Academic Support Online

Welcome to our online Academic Support Center. This information has been designed to help you achieve success at North Central College. Each link below gives you the basics on how to study better, use your time more effectively or succeed in taking exams. If you have questions or would like to know more about a particular subject, please contact the Academic Support Center at 630-637-5266.

Handouts:

How to Succeed in Classes
Calculating Your GPA
Improving Your Study Skills
Learning Strategies
Improving Your Time Management
Test-taking Skills
Balancing Your Priorities

How to succeed in your classes

• Before Your First Day of Class
• Adding or Dropping Courses
• Going to Class
• Participation in Class
• Studying for Classes
• "Keeping up with Classes" To Do List

Calculating Your GPA

• How to Calculate your GPA

Improving Your Study Skills

• Develop a Cycle of Study Habits
• Memory Aids
• Taking Notes

Learning Strategies

• Breaking Down Writing Assignments
• Learning a Foreign Language

Improving Your Time Management

• Organization of a Schedule
• Time Management

Test-taking Skills

• Studying for Tests
• Quizzing Yourself before a Test
• Preparing for Finals
• How to Prepare your Body for a Test
• Test Anxiety

Balancing Your Priorities

• Staying Healthy in College

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