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College Success Skills Basics

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. What does 'to be here and now' mean
Acrostic
It gives you a feeling of success and helps warm up your brain
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions
To focus your attention

2. The 'AHA' happens because of...
Learning Resource Center
problems
Be quiet - maintain eye contact - display openness - send acknowledgments
Luck - persistence - spontaneity - step-by-step process

3. Suggestions form verbal listening are...
It gives you a feeling of success and helps warm up your brain
Choose when to speak - give feedback meaning - notice the speakers body language - listen for request and intention -allow emotions
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
Be quiet - maintain eye contact - display openness - send acknowledgments

4. The statement 'love your problems' does not mean you...
totally enjoy them
Be alert to repetition - look for introductory concluding words or transition words or phrases - highlight obvious clues
If the idea is a good tool use it if not put it on the shelf
Cornell - mind mapping - Outline form

5. Five things that are included in an 'I' message
Format your paper - take notes leaving cue column blank - condense your notes into the cue column or put keywords there - use cue column to recite
Be alert to repetition - look for introductory concluding words or transition words or phrases - highlight obvious clues
If the idea is a good tool use it if not put it on the shelf
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions

6. What are the guidelines for brainstorming
do two or more things at once
True
Focus on a single problem or issue - relax and sit quietly for a few minutes - collect your thoughts - set time limit
Acrostic

7. What does 'to be here and now' mean
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
totally enjoy them
Speeds up writing a detailed answer - less likely to leave out important facts - outline could win some points
To focus your attention

8. Grades are a measure of how well...
you take a test
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
To focus your attention
Make intentions positive - observable - small and achievable - set timelines that include rewards

9. Key words are paired with numbers
To focus your attention
Peg system
It gives you a feeling of success and helps warm up your brain
Learning Resource Center

10. When using the Cornell method of note taking you do what?
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions
The ' BE HERE NOW' technique
Format your paper - take notes leaving cue column blank - condense your notes into the cue column or put keywords there - use cue column to recite
Study group - join a club - go to a lab

11. The concept 'ideas are good tools' suggests
If the idea is a good tool use it if not put it on the shelf
Acronym
True
Peg system

12. Suggestions form verbal listening are...
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
Luck - persistence - spontaneity - step-by-step process
long-term memory
Choose when to speak - give feedback meaning - notice the speakers body language - listen for request and intention -allow emotions

13. The statement 'love your problems' does not mean you...
you take a test
Make intentions positive - observable - small and achievable - set timelines that include rewards
totally enjoy them
Make intentions positive - observable - small and achievable - set timelines that include rewards

14. When using the Cornell method of note taking you do what?
Format your paper - take notes leaving cue column blank - condense your notes into the cue column or put keywords there - use cue column to recite
Be alert to repetition - look for introductory concluding words or transition words or phrases - highlight obvious clues
Learning Resource Center
Acrostic

15. Sentences that help you remember a series of letters that stand for something - ( Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally) order of math operations
Be quiet - maintain eye contact - display openness - send acknowledgments
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions
Acrostic

16. Information which is stored in ________________ stays there the rest of your life
Find out what the question is asking - make an outline
long-term memory
Speeds up writing a detailed answer - less likely to leave out important facts - outline could win some points
Preview Outline question - Read. Underline. Answer - Recite review Review again

17. One of the most important resources on a college campus is the...
Learning Resource Center
Be alert to repetition - look for introductory concluding words or transition words or phrases - highlight obvious clues
absolute qualifiers
Before you start reading - preview the entire assignment - keep it short - read headings

18. During a lecture it is good to sit front and center and pretend you are having a personal conversation with the situation
It gives you a feeling of success and helps warm up your brain
True
The ' BE HERE NOW' technique
Format your paper - take notes leaving cue column blank - condense your notes into the cue column or put keywords there - use cue column to recite

19. 3 ways to Network with others on campus
you take a test
Study group - join a club - go to a lab
Choose when to speak - give feedback meaning - notice the speakers body language - listen for request and intention -allow emotions
long-term memory

20. What are the guidelines for brainstorming
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
Focus on a single problem or issue - relax and sit quietly for a few minutes - collect your thoughts - set time limit
absolute qualifiers
do two or more things at once

21. Be the _____ you you want to be
change
Choose when to speak - give feedback meaning - notice the speakers body language - listen for request and intention -allow emotions
Cornell - mind mapping - Outline form
Acrostic

22. You ______ need to do all nine steps of the technique to get the most out of any reading assignments
do not
totally enjoy them
It gives you a feeling of success and helps warm up your brain
Focus on a single problem or issue - relax and sit quietly for a few minutes - collect your thoughts - set time limit

23. Key words are paired with numbers
Find out what the question is asking - make an outline
change
Study group - join a club - go to a lab
Peg system

