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How to Get Good Grades in College
1. Pick the Right Courses. Some easy, some hard. Some for your major, some distribution courses. But mostly, at least one each semester that you have a genuine passion for.
2. Make All the Classes. Though attendance isn’t required in college, each lecture covers 3% of the courses content. Miss four or five, and you’ve missed 15% or 20% of the content. Which practically guarantees you a B (or less).
3. Take Excellent Lecture Notes. Expect to be writing most of the lecture and to produce about a page of notes for each 15 minutes of lecture. Remember, you’ll have to study these notes come exam time, and you can’t study what isn’t there.
4. Anticipate All Test Questions. Use study guides, dropped hints in the lecture, and actual sample exams to construct sample test-questions. Then take your “exam” under timed test-conditions.
5. Make Tests into “Work Sessions.” Think of tests not as the Spanish Inquisition, but as an occasion for you to showcase the material you’ve mastered. Take your time, realize that some questions are meant to be more difficult, and above all, bring something to drink (who doesn’t feel better with a beverage?).
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