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Save Your Semester
How to Make the Most of the Remaining Days of the Semester
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GradesGrade 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?
15
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139
720
Calendar: Remaining Days
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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April
6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 1
May
2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10Exam Week
11 13 14 15 16 17
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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
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday8:00 – 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 9:05 – 9:55
9:30 – 10:45 9:30 – 10:45
MTH 112 MTH 112
10:10 – 11:00 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 12:20 – 1:10
12:30 – 1:45 12:30 – 1:45
BIO 221 BIO 221
1:25 – 2:15 1:25 – 2:15 1:25 – 2:15
2:00 – 3:15 2:00 – 3:15
2:30 – 3:20 2:30 – 3:20 2:30 – 3:20
3:30 – 4:45 3:30 – 4:45 3:35 – 4:50
HST 110 3:35 – 4:50 HST 110
BIO 221 Lab
5:00 - 6:15 5:00 - 6:15 5:05 – 6:20 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
Create Study Tools
1. Make and Use Flash Cards2. Write up Summary Sheets3. Develop a List of Examples4. Draw Maps5. Define Terms6. Predict Test Questions7. Answer those Questions8. Study old Exams or Tests9. 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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Smart students know
what they don’t know.
Seek Help
1. Professors
2. Tutors
3. Librarians
4. Classmates/Study Groups
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Study Groups
1. Invite peers to form study group
2. Inform professor
3. Determine time and place to meet
4. 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
1.Set goals
2.Plan and schedule study time.
3.Only miss classes when they absolutely have to.
4.Sit in the first three rows.
5.Use professors’ office hours.
6.Review notes, readings, and syllabus before and after each class.
7.Talk and write to learn
8.Do extra credit work if it is offered.
