Study Skills: Please include this as your homepage during this semester. This will ensure you are always on top of the necessary skills!!

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1. Study skills course
http://www.lbcc.edu/LAR/studyskills.cfm

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2. Study skills course
https://www.coursera.org/#course/learning

Another excellent site.

a) Self diagnostics

Print this check list bring this to each lesson, check each point and most importantly be honest to yourself, as the course progress, there must be clear improvement and reduction of bad habits.  The worst thing you can do to yourself is to lie to yourself.

Failure Diagnostics checklist: How to check whether you are going to fail this course

SS = Go watch Study skills videos  in businesslawvideos blogspot

M= Go watch Motivation Videos in businesslawvideos blogspot

Name of Student:	Solution	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
o                         A) Still in dreamland that the Law paper is easy when in fact is it the toughest	M
o                         B) Still in the holiday mood and your brain needs time to “warm-up”… until a couple of weeks before the exam	M
o                         C) Not coming for class or disappearing during class thinking that you can get by with the slides and textbook alone	M
o                         D) poor effort at preparing for  the tutorials, in time, and comprehensively o                           Buddies: please check their tutorials	M
o                         E) Thinking the lecture was easy to understand and not doing your readings after each lesson and summarizing the lecture into a mind map	M
o                         F) Getting distracted in class, lack of active listening skills	M/SS
o                         G) Thinking you can get by studying someone else’s Mind Map and ending up confused	M
o                         H) Not motivated to seeking help or easier ways of understanding the topic when you get stuck.	M
o                         I ) Multi-tasking with while studying or during class	SS
o                         J) Thinking that failure will happen to the guy next to you and NEVER you. o                           20-30% failed every sem… so out of every three , one of you will be back. So if we remove the repeaters, it means 40% of fresh students will fail.	M
o                         K) Expecting spoon feeding like a Secondary School Student  without additional reading of the textbooks	SS
o                         Last minute cramming and studying	SS
o                         StudyBuddy’s Name: o                         ______________________ o                         Declaration: I hereby swear to tell my buddy the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about where he is heading.	Signature