Everything comes down to this. You've gone through the lessons, you've studied with f riends and a tutor, you've done the practice exams, but everything boils down to this - the Exam. Your GPA so heavily relies on good exam grades, so you've done everything you can to prepare. Unfortunately, you're just "not a good test taker." If you know the material well, all you really may need to become a "good test taker" are good test taking skills and a way to ease your mind durin

Are you that guy panic-studying in your seat five minutes before the exam is passed out? Are you the student who bounces around until you find the right exam location and shows up SWEATING with no time to spare? Or worse, are you the kid who shows up full-sprint ten minutes after the exam started? It'll happen to the best of us - myself included (not disclosing which scenario...). If you can't relate to any of those circumstances and show up confident and fresh, good for

Studying versus Learning... For some of you, it may be a surprise that these are actually very different. It may be tempting to skate through homework problems without fully understanding what you're doing or why. This method may seem like the fastest way to get homework out of the way (and possibly with very high grades). However, when it comes time to study, it's always much more effective to be refreshing on material you've learned and understood in the past, as opposed

You're about a month in and starting to realize whether or not your classes come easily to you. For some of you, there's now an air of confidence that surrounds you as you conquer the material in each of your classes. For others of us, it's around this time that we realize we may need some help or a redirection of our efforts. It's when we realize looking at a math or physics problem and mumbling to ourselves “oh, yeah, that makes sense…” may not be as effective as a study