, for the rest of class take notes.

As soon as possible after class label each section with an appropriate question

List some similarities you see betweenThe system for taking note and the system for reading your textbook.

List any reasons you can think of forNot using either system beginning TODAY.