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College Success Skills Vocab

Subjects : literacy, soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills






2. The ability to understand and manage yourself and relate effectively with others.






3. Time you spend maintaining yourself. Activities such as eating - sleeping - grooming - exercising - and maintaining your home.






4. RELATE. OBSERVE. REFLECT. DO. TEACH.






5. Left brain dominant people like routine - structure - and deadlines - and tend to be convergent thinkers because they are good at looking at several unrelated items and bringing order to them.






6. Prefers orderly - planned - structured learning and working environments. They like control and closure.






7. The ability to understand and manage yourself and relate effectively with others.






8. To restate in different words; to summarize; clarifying what you just heard - such as writing a summary of the key points and main ideas.






9. A center that provides general education advising and answers general questions and specific concerns about policies - procedures - graduation requirements - and deadlines.






10. Professional and peer staff who review transcripts and major contracts and perform degree checks.






11. Energized by time alone - solitude - and relfection - preferring the world of ideas and thoughts. They tend to have a small but close set of friends and are more prone to self-doubt.






12. The inner drive that moves you to action.






13. Prefers orderly - planned - structured learning and working environments. They like control and closure.






14. Likes routine - structure - and deadlines. They tend to be convergent thinkers because they are good at looking at several unrelated times and bringing them to order.






15. The person at your school who will help you to navigate academic life. Your advisor will help you clarify procedures - answer other academic concerns or questions - create a major contract - and refer you to offices on campus that can best meet your






16. Prefers to see information and read material - and learns most effectively with pictures - graphs - illustrations - diagrams - time lines - photos - pie charts - and visual designs.






17. An important self-management tool that means to think about something in a purposeful way - with the intention of making connections - exploring options - and creating new meaning.






18. A logical - rational - systematic thought process that is necessary in understanding - analyzing - and evaluating information in order to solve a problem or situation.






19. Tends to be logical - thoughtful - loyal - exact - dedicated - steady - and organized. They like following directions and work at a steady pace. The key word for them is thinking.






20. Likes to analyze problems with facts - rational logic - and analysis. They tend to be unemotional and use a systematic evaluation of data and facts for problem solving.






21. Tends to be cooperative - honest - sensitive - warm - and understanding. They relate well to others. They value harmony and are informal - approachable - and tactful. The key word for them is feeling.






22. Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills






23. Feels more comfortable with theories - abstraction - imagination - and speculations. They respond to their intuition and rely on hunches and nonverbal perceptions.






24. Likes routine - structure - and deadlines. They tend to be convergent thinkers because they are good at looking at several unrelated times and bringing them to order.






25. A rule that says 80% of your results flow out of 20% of the activities.






26. Energized by time alone - solitude - and relfection - preferring the world of ideas and thoughts. They tend to have a small but close set of friends and are more prone to self-doubt.






27. RELATE. OBSERVE. REFLECT. DO. TEACH.






28. Choosing to see a situation in a new way.






29. Prefers flexibility and spontaneity and like to allow life to unfold.






30. Prefers to rely on their hearing sense. They like tapes and music - and they prefer to listen to information - such as lectures.






31. Developed in the 1950s by Walter Pauk at Cornell. It is effective for integrating text and lecture notes.






32. Prefers to see information and read material - and learns most effectively with pictures - graphs - illustrations - diagrams - time lines - photos - pie charts - and visual designs.






33. Tends to be logical - thoughtful - loyal - exact - dedicated - steady - and organized. They like following directions and work at a steady pace. The key word for them is thinking.






34. Time devoted to school - labs - studying - work - commuting - and other activities involving the immediate and long-term goals you have committed to accomplishing.






35. Deliberately putting off tasks.






36. Learns best from their senses and feels comfortable with facts and concrete data. They like to organize information systematically.






37. A logical - rational - systematic thought process that is necessary in understanding - analyzing - and evaluating information in order to solve a problem or situation.






38. The person at your school who will help you to navigate academic life. Your advisor will help you clarify procedures - answer other academic concerns or questions - create a major contract - and refer you to offices on campus that can best meet your






39. A form of cheating - since it is presenting someone else's ideas as if they were your own.






40. To restate in different words; to summarize; clarifying what you just heard - such as writing a summary of the key points and main ideas.






41. A free-form of note taking that shows the same headings - main points - and supporting examples and associations - but uses a system of dashes and indenting.






42. Sensitive to the concerns and feelings of others - value harmony - and dislike creating conflict.






43. A term often used in business - but it simply means enriching yourself and your opportunities by building relationships with others.






44. Students from 18 to 25 years old - usually going from high school directly to college.






45. Professional and peer staff who review transcripts and major contracts and perform degree checks.






46. Deliberately putting off tasks.






47. Sensitive to the concerns and feelings of others - value harmony - and dislike creating conflict.






48. Time devoted to school - labs - studying - work - commuting - and other activities involving the immediate and long-term goals you have committed to accomplishing.






49. Positive self-talk - the internal dialogue - you carry on with yourself that counter self-defeating patterns of thought with more positive - hopeful - and realistic thoughts.






50. Developed in the 1950s by Walter Pauk at Cornell. It is effective for integrating text and lecture notes.