Selecting your courses Part 6

Selecting your courses

Part 6

Success in AP can also help you in other ways. AP helps you stand out in the admission process and offers the opportunity to learn from some of the most inspiring teachers in the world. Learn more about the AP program.

For more help in Choosing Courses

Use College Search to look up a specific college’s academic requirement to be sure you are on track to attend the college of your choice.

If you have concerns about your class schedule or progress in school, set up a meeting with your school counselor, teacher or adviser. There are many resources to help you with this process, and with achieving your personal, college and career goals. Without goals, you meander all sort of directions. Goals give you purpose, direction, enthusiasm, and passion for that which you really desire. Define your goals deliberately, evaluate your goals often and make changes as necessary, work hard to achieve your goals, and continue working hard until you actually do reach your goals.

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Student success tips

Student success tips

1.       Attend new student orientation at the beginning of the fall and spring semester

2.       GEN 1015, first year experience, provides excellent content and resources to be a successful student. It is likely that this class will be part of your first semester at Edison.

3.        Be sure to attend all classes, and be on time.

4.       To reduce distractions, sit near the front of the class.

5.       Keep a copy of the syllabus for each class so that you will know what is going on, what you should be doing, and how soon you need to get it done.

6.       Be a good listener, focus and concentrate on main points.

7.       Take good notes in class, and review your notes within 24 hours. Then, review your notes periodically to help you retain information, index card with key information are also helpful way to review.

8.       Study to be successful college student, study at least two hours a week for every hour you spend in class. This is a minimum.

9.       Determine an ideal study space, and plan study time when you are at your best to retain information.

10.   Maintain a student planner to keep track of important dates and projects.

11.   Apply additional time management strategies, including planning, setting goals, and prioritizing schoolwork and you additional responsibilities.

12.   Avoid marathon study periods. Instead, study for short intervals with a break in between. For example, study for 30 minutes, take a 3-minutes break, come back and review, then repeat the process.

13.   Get to know other students in your classes for added support and to study together when possible.

14.   Participate in class, and ask your instructor questions when needed. Meet with them during office hours for additional support and guidance.

15.   See your faculty advisor every semester to register for classes.

16.   Make use of the library and learning center for study help and free tutoring services.

17.   Being a full-time student is your 40-hour-per-week job, and like many full-time employees, you probably will not finish the job in 40 hours.

18.   Be sure to allow time for physical activity as well as class and study time. This will help you to focus on you studies. Locker rooms and a work-out room are available on campus.

19.   (TAA only) plan ahead! When you have more than a 30 week-day break in classes you will not be paid unemployment. Be sure to put aside money each week so you have money on the weeks you do not get paid.

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.” –Theodore Roosevelt

In every decision, is better choose the right, and no what the others expect you to do, be yourself take good decisions and always choose the right is the base for the success, because if you do what others expect you to do and those persons are not persons of right, the gonna make you do embarrassing, dumb, dangerous things that gonna put you in such big troubles or sometimes behind the bars of a jail. So take good decisions, and try to find the right decision in every situation.

Selecting your courses part 5

Selecting your courses part 5

The arts

Research indicates that students who participate in the arts often do better in school and on standardized tests. The arts help you recognize patterns, discern differences and similarities, and exercise your mind in unique ways, often outside a traditional classroom setting.

Many colleges require or recommend one or two semesters in the arts. Good choices include studio art, dance, music and drama. Many students have talents and extraordinary abilities in the arts.

Students should look within their own repertoire of talents and identify their artistic abilities and take college classes to develop their talents.

Advanced placement program (AP)

To be sure you are ready to take on college-level work, enroll in the most challenging courses you can in high school, such as honors or AP courses. Research constantly shows that students who score a 3.0 or higher on AP Exam typically experience greater academic success and college graduation rates than students who don’t take AP.

Work hard in your righteous pursuits, and you will reap the benefits of self­-fulfillment and job satisfaction. Don’t take shortcuts just to “get by,” instead, take challenging and difficult roads (courses) and reach higher mountain peaks of achievement.

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“To know what is right and do not do it is the worst cowardice.” –Confucius

If you know what is right, you have to do it no matter how harder it can be, because the wrong will always be easy but the consequences are not. The right will always give you easy and great consequences, but the wrong will only give you hard troubles. 

  

selecting your courses part 4

Social studies

You can better understand local and world events that are happening now by studying the culture and history that has shaped them. Here is a suggested course plan:

·        U.S. history (two semesters)

·        U.S. government (one semester)

·        World history or geography (one semester)

·        One additional semester in the above or other areas

Foreign languages

Solid foreign language study shows college you’re willing to stretch beyond the basics. Many colleges require at least two years of study in the same foreign language, and some prefer more.

Learning a foreign language can be a challenge but is exiting. Repetition is the key to learning a language, and having conversations with others speaking the same language is the best way to learn this new language. Repetition in a fun way will build your skills thoroughly as you seek to master new languages.

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student success statement

"have the courage to say no. have the courage to face the truth. do the right thing because it is right. these are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." -W. Clement Stone

if you have the courage to do what is wrong, why not to do what is right? most of the people (big part of them teenagers have the courage and are brave to do the wrong or dumb things that their friends tell them to do but they never are enough brave to fix their mistakes or to give an apologize to someone who really deserves it. the dumb thing will never bring you the horizon to the success they gonna bring you the horizon to die or jail. choose the right, follow your heart and you gonna have a successful end in your life!!