Tips on how to succeed in university (1 Viewer)

[LolaBell]

Hi,
going to start uni this year and would appreciate it if you guys could give me some tips on how to succeed.
Also what do you do to ensure good time management & keeping work organised and under control

 

[Shadowdude]

Motivation.


There's no tips. It's the same thing as HSC. You do your work. You revise the content. You do what is expected and told of you. You do your homework. You keep up with what's in lectures.

Hard bit is finding the motivation to find the time to do those things.

 

[4025808]

Also think about how to do well in the span of 13 weeks. It's a lot harder than HSC coz you have so much less time in uni.

 

[-may-cat-]

Plan all of your assessments in advance as soon as you get your unit guides; when semester really starts to gear up it can be so easy allocate your time poorly.

 

[forgot]

Make sure your up to date in everything, and don't put off things until later- once you receive something, plan and try finishing off things as soon as you get them. And don't skip lectures or tutorials, otherwise you will have to catch up on everything and as written above you only have 13 weeks, so time is really precious. good luck

 

[-may-cat-]

ilecture always seems like a good idea at the time, but come exam period when you're staring down the barrel of 20 hours accumulated ilecture debt, you will want to kill yourself.

 

[forgot]

ilecture always seems like a good idea at the time, but come exam period when you're staring down the barrel of 20 hours accumulated ilecture debt, you will want to kill yourself.

so true.. never fall for the temptation

 

[Shadowdude]

Attend your lectures anyway. I mean, might as well attend in person when you're supposed to rather than try and find an hour or two later on when it is less convenient.

 

[brent012]

If you are doing Engineering or some kind of Science you should get familiar with Khanacademy, PatrickJMT (for maths) and a few other youtube channels.

 

[OzKo]

Learn how to think outside of the box.

The best students will not rote learn content.

 

[RishBonjour]

One question:
- If your degree is 3 years, in your final test will you be tested on all that you learnt for three years or just that year?

 

[OzKo]

One question:
- If your degree is 3 years, in your final test will you be tested on all that you learnt for three years or just that year?

 

[Shadowdude]

One question:
- If your degree is 3 years, in your final test will you be tested on all that you learnt for three years or just that year?

what final test


there's no final test. there's just exams every semester for the subjects you do.

this guy

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Learn how to think outside of the box.

The best students will not rote learn content.

I love this advice. Independent learning/ability to think on your feet seems like the skills you need in the uni.

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Learn how to think outside of the box.

The best students will not rote learn content.

I love this advice. Independent learning/ability to think on your feet seems like the skills you need in the uni.

 

[michaeljennings]

Learn how to think outside of the box.

The best students will not rote learn content.

yea pretty much this, i studied heaps more in sem 1 compared with sem 2 but my wam for sem 2 was 8 higher than my sem 1 wam

 

[kaz1]

stay up to date and understand everything you're meant to

easier said than done

 

[Aysce]

Learn how to think outside of the box.

The best students will not rote learn content.

How do you actually develop this skill before university though? :/

 

[OzKo]

How do you actually develop this skill before university though? :/

Just don't go into university expecting to get the best marks on the basis of remembering everything.

Enter with the mindset that what you are taught will act as tools to solve problems (i.e. assessments and exams). University assessments and exams are not conducive to plain old memory dumps.

 

[halapenyo]

Anyone want to offer up some non generic advice?

the question kind of lends itself towards generic responses.