successful student

Successful students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students…

1.      Responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you experience, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of there learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning that the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.      Educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires. Ask yourself  these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here right now? Is there some better place right now that I can be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “hot buttons” and are without a doubt , the most  important factors in your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone elses, they will motivate an active and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar to what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can and will

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