Title: Success Skills
Course: Question Banks

Q: Which is the most useful definition of success for setting academic and career goals?
- The most useful definition of success is the same for everyone because success means money.
- The most useful definition of success is determined by society’s objective standards.
- The most useful definition of success varies from person to person.
A: The most useful definition of success varies from person to person.

Q: Why do students typically struggle in college?
- A lack of natural intellect or smarts
- An inability to do the coursework - especially with math courses
- Poor time management, disorganization, and lack of quality study time
A: Poor time management, disorganization, and lack of quality study time

Q: The seven strategies for success are

- Learn how to take effective notes in class.
- Review the text and your reading notes prior to class.
- Participate in class discussion and maybe even join a study group.
- Go to office hours and ask your instructor questions.
- Give yourself enough time to research, write, and edit your essays in manageable stages.
- Spend sufficient time studying.
- And...
- Cut back on your social life as much as possible.
- Give up your job.
- Take advantage of online or on-campus academic support resources.
A: Take advantage of online or on-campus academic support resources.

Q: Tutoring is a good addition to your study group because
- it is fairly expensive and money makes education work.
- it shows the instructor how hard you are working.
- tutors have usually taken the same class your are enrolled in and because it is generally free for college students.
A: tutors have usually taken the same class your are enrolled in and because it is generally free for college students.

Q: According to most educational experts, students should study __ outside of class for every hour in class.
- 4 hours
- 1 hour
- 2 hours
A: 2 hours

Q: How can students use college resources to tap personal interests, develop a portfolio of experience, have fun, grow social connections, expand their awareness of diversity, and grow self-esteem?
- Find a part time job in a local business
- Get an apartment near campus where the parties are
- Get actively involved in campus activities
A: Get actively involved in campus activities

Q: If you were wanting to get help with your classes, what campus academic resources might you look for?
- Sport teams, Spiritual Life, and Food Services
- Campus Health Centers, Campus Counseling, and Career Services
- Advising, Tutoring and Writing Centers, and Library Reference Desks
A: Advising, Tutoring and Writing Centers, and Library Reference Desks

Q: Your quarter is starting to get a little rough; you are stressing out about your career options now that you have finished your basic classes. What personal resources would you look for on campus?
- Advising, Tutoring and Writing Centers, and Library Reference Desks
- Sport teams, Spiritual Life, and Food Services
- Campus Health Centers, Campus Counseling, and Career Services
A: Campus Health Centers, Campus Counseling, and Career Services

Q: ________ is more demanding of our critical thinking than everyday life.
- A romantic relationship
- Banking
- An academic setting
A: An academic setting

Q: Clear, reasonable, reflective thinking is what we call
- critique
- conscientious thinking
- critical thinking
A: critical thinking

Q: What do critical thinkers do?
- Criticize and tear down peers and relatives
- Provide needed advice about the popular media
- Explore and probe new areas and seek knowledge, clarification, and new solutions
A: Explore and probe new areas and seek knowledge, clarification, and new solutions

Q: Lawrence Bland, in his video, says that it is better to improve your critical thinking than to ________ because the first one allows you to solve multiple problems.
- study the same material in the same way every day
- think critically about memorization
- memorize a solution to a problem
A: memorize a solution to a problem

Q: Besides asking pertinent questions, evaluating statements and arguments, and distinguishing between fact and opinion, what do critical thinkers do?
- Memorize the answers to key problems, practice skills over and over, and avoid asking for help
- Keep a sleep journal, eat fruits and vegetables, and call their parents or guardians on a regular basis
- Examine their own beliefs, practice humility, and admit when they need more information or don’t know something
A: Examine their own beliefs, practice humility, and admit when they need more information or don’t know something

Q: Logike evolved into our word “logic.” It originally meant
- victory through critical thinking.
- constructing arguments, like stacking logs.
- the science or art of reasoning.
A: the science or art of reasoning.

Q: “How do I know?” and “What else? What if?” are examples of
- questions asked only during times of crisis.
- questions that uncertain or insecure students ask.
- questions a critical thinker asks.
A: questions a critical thinker asks.

