College Tips
College tips on study skills, essay writing, financial aid and scholarships as well as test taking, college time management and majors such as nursing.
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Test Taking Strategies
Tips on how to prepare for, take and follow up on your college test.
Tips on Entering College
Statistics tell us that one in every four college freshmen drop out! There are many reasons given for this high rate, but they all boil down to one thing: many excellent high school students are just not mature enough to handle the environment.
A Non-Traditional Student's Guide to College
More and more students over traditional age are returning to college expecting to sharpen skills, learn new skills, or simply add a degree to help retain or obtain a job. These students are often quite worried about the college experience, some of them not having attended at all when they were younger and feeling they don’t know what to expect. But their fears often turn out to be nothing to worry about.
Study
Tips: Effective Study Habits
College
tips: Effective study habits are essential for achieving and
maintaining a high GPA in college. More importantly, effective study
habits help you to store information in long-term memory, allowing
you to use the learned information in a novel setting.
Learn Anatomy
To learn anatomy you need to repeatably expose yourself to the systems you are trying to learn in different formats. On this page there are some videos on the anatomy of the human body.
Standardized
Test Taking Tips
At some point in your life, you’ll
probably have to take a standardized test. No matter which
standardized test you’re preparing to take, these college test
taking tips will help you do your best. Information and tips on the
SAT
and CLEP tests
Writing
An Excellent Essay
Essay writing rates up there with giving
the cat a bath for most students and people for that matter. There is
something about taking educational information and regurgitating the
facts into an essay that can be unnerving. The language, structure,
punctuation and format must be correct as well as appropriate or that
red pen will walk all across that essay.
How to Study Anatomy And Physiology
Anatomy and Physiology courses are often used as a "weeding" class. This means the class will "weed out" students who are not doing well or realize that this is just too much to handle. If studying was easy and casual before, now is the time that serious studying needs to be done.
This page also has a sign up form for free a five day A and P mini class.
Memory
Systems
As students, we all need to learn and memorize
information. Below are the basic concepts of learning and
memorization. I can't over emphasize the importance of the spacing
effect.
Student
Survival Guide
A college student guide fill of college tips
including: Learning to study effective manner,college time
management, writing papers, how to set and accomplish goals, college
test taking tips, paying for college and much more.
Ten
College Tips
To most students, college is a shocking
transition. As far as academics go, any handholding that went on
during your high school days is done now. Students are completely
responsible for their own success or failure. And as far as your
social life goes goes, Mom and Dad aren’t around to help you
make decisions about money, alcohol, or how to get along with your
roommate.
Hang in there! If you didn’t feel overwhelmed
by your freshman year of college, you wouldn’t be normal. To
help you out, here are ten simple tips that will help you have a
fabulous college experience.
Reducing
Test Anxiety
The following eight tips will help you reduce
your test anxiety and receive the grade you earned.
Basic
Grammar Review
College tips: Don't let yourself feel
discouraged that you did not learn grammar
earlier in life. The main thing to focus on is that you are learning
grammar now. Learning grammar will shape anyone into a better writer,
reader, and overall student. So, let’s get started! FREE
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Becoming
a Nurse / College Tips for Nursing Students
I became a nurse
to help people. It is as simple as that. From the time I was a very
little girl, I would tell everyone who would listen, that I was going
to have a profession in medicine.
Tips For College General Education Classes
Any college degree you pursue is going to require you to take general education classes. General education provides the foundation of knowledge needed to support further learning for the most part. A few general education classes are put there "to make you a more well rounded person."
Tips for Math Class
If it has been a while since you last math class do not assume that you can pick up where you left off.
Tips
for College Students: Reading Textbooks
So you want to go to
college, but you don’t really like reading. Unfortunately, many
degree plans require you to take reading-intensive classes like
English Literature and history. If you want to get through those
classes with the best-possible grade, these tips will help you make
the most of your reading time...
Study Tips For Struggling Students
The first thing any successful student must do when cultivating study habits
is develop a responsible attitude, and fortunately, responsibility is not
something that is inherited.
Basic
Math Review
Throughout life, almost everyone forgets the math
basics we learned in grade school. Like riding a bike, a quick
refresher course often is all it takes to help us remember how to
solve arithmetic and algebra problems. This brief review is designed
to help you brush up on fractions, decimals, ratios and basic
algebra.
Winning
College Scholarships: Five Tips
Whether
you're applying for an undergraduate degree or a graduate degree,
winning college scholarship money can go a long way toward helping to
pay your educational expenses. Here are five tips to help you apply
for and win scholarship dollars.
Money
and College
Financial issues are one of the top reasons that
students do not complete or return to school. We will look at three
aspects of money management and college life: financial aid,
budgeting and money saving tips.
Eight
steps to choose the right online degree. Is distance learning right
for you?
Online education is not for everyone. That is why it
is essential that you take a look at your own personal capabilities
and weigh them against the course requirements. Whate are the
benefits and drawbacks involved with an online degree? Online
colleges offer a lot a flexibility and opportunities but choosing the
wrong online college can be a waste of time and money.
College
Tips: Time Management and College
Here are few tips for time
management at college. If you use these tips properly, you will stay
time management. If you use these tips properly, you will stay ahead
of the game and get your work done in time.
LPN
to a RN or BSN
Whether
you're starting your nursing education from scratch or currently an
LPN (a licensed practical nurse with one year of education under your
belt), you have a major decision to make concerning whether to become
RN (registered nurse) and/or get your BSN (Bachelor of Science in
Nursing), or even continue your education at all, for that matter.
Going
back to School for the Older Adult
Going back to school for
the older adult is not easy, but it's not impossible. The most
important question to consider is why. Why do you want to go back to
school? What is it that you would like to accomplish?
Just
because the college is accredited…
Don’t blow
your money or Pell Grant on an overpriced substandard education. Any
school you are considering attending must at the very least be
regionally accredited. Chea.org
is the website on accreditation
Preparing
For College
Any student that follow these steps will certainly
be prepared for their first semester of college. Nothing’s more
important to a student’s college career than getting through
their first year, once they’ve made it that far the rest will
follow. These tips to college success works for any student
regardless if it’s their first year or their fifth.
Mass
Communications Major
If you find yourself critiquing
commercials as you see them or thinking about the ways that product
advertisements differ based on the type of program or time of day,
then a mass communications major may be just the career field for you
to pursue.
United
States Constitution 101
This guide helps explain the articles
and amendments of the US Constitution
Traits
of a student who is likely to fail.
The failing student
expects the instructor to “teach them” the material.
Students that are the most successful take ownership of the learning
process, and view their instructor as the facilitator of the
learning.
Ten
Ways I plan to learn Spanish
I plan on learning Spanish in the
near future, for career reasons and also for traveling. Here are ten
ways I plan to augment the classroom study.
Older
College Student
Returning to school at a later age has many
challenges, as well as rewards. To succeed, you must have
persistence, perseverance and determination.
Why
I Still Want a College Education
By Single Mom
I do
not have a college education.On applications I select “13”
for my level of education, High School with some college.
How
to get in good with your Professor
I suggest math, science,
engineering students take a few obvious and simple steps to enhance
your connection to your professor.
Learning
a Foreign Language
Learning a language is not an easy thing to
do. It requires effort and enthusiasm. How much you take away
from a language study depends on how much caring is put into the
process.