24. Some reading assignments require only a...
The ' BE HERE NOW' technique
of synergy: it is the idea that the whole is more valuable than the sum of it's parts
problems
10 second outline

25. Sometimes choosing to ________________ can be effective
Learning Resource Center
you take a test
do two or more things at once
Make intentions positive - observable - small and achievable - set timelines that include rewards

26. 9 steps for muscle reading
Cornell - mind mapping - Outline form
long-term memory
Preview Outline question - Read. Underline. Answer - Recite review Review again
problems

27. Diversity is valuable because...

28. 3 reasons for making an outline for an essay question
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions
do two or more things at once
Acrostic
Speeds up writing a detailed answer - less likely to leave out important facts - outline could win some points

29. Sometimes choosing to ________________ can be effective
do two or more things at once
Peg system
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions
Recall

30. What are three clues that instructors give to show important points during class
Peg system
Study group - join a club - go to a lab
Format your paper - take notes leaving cue column blank - condense your notes into the cue column or put keywords there - use cue column to recite
Be alert to repetition - look for introductory concluding words or transition words or phrases - highlight obvious clues

31. Diversity is valuable because...

32. Describe three forms of note taking
Cornell - mind mapping - Outline form
Before you start reading - preview the entire assignment - keep it short - read headings
of synergy: it is the idea that the whole is more valuable than the sum of it's parts
10 second outline

33. Mnemonic devices increase your ability to...
Luck - persistence - spontaneity - step-by-step process
do not
True
Recall

34. _______ should be viewed as opportunities to participate in life
problems
Preview Outline question - Read. Underline. Answer - Recite review Review again
Acrostic
Focus on a single problem or issue - relax and sit quietly for a few minutes - collect your thoughts - set time limit

35. When taking a test should you answer the shortest easiest questions first? Why?
It gives you a feeling of success and helps warm up your brain
True
Cornell - mind mapping - Outline form
If the idea is a good tool use it if not put it on the shelf

36. The techniques to set the stage for note taking are...
Before you start reading - preview the entire assignment - keep it short - read headings
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
totally enjoy them
of synergy: it is the idea that the whole is more valuable than the sum of it's parts

37. 3 reasons for making an outline for an essay question
Speeds up writing a detailed answer - less likely to leave out important facts - outline could win some points
Format your paper - take notes leaving cue column blank - condense your notes into the cue column or put keywords there - use cue column to recite
Recall
do two or more things at once

38. 3 ways to Network with others on campus
Learning Resource Center
of synergy: it is the idea that the whole is more valuable than the sum of it's parts
problems
Study group - join a club - go to a lab

39. The purpose of ___________ only to make the best of the situation
Make intentions positive - observable - small and achievable - set timelines that include rewards
absolute qualifiers
Focus on a single problem or issue - relax and sit quietly for a few minutes - collect your thoughts - set time limit
cramming

40. What are the techniques for answering essay questions
Find out what the question is asking - make an outline
Preview Outline question - Read. Underline. Answer - Recite review Review again
long-term memory
change

41. What are the techniques for answering essay questions
Study group - join a club - go to a lab
Find out what the question is asking - make an outline
Make intentions positive - observable - small and achievable - set timelines that include rewards
Recall

42. The purpose of ___________ only to make the best of the situation
long-term memory
If the idea is a good tool use it if not put it on the shelf
problems
cramming

43. The techniques to set the stage for note taking are...
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
Words such as all - always - never - none
Luck - persistence - spontaneity - step-by-step process
Words such as all - always - never - none

44. Word created from initial letters from a series of words (e.g. NASA)
Before you start reading - preview the entire assignment - keep it short - read headings
totally enjoy them
Choose when to speak - give feedback meaning - notice the speakers body language - listen for request and intention -allow emotions
Acronym

45. If you are focusing your attention and your mind wanders - you can notice your thoughts have wandered and gently bring them back

46. What is an absolute qualifier?
Luck - persistence - spontaneity - step-by-step process
Complete outside assignments - - bring the right materials - sit front and center - conduct a short pre class review - clarify your intentions
Be quiet - maintain eye contact - display openness - send acknowledgments
Words such as all - always - never - none

47. Be the _____ you you want to be
totally enjoy them
Be alert to repetition - look for introductory concluding words or transition words or phrases - highlight obvious clues
Make intentions positive - observable - small and achievable - set timelines that include rewards
change

48. Sentences that help you remember a series of letters that stand for something - ( Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally) order of math operations
long-term memory
Be quiet - maintain eye contact - display openness - send acknowledgments
Study group - join a club - go to a lab
Acrostic

49. You ______ need to do all nine steps of the technique to get the most out of any reading assignments
Focus on a single problem or issue - relax and sit quietly for a few minutes - collect your thoughts - set time limit
Acronym
Observations - feelings - wants - thoughts - intentions
do not

50. Word created from initial letters from a series of words (e.g. NASA)
you take a test
Acronym
cramming
Recall