Introduction
Becoming a Master Student is a textbook guide to help students succeed in postsecondary education and beyond that. This textbook touches upon key topics that resonates with many students. The topics include, how to improve your time management, memory, reading, note taking skills and more. With each topic, there are numerous helpful tips and advice so that students may succeed in their academics, co-curricular, personal or work life.
Introduction, Making the transition to postsecondary education, Page 12
The key concepts of this article are the differences that students experience when transitioning from secondary to postsecondary education. A major difference mentioned is adapting to a larger playing field. In postsecondary there are huge campuses with a vast amount of students from different diversities. Being in a huge crowd full of unknown people could feel impersonal, overwhelming, and intimidating. This article resonates with me because I have recently transitioned …show more content…
It’s normal to feel a bit nervous before a test however, when it’s causing you loss of sleep, appetite or headaches, you could be suffering from test anxiety. Anxiety has three elements: mental, physical and emotional. The mental element includes negative thoughts. The physical component includes physical sensations such as dyspnea. The emotional element occurs when thoughts and physical sensation combine. This resonates with me because I am someone who does suffer a bit of test anxiety, specifically the mental element. I do find my thoughts to be filled with negativity before a test or exam and it stresses me out. A good advice given by the article is to visualize success, the more you rehearse failing a test, the chances of it happening increases. Instead, you should mentally picture yourself passing with flying colours. By taking these tips, I would be able to do better on my tests and therefore succeed
Becoming a Master Student is a textbook guide to help students succeed in postsecondary education and beyond that. This textbook touches upon key topics that resonates with many students. The topics include, how to improve your time management, memory, reading, note taking skills and more. With each topic, there are numerous helpful tips and advice so that students may succeed in their academics, co-curricular, personal or work life.
Introduction, Making the transition to postsecondary education, Page 12
The key concepts of this article are the differences that students experience when transitioning from secondary to postsecondary education. A major difference mentioned is adapting to a larger playing field. In postsecondary there are huge campuses with a vast amount of students from different diversities. Being in a huge crowd full of unknown people could feel impersonal, overwhelming, and intimidating. This article resonates with me because I have recently transitioned …show more content…
It’s normal to feel a bit nervous before a test however, when it’s causing you loss of sleep, appetite or headaches, you could be suffering from test anxiety. Anxiety has three elements: mental, physical and emotional. The mental element includes negative thoughts. The physical component includes physical sensations such as dyspnea. The emotional element occurs when thoughts and physical sensation combine. This resonates with me because I am someone who does suffer a bit of test anxiety, specifically the mental element. I do find my thoughts to be filled with negativity before a test or exam and it stresses me out. A good advice given by the article is to visualize success, the more you rehearse failing a test, the chances of it happening increases. Instead, you should mentally picture yourself passing with flying colours. By taking these tips, I would be able to do better on my tests and therefore succeed