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Student Success

UAS Ketchikan is dedicated to helping you succeed! If you are struggling visit our campus resources right away. The Learning Center provides free tutoring, your advisor can assist you in developing strategies for success in the classroom, and the Computer lab can assist you with technology problems. You may also want to try the following on-line resources:

Replacement urls for bad links on UAS-Ketchikan Student Success web page:

How to Study Effectively and Efficiently

How to Get Along with your College Professor – Texas A&M University

http://www.scs.tamu.edu/?q=node/100

Improving your memory – University of Victoria:

http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/memory/

Using study groups – University of Victoria:

http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/study-skills/effective-groups.html

Establishing good study habits – Academictips.org :

http://www.academictips.org/acad/literature/establishinggoodstudyhabits.html

Writing assignments – Deakin University Australia:

http://www.deakin.edu.au/current-students/study-support/study-skills/handouts/assignment-writing.php

Avoiding burnout – Drake University:

http://www.drake.edu/acadassist/tips/avoidingburnout.php

Reading College Material

Reading skills – Dartmouth University

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/reading.html

Seven strategies for reading difficult material – University of Wisconsin

http://www.studygs.net/texred1.htm

Reading and highlighting written text – University of Sussex

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/s3/?id=84

Tips for increasing your reading speed – University of Victoria

http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/reading-skills/speed.html

Reading comprehension strategy and SQ3R, a reading/studying system– Saint Louis University

http://www.slu.edu/x32711.xml

Avoiding Procrastination

7 Day procrastination plan – University of California, Berkeley

http://slc.berkeley.edu/studystrategies/calren/procrastination.html

 Overcoming procrastination –University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?page_id=111

Techniques to manage procrastination – University of California, Berkeley

http://slc.berkeley.edu/studystrategies/calren/procrastechniques.html

Managing Time

University time management – Stanford University

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Student/studyskills/time_manage.pdf

Suggestions for planning a study schedule – Cornell University

http://lsc.cornell.edu/Sidebars/Study_Skills_Resources/SKResources.html

Time scheduling suggestions – Virginia Tech.

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/htimesug.html

Time Scheduling – Virginia Tech

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/htimesch.html

Math Skills and Anxiety

Math study skills – Texas A&M University

http://scs.tamu.edu/?q=node/92

Developing math confidence – University of Florida

http://www.counseling.ufl.edu/cwc/developing-math-confidence.aspx

Algebra resources

http://www.veritasprep.com/sat-prep-algebra-resources-galore/

Giving Speeches

Public speaking anxiety – University of Wisconsin-Stout

http://www.uwstout.edu/counsel/speechanxiety.cfm

Taking Notes

Note taking skills – York University

http://www.yorku.ca/cds/lss/skillbuilding/notetaking.html

System for effective note taking – University of Reading

http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/studyadvice/Studyresources/Reading/sta-effective.aspx

Effective note taking – University of California, Berkeley

http://slc.berkeley.edu/studystrategies/calren/notetaking1.html

Taking Tests

Preparing for tests and exams – York University

http://www.yorku.ca/cds/lss/skillbuilding/exams.html

can’t find anything to replace “Important things to remember before, during and after exams”

Perhaps replace with the following: “How to prepare for essay exams”

How to prepare for essay exams – Center for Teaching Excellence

http://www.uwec.edu/geography/ivogeler/essay.htm

Test taking, general tips – Penn State

http://dus.psu.edu/academicsuccess/studyskills.html#testtaking

The multiple choice exam – University of Victoria

http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/exams/multiple-choice.html

Online Learning

Is distance education for you? – Angelo State University

https://www.angelo.edu/online-education/is_distance_education_right_for_me.php

Is online learning right for you? – Minnesota State

http://www.mnscu.edu/online/rightforyou.html

Dictionaries

English – Cambridge University Press

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/