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Student Confessions

February 10, 2010
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Over the last few months I’ve had dozens of students join my program. For those of you that don’t know; when I sit down with a student for the first time by phone or over skype I ask that they have 3 pieces of information prepared for me.

  1. The courses they took last semester
  2. The courses they are taking this semester
  3. Their top three frustrations with University

With this information I’m usually able to match new students with a tutor that work relatively well with them. During this initial interview I really get to the core of what they are about. Many students don’t stop to realize what kind of problems they really have with university until I force them into confronting there demons by laying out exactly what their problems are. Therefore to help more students, I’m going to introduce a new series into effective study skills where I share the frustrations many of my students faced and how they conquered them.

During this series I will be concentrating on students’ individual case studies and how they are succeeding in speeding less time studying and getting higher grades

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