When I examined my completed ePortfolio, I saw a significant amount of growth and changes in my study habits. First of all, I noticed that my time management skills have become much improved from the beginning of the semester. For example, I used to just try to remember my daily and weekly schedules in my brain before I knew of a good way to make a schedule, and it caused me to constantly forget plans and homework or be late to them. Now that I make weekly schedules on my laptop, I do not forget things as much, and my brain no longer has to work itself so hard to remember my schedule and everything I am learning in school at the same time. Secondly, I also saw a positive change in my annotations and note-taking skills. At the beginning of this
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My main three goals as of now are to graduate high school with a 4.0 GPA, to complete all of my homework accurately and on time, and to get an A on all of my tests and quizzes. Since these are not immediate goals, I cannot make a super specific plan to achieve them, but I can make generalized steps to get closer to achieving them. For my first goal of graduating high school with a 4.0 GPA, I will not be able to achieve it for approximately three years unless I graduate early. In the mean time, I can basically use my other two goals to get closer to this goal. I just need to focus on getting As on tests, quizzes, projects, essays, papers, homework, and everyday classwork. I will need to use my time management skills and my note-taking skills especially so that I feel prepared for everything that has to do with school. I know there will be days that I just do not feel well, and I might not get all As on those days, but that is fine as long as I make up for it on different days. As for my second goal of completing all of my homework accurately and on time, I will make sure to use a weekly schedule every week in order to organize my days to have more than enough time to do homework, projects, and essays for all of my classes. My time management and goal-setting skills will come in handy for this so that I can make my …show more content…
Everything learned in this class is important, but some of it will seem more helpful than other parts of it for many reasons. It might be because certain study strategies are hard, some take up to much time, some do not seem to help much, or just because certain ones are annoying to some people. It takes awhile of trying a new study strategy to know if it actually works for you, so do not give up the first time you try it for any reason. After you have tried a study strategy at least three times, and you can clearly tell that it is still not helping much, then you can quit using it and try a different one that might suit your learning style and preferences better. The four study strategies that I found to be the most important and helpful to me academically were making a weekly schedule for time management, learning more about the SQ4R reading system for better annotations, learning all the different choices I have for note-taking and which one works best for me (two-column), and learning the SAVE CRIB FOTO acronym and what it means for better studying that is more personalized than just reading notes. These were the most important and helpful study strategies for me because they are also the ones that I lacked or struggled with at the beginning of this semester. I used to have little to no time management skills and would
My main three goals as of now are to graduate high school with a 4.0 GPA, to complete all of my homework accurately and on time, and to get an A on all of my tests and quizzes. Since these are not immediate goals, I cannot make a super specific plan to achieve them, but I can make generalized steps to get closer to achieving them. For my first goal of graduating high school with a 4.0 GPA, I will not be able to achieve it for approximately three years unless I graduate early. In the mean time, I can basically use my other two goals to get closer to this goal. I just need to focus on getting As on tests, quizzes, projects, essays, papers, homework, and everyday classwork. I will need to use my time management skills and my note-taking skills especially so that I feel prepared for everything that has to do with school. I know there will be days that I just do not feel well, and I might not get all As on those days, but that is fine as long as I make up for it on different days. As for my second goal of completing all of my homework accurately and on time, I will make sure to use a weekly schedule every week in order to organize my days to have more than enough time to do homework, projects, and essays for all of my classes. My time management and goal-setting skills will come in handy for this so that I can make my …show more content…
Everything learned in this class is important, but some of it will seem more helpful than other parts of it for many reasons. It might be because certain study strategies are hard, some take up to much time, some do not seem to help much, or just because certain ones are annoying to some people. It takes awhile of trying a new study strategy to know if it actually works for you, so do not give up the first time you try it for any reason. After you have tried a study strategy at least three times, and you can clearly tell that it is still not helping much, then you can quit using it and try a different one that might suit your learning style and preferences better. The four study strategies that I found to be the most important and helpful to me academically were making a weekly schedule for time management, learning more about the SQ4R reading system for better annotations, learning all the different choices I have for note-taking and which one works best for me (two-column), and learning the SAVE CRIB FOTO acronym and what it means for better studying that is more personalized than just reading notes. These were the most important and helpful study strategies for me because they are also the ones that I lacked or struggled with at the beginning of this semester. I used to have little to no time management skills and would