{"id":1721,"date":"2016-09-09T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-collegesuccess\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1721"},"modified":"2016-09-26T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:08:22","slug":"why-it-matters-study-skills","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/chapter\/why-it-matters-study-skills\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Study Skills","rendered":"Why It Matters: Study Skills"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"alignright wp-image-2277\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/605\/2016\/09\/26230637\/book-845280_640.jpg\" alt=\"a textbook. nearly all of the text is highlighted in multiple colors\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Throughout your college career, you'll be responsible for completing a lot of different types of \"assessments\": pre-quizzes, essays, group projects, tests, exams, etc. Teachers assign these in order to\u00a0mark your learning. In order to\u00a0prepare for these assessments, it's important that you study\u2014and study effectively.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Marcel is just starting his freshman year of college. He knows he has to study in order to get good grades, but he finds himself pushing off his homework until the last minute. Marcel rarely completes his reading assignments\u2014even when he doesn't understand the material discussed in class. As the semester goes on, he finds himself doing multi-hour cram session right before each\u00a0test starts, hoping he'll retain the material at least as long as it takes to complete the test.<\/p>\r\nCan you identify the problems in Marcel's study habits? 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In order to\u00a0prepare for these assessments, it&#8217;s important that you study\u2014and study effectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Marcel is just starting his freshman year of college. He knows he has to study in order to get good grades, but he finds himself pushing off his homework until the last minute. Marcel rarely completes his reading assignments\u2014even when he doesn&#8217;t understand the material discussed in class. As the semester goes on, he finds himself doing multi-hour cram session right before each\u00a0test starts, hoping he&#8217;ll retain the material at least as long as it takes to complete the test.<\/p>\n<p>Can you identify the problems in Marcel&#8217;s study habits? More importantly, can you identify any\u00a0more effective strategies he might implement?<\/p>\n<p>In this section, we&#8217;ll learn how to effectively prepare for different assignments as they come, as well as how to\u00a0use your results to\u00a0shape your later studies.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1721\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Why It Matters: Study Skills and Classroom Success. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Textbook College Learning. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: kimheimbuch0. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/book-textbook-college-learning-845280\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/book-textbook-college-learning-845280\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":19,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Why It Matters: Study Skills and Classroom Success\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Textbook College Learning\",\"author\":\"kimheimbuch0\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/book-textbook-college-learning-845280\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"4a0a8e8d-2e73-48c9-b1dc-ed5823f5175f","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1721","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":133,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1721\/revisions\/2278"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/133"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1721\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}