The week ahead...although finals are here, my work load is coming to a gradual nonexistent phase. however, there are still project to finish and complete. With that being said my plans for study skills/ reading strategies are this: to do lists, SQ3R, note cards, time managing, and paraphrasing.
In my counseling class much to my surprise we will be having a final, so in order to prepare for this I will be looking over each of my chapters and their main topics and attempting to paraphrase them in order to make sure that I know my stuff. this will prepare for the final and give me reason to show that I am prpared for the ending test. All the while, while giving me a little stress relief.
In my math class I will continue to use and study daily 3X5 cards. This will help through consitency to remeber and be able to visualize the cards and thier definitons upon being tested. I find that this helps greatly with remebering and being able to see the card as I am actually testing.
In my english class we are preparing for the final in class essay, so I will be disecting an essay and a movie and developing my thoughts into a paper. My paln is to use the SQ3R for the essay that needs to be read so that I can really have alot of time put into thinking about the topic I will be required to write about.
Alll through the week time managment will be extremly important, as all of my classes will need time designated to them for finals preparation. To do lists will and are a daily part of my regimine, as Heather Halverson said "It does feel quite rewarding just to cross things off, a true high".
In consideration to my post last week: what helped was the actual writing things down. I try my best to be a girl of my word, so haing it here publicly published even, made me hughly accountable. Hence, for the most part I did what I said I was going to do. All except study the math 3X5 cards and that was because after seeing the teacher I was told I caould use the formulas fromthe book (I didn't have to have them memorized). This was great news! Well one thing I am doing differently, unfortunately will be to turn this assignment in on time. As I sit in front of the computer Sunday evenig at 8:56 p.m. sadly it is too late to recieve credit for this. Although, having a to do list I conviently did not pay it much attention the past two days. So it actually brings up another thing to do differently: Pay attention to my to do list.....not just write them.
