TROY’S GUIDE TO GETTING GOOD GRADES

ASSIGNMENTS

Read the assigned reading, do the assigned writing or projects! Don’t wait until the last minute and skim through the reading. Take time to carefully read through the assigned reading a few night before class and then re-skim through the assigned reading a few hours before class.

ATTEND/ATTENTION

Go to Class! When you’re in class, be there both physically and mentally. Listen and pay attention to what the professor is saying. Pay attention to the questions that the other students are asking and the answers to those questions. The professor is giving you the wisdom of the universe on a silver platter – take it!

ASK THREE RELEVANT QUESTIONS EACH CLASS

When you are doing the reading, write down three relevant questions that relate to what you have read. Preferably questions that are not actually answered by the reading itself. At appropriate times during the course of the evening’s lecture, ask your three questions.

ASSIMILATE

Make sure you are incorporating and absorbing the material into your consciousness. Try one or more of the following:

• Check your understanding of the material by having a brief discussion with classmates about it in the next day or two following the lecture.


• Send a follow-up email asking your professor to verify an aspect of your understanding of the material.


• Try to explain the concept to some friends who are not in the class.


• Write a paragraph summary of the concept.

APPRECIATE

Admire, value, and be thankful for the knowledge you are gaining. Surround yourself with positive energy, enthusiasm, great expectations, hopefulness, and optimism by being positive, enthusiastic, hopeful, optimistic, and full of great expectations. As John & Paul once commented, "in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make"