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Effective study habits

You can prepare yourself to succeed in your studies. Try to develop and appreciate the following habits:

Take responsibility for yourself

Responsibility is recognition that to succeed you can make decisions about your priorities, time and resources.

Center yourself around your values and principles

Don't let friends and acquaintances dictate what you consider important.

Put first things first

Follow up on the priorities you have set for yourself, and don't let others, or other interests, distract you from your goals.

Consider yourself in a win-win situation

You win by doing your best and contributing your best to a class, whether for yourself, your fellow students, and even for your teachers and instructors. If you are content with your performance, a grade becomes an external check on your performance, which may not coincide with your internally arrived at benefits.

First understand others, then attempt to be understood

When you have an issue with an instructor, for example a questionable grade, an assignment deadline extension, put yourself in the instructor's place. Now ask yourself how you can best make your argument given his/her situation.

Look for better solutions to problems

For example, if you don't understand the course material, don't just re-read the material. Try something else! Consult with the teacher, a tutor, a classmate or a study group.

Look to continually challenge yourself

If your usual effort is such and such, see if you can go just one step further.

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