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Chapter 3
Making Connections: Four
Steps to Your Success
Using Powerful Principles of Student Success and Key
Campus Resources

Chapter 3 Learning Goal
Alert you to the most powerful strategies and
resources that you can use immediately to get
off to a fast start in college and continually to
achieve excellence throughout your college
experience.

What excites you about starting
college?
What concerns do you have about
starting college?

The Diamond of College Success:
Four Steps to Your Success

Active involvement includes the following key components:
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The amount of time you devote to the college experience—
inside and outside the classroom
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The degree of effort or energy (mental and physical) you invest
in the learning process.
First Step of College Success:
Active Involvement

Top Tips for Active Listening and Note Taking
1. Get to every class (whether or not your instructors take roll)
2. Get to every class on time
3. Get organized
4. Get in the right position—where you sit and your posture
5. Get in the right frame of mind
6. Get it down (in writing)
7. Don’t let go of your pen (or keyboard)
8. Finish strong
9. Stick around
First Step of College Success:
Active Involvement

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Which of these tips have you put into practice already?
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Which of these tips would you benefit from implementing?
First Step of College Success:
Active Involvement

Top Tips for Strengthening Textbook Reading Comprehension and
Retention
1. Get the textbooks required for your courses as soon as
possible and get your reading assignments done on time.