Q: What are you doing when you identify a problem, provide as many supporting details as possible, provide examples, and organize the information logically?
- Identifying the solutions
- Selecting a solution
- Defining the problem
A: Defining the problem

Q: What are you doing when you use logic to identify your most important goals, identify implications and consequences, identify facts, then compare and contrast possible solutions?
- Defining the problem
- Selecting a solution
- Identifying the solutions
A: Identifying the solutions

Q: What are you doing when you use gathered facts and relevant evidence, support and defend solutions considered valid, and defend your solution?
- Identifying the solutions
- Defining the problem
- Selecting a solution
A: Selecting a solution

Q: In biology, your instructor is doing a short lesson on bioethics--the idea that just because something is possible does not mean that we should do that thing. You’ve been assigned to read an essay on cloning. While you are text coding the article, what do you do in addition to marking the important points and key facts?
- Underline anything that might be on the test
- Draw illustrations of the concepts in the margins
- Mark where you have questions and whether you agree or not
A: Mark where you have questions and whether you agree or not

Q: The Spectrum of Authority, which runs from “hot” to “cold,” is something you might apply to arguments over the public funding of a local sports arena. Where on the spectrum would you place an argument based on how much space the arena would take up and how much income it would generate per year?
- Hot
- Tepid
- Cold
A: Cold

Q: Who is the Early Bird student?
- The student who gets everything done eventually, thinks things over for a long time before starting, focuses well for hours, but tends to procrastinate too much.
- The student who thinks on her feet, waits until the last minute, skips an assignment or two, and often struggles to keep up.
- The student who makes checklists, starts as soon as possible, rarely has motivation issues, but sometimes rushes through assignments.
A: The student who makes checklists, starts as soon as possible, rarely has motivation issues, but sometimes rushes through assignments.

Q: Who is the Improviser?
- The student who makes checklists, starts as soon as possible, rarely has motivation issues, but sometimes rushes through assignments
- The student who gets everything done eventually, thinks things over for a long time before starting, focuses well for hours, but tends to procrastinate too much
- The student who thinks on his feet, waits until the last minute, skips an assignment or two, and often struggles to keep up
A: The student who thinks on his feet, waits until the last minute, skips an assignment or two, and often struggles to keep up

Q: Is it important to create a study schedule?
- Not necessarily. Professors usually put the due dates of major assignments on the syllabus.
- Not at all. Many students can continue their high school study practices by cramming for exams and completing assignments the night before they are due.
- Yes. Even if you have a photographic memory, it is easy to lose track of time when you have multiple classes and assignments.
A: Yes. Even if you have a photographic memory, it is easy to lose track of time when you have multiple classes and assignments.

Q: One important college success skill is learning how to interact with the course materials. How does planning your time well make this happen?
- By following the 2-3 hours outside class for every hour in class rule
- By treating school as a job--showing up on time and coming prepared
- By allowing enough time to review readings and to practice skills for better retention
A: By allowing enough time to review readings and to practice skills for better retention

Q: What should you do if your life and school requirements seem to change every week?
- Winging it has gotten you this far. You are smart enough to make it work.
- You really need to put school first. Make a schedule and stick to it. The rest of your life will work itself out.
- Make a flexible schedule and adjust it frequently. You will want to make sure you can allow for a day or two off.
A: Make a flexible schedule and adjust it frequently. You will want to make sure you can allow for a day or two off.

Q: Studying in smaller increments is better than cramming for a test because
- cramming disrespects the work that your professor and other students do; by studying in increments your brain will absorb complex course material in a more profound and lasting way because it’s how the brain functions.
- you will be less likely to pass the exam or quiz because memorization is not effective; studying in increments allows you to use higher level thinking skills.
- trying to remember crammed material is basically fruitless; by studying in increments your brain will absorb complex course material in a more profound and lasting way because it’s how the brain functions.
A: trying to remember crammed material is basically fruitless; by studying in increments your brain will absorb complex course material in a more profound and lasting way because it’s how the brain functions.

Q: A procrastinator is someone who
- sets a study plan at the beginning of the quarter and sticks to it.
- readies a paper for proofing a week before it is due.
- stays up all night to complete an assignment due the next day.
A: stays up all night to complete an assignment due the next day.

Q: Procrastination is a conflict between
- doing taxes and going running.
- avoiding things and putting things off.
- what we should do and what we want to do.
A: what we should do and what we want to do.

Q: The first step in combating procrastination is to change negative “avoidance” habits into positive “toward” habits. What changes when we visualize our positive feelings of success and the freedom that will come when the task is completed?
- Our academic results
- Our personal associations
- Our emotional associations
A: Our emotional associations

Q: Five work habits or strategies to help overcome procrastination are

- Keep your studying “bite-sized.”
- Turn off your phone, close your chat windows, and block distracting Web sites.
- Use checklists.
- Set up a reward system.
- And...
- Insist on absolute silence.
- Study in a comfortable place with positive associations, like your bed or a bean bag chair.
- Study in a place reserved for studying ONLY.
A: Study in a place reserved for studying ONLY.

