Tips
for Succeeding in Engineering at Concordia
Keep up
- Learn to manage
your time and avoid procrastinating
- Make tasks
fit into the time that you have to do them
- Do some work
on every course every week; learn as you go
- Do some problems
every day
- Plug gaps and
ask questions about what you don't understand every week
- If you fall
behind, jump in where the teacher is and backtrack later
Be an active learner
- Before class,
go over notes from the previous class and preview the textbook chapter
- After class,
go over your notes and fill in missing info; work the problems the teacher
did in class; get help if you don't understand
- After solving
a problem, summarize the steps in words
- After solving
a series of problems at the end of a chapter, organize problems by types and
procedures (Get the Big Picture)
Study smart: Quality
time is more important than quantity time
- Spend time
on value activities, i.e. spend more time doing problems than reading the
textbook
- Be selective;
focus on priorities in a course
- If you get
stuck on a problem, get help, then or later; don't spend too long trying to
figure it out yourself
- Prepare for
an exam by doing problems without your notes in a time limit; know when you
know by testing yourself
Use as many resources
as possible
- Get to know
other students in your class and work with them
- Get to know
your teacher and use his/her office hours
- Check out other
textbooks or self-help material from the library or book store if you are
having difficulties
- Get other students'
phone numbers or emails so you can contact them easily when you have difficulty
or miss class
- Use Student
Services, including Counselling and Development
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Remember:
Learning
is YOUR responsibility. Be active, aggressive, efficient.
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| Working with others
can save time and increase learning power. |
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