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Top 10 Tips to Milk the Most Out of Your College Lectures

by Greg Narayan

1)  Don’t try to take down everything in your notes, you’ll get bored quickly.

2)  Keep a pen and notebook handy, and jot down definitions or equations you find confusing or particularly hard to memorize. 

3)  Bring a note-taking gadget of your choice to class.

4)  Sit close to the front of the classroom. It can be tempting to sit far back, but we all know these kids get the lower grades come test time. 

5)  Force yourself to ask a pointed question every lecture. This not only makes you stay in tune with the discussion, but will put your face and voice in the professors mind. They’re in charge of your grades.

6)  Always listen for keywords like upcoming quiz, exam, or paper. These come at the end of class, and should be written down.

7)  Make 1-2 friends for the sake of studying with; don’t roll into class with your entire sports team and occupy the same row. The kid who wants to listen least will distract everyone else.

8) Take time after class to contact your professor with questions, they often love to help.

9)  Learn the best study methods for YOU, and practice them often.

10)  Turn your phone off, come on, its a short period of the day and you are paying to be there.

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Facebook’s Impact on Student Grades

Mr. Junco found a direct relationship between site use and out-of-class sociability: the more time a student spent on Facebook, the more likely that student was to be involved with extracurricular activities.

Meanwhile — contradicting the zero-sum logic of some who might believe that a minute spent social networking is a minute spent not attending to schoolwork — the study found no substantive link between time spent on Facebook and time spent studying.

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gjmueller: No, Facebook Is Not Ruining Your Grades The study, published last week in Computers in Human Behavior, analyzes 1,839 college students’ survey data about Facebook use and actual grades (as opposed to self-reported grades). It also takes into account students’ high-school GPAs. On average, students say they spend 106 minutes on Facebook per day. Each increase of 93 minutes beyond 106 minutes correlates with a GPA decrease of .12 grade points — statistically significant, but not dramatic when applied to a real-world situation. photo via flickr:CC|English106

gjmueller:

No, Facebook Is Not Ruining Your Grades

The study, published last week in Computers in Human Behavior, analyzes 1,839 college students’ survey data about Facebook use and actual grades (as opposed to self-reported grades). It also takes into account students’ high-school GPAs.

On average, students say they spend 106 minutes on Facebook per day. Each increase of 93 minutes beyond 106 minutes correlates with a GPA decrease of .12 grade points — statistically significant, but not dramatic when applied to a real-world situation.

photo via flickr:CC|English106

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Reblogged from The Champion Project

How Much do College Grades Matter?

 

Job Opportunities- A study performed by  the National Association of Colleges and Employer showed that 70 percent of hiring managers do screen applicants based on their GPA but that most didn’t care as long as the GPA was above a 3.0.

University Opportunities- If you are planning to move on to grad school then you really should keep your grades in check. Universities base acceptance heavily on previous GPA’s. 

Financial Aid- If you are paying for college with the help of scholarships or federally granted funds you should check the standards for grades. You may have to maintain a certain GPA in order to keep receiving funds. 

As George W. Bush said to Yale graduates in 2011, “To all the C-students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.”

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