Q: What is your first and most important resource for deciphering a writing assignment?
- Google
- The campus writing center
- Your instructor
A: Your instructor

Q: What do we call it when an instructor explains the purpose of the assignment and gives its parameters (such as word or page count, types of source, etc.), and provides the criteria for grading?
- A rubric
- A thesis question
- An assignment prompt
A: An assignment prompt

Q: A summary assignment
- takes a strong stance, provides authoritative evidence, quotes leading experts in the field, and uses logic to support a definitive position.
- describes the defining traits, explains the historical and rhetorical background, underscores the reasons for the author’s position, and critiques the style and mode of the source.
- reflects your understanding of a source, differentiates between major and minor ideas in the source, demonstrates your ability to identify key phrases to quote, and captures the tone/style/distinguishing features of a source.
A: reflects your understanding of a source, differentiates between major and minor ideas in the source, demonstrates your ability to identify key phrases to quote, and captures the tone/style/distinguishing features of a source.

Q: The suggested strategies of focusing on the verbs, contextualizing the assignment, free-writing, and asking for clarification work for which types of assignment?
- Only defined-topic assignments
- Only undefined-topic assignments
- Both defined-topic and undefined topic assignments
A: Both defined-topic and undefined topic assignments

Q: When you get writing anxiety, your fear might...
- motivate you to do better.
- make you fail the class.
- paralyze you from action.
A: paralyze you from action.

Q: Some helpful tips to combat writing anxiety include
- mixing it up, searching for an online essay service, remembering that you are good at other things, and walking away.
- eating only healthy meals, fasting, remembering the beneficial effects of caffeine, and working only when you feel like it.
- buddying up, breaking it down, remembering that knowledge is power, and giving it a rest.
A: buddying up, breaking it down, remembering that knowledge is power, and giving it a rest.

Q: Basic word processing skills include creating and opening documents, saving and sharing documents, basic editing in documents (such as cutting, pasting, and copying), formatting layout, and printing. What changes would you make using the Edit tab?
- Changing the document layout, printing, setting margins, inserting headers
- Inserting images, creating tables, inserting page breaks, applying the spelling check
- Cutting, pasting, copying, replacing
A: Cutting, pasting, copying, replacing

Q: Your best friend calls you in a panic because Word had an error and shut itself down temporarily. You are an old hand at computers and tell him,
- “Chill, my friend. Word has Auto Print and Auto Save. Just go to your print queue and look for your paper.”
- “No problem! Not only does Word have Auto Recover, but the Spellchecker works automatically and will fix things up when you reboot.”
- “Relax! Word has Auto Save and Auto Recover. You might lose the last ten minutes of work, at most.”
A: “Relax! Word has Auto Save and Auto Recover. You might lose the last ten minutes of work, at most.”

Q: Intermediate word processing skills include setting line and paragraph spacing, checking spelling and grammar automatically, inserting and formatting headers and footers, inserting page numbers, tracking changes and counting the words in the document. What actions could you take from the Tools tab?
- Insert a header and footer, insert a table, sort files, and add graphics
- Print multiple copies of the document, change the line spacing, add page breaks, and insert page numbers
- Check spelling and grammar, track changes, do a word count, and merge documents
A: Check spelling and grammar, track changes, do a word count, and merge documents

Q: Advanced word processing skills include making hanging indents, creating a bibliography page, sorting/alphabetizing lists, inserting pictures, and changing the default settings for documents (fonts, margins, and document standards). If you had to create a Works Cited for a paper, you would need to use which tabs and actions to create the hanging indents and to sort the list alphabetically?
- Edit > Find > Replace and Table > Convert > Text to Table
- Format > Paragraph > Special > First line and Format > Bullets and Numbering > List Styles
- Format > Paragraph > Special > Hanging Indent and Table > Sort
A: Format > Paragraph > Special > Hanging Indent and Table > Sort

Q: You have just downloaded some awesome graphics for your project on 1980s teen movies. What steps do you take in your Word program to add a photo of Robert Downey, Jr. as the centerpiece of your document’s title page?
- Click Edit > Images > Pictures > find Robert’s picture file > then click the Insert button
- Click Format > Files > Pictures > find Robert’s picture file > then click the Insert button
- Click Insert > Pictures > find Robert’s picture file > then click the Insert button
A: Click Insert > Pictures > find Robert’s picture file > then click the Insert button

Q: What are OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Google Drive?
- Cut-rate alternatives to Dropbox
- Free versions of Word that expire after 60 days
- Free alternatives to Word
A: Free alternatives to Word