Successful Students

Successful Students  exhibit a   combination  of  successful attitudes  and  behaviors  as  well  as  intellectual  capacity .

1. Successful students are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participation in it.

Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, and you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class achieve the same degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

 2. Successful students have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires. Ask yourself these questions: What am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student.

3 Successful students ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route