SCI 195A Reflective Report

My experiences in SCI 195A this semester taught by Ingrid Peterson and Dina Schwartz have been nothing less than extraordinary. Being a first semester freshman at a top university, such as the University of Arizona, is a tremendous culture shock even coming from a nationally ranked college preparatory school as I did. Although college is full of opportunity, it entails legions of work! College certainly includes more responsibility such as time management, test taking strategy, and planning for the future. Each of these values (and more) were passed onto me this semester by Ingrid and Dina. Primarily, time management is the key to college life success in my opinion. In SCI 195A, we discuss the methods of “taking controls of your time”. It is crucial to ponder the important activities in your life, and postpone the rest. College keeps your schedule booked via class, homework, and studying, but extracurricular activities and being socially stable are important aspects as well. So, a student must make themselves a schedule, grouping what is most important to least important. We also learned this semester, that a great way to keep your schedule …show more content…
Not only does this involve ways to improve your skill and knowledge for a test, but also to improve your mindset. We learned this semester that success on a test directly derives from studying strategies. The three preeminent studying strategies we learned are elaborative interrogation, self explanation, and the testing effect. Elaborative interrogation is creating possible explanations to a fact you are trying to memorize. Self explanation is creating an explanation for how a new piece of information is linked to information you have already learned. The testing effect is of course testing yourself on the material you are trying to memorize. Ways to execute this strategy are flashcards, group studying, and creating and taking practice