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Academic Support

Academic Commitment:

The absolute top priority of the Virginia Tech Department of Athletics is that all student-athletes obtain a well-rounded education and earn a meaningful degree.

It is our intention to supply student-athletes with academic enrichment programs which allow them to maximize their academic potential.

Those programs include:
  • counseling
  • advising
  • academic progress monitoring
  • study hall, tutoring
  • computer facilities
  • mentoring

We desire to have student-athletes who are constantly competing for state, conference, regional and national academic awards and scholarships.
Study Tips:
  1. Go to all classes ? Not all knowledge is written in books. Don't trust your buddy with your grade. Take the initiative to determine your own success in your classes. Besides, it is hard to ask for help from someone who doesn't see you very often, and who knows when you will need help?
  2. Take careful notes.
  3. Never write down everything the professor says ? Listen for important things. Ordinarily, everything written on the chalkboard is important, and certainly when you are told something is important, write it down.
  4. Don't worry about spelling and other errors in your notes ? The aim is speed and information. After class is over, rewrite your notes. You will be able to insert words you left out, fix hard to read spots, and make it all as clear as possible. If you wait, a great deal of it may have gotten foggy.
  5. Continually rereading notes is a waste of time ? Rework your notes ? Paraphrase, reorganize, abbreviate, summarize, and diagram your notes.
  6. Work to understand rather than memorize ? Spend 80% of your study time trying to understand your subjects.
  7. Use SQ3R ? Survey, question, read, recite, review.
  8. Take a short break every hour.
  9. Work on every single subject every day.
  10. Switch subjects often.
  11. Have a number of different places to study.
  12. Study at different times.
  13. If you have to memorize something, use several short study periods rather than one long study periods.
  14. Think of school as a full-time job.
  15. Plan on averaging one and half to three hours of preparation for each hour of class.
  16. Develop a system for organizing all your notes and papers.
  17. Learn to study with a friend and take advantage of the tutoring sessions in the Student-Athlete Support Service Office.
  18. Get enough sleep.
  19. See your counselor often.
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Study Aids:
  1. Use a variety of study aids to learn material from your text and class notes. A difference between understanding while you're reading and learning so you know the information and are prepared for exams exists. The following strategies have been successful for other students:
  2. Questioning Techniques ? Learn how to generate questions about the material and think about what might be on the test.
  3. Graphic Organizers ? Examine your table of contents to help you organize the material.
  4. Semantic Mapping ? Any graphic display of information you are trying to learn will aid your learning.
  5. Mnemonic Devices ? Initials that form a word or nonsense word can sometimes be helpful when memorizing lists.
  6. Writing Out Answers ? Write answers to questions from your study guide, outline chapters, make lists of terms from text and class notes, when you rephrase in your own words and writing it down will help you remember.
  7. Charts ? Organize information in the form of a chart.
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Collaborative Learning
  1. Study with a buddy
  2. Quiz each other
  3. Talk to the professor or TA to ensure that you know the information
  4. Request tutorial assistance
  5. Role play the key concepts and/or characters in the material to be covered
  6. Jog while you memorize ? physical activity may aid in retention and concentration
  7. Try graphic studying techniques such as using 3X5 cards
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Reading

SQ4R Method Survey
  • Briefly survey the chapter
  • Read all heading
  • Read any summaries

Question
  • Ask yourself questions about the material you are reading
  • Make up practice test questions

Read
  • Read carefully with concentration and retention
  • Read actively, without getting distracted

Write
  • Write down your answers to your questions
  • Restructure information so that it makes the most sense

Recite
  • Recite aloud what you have read
  • Recall main ideas and headings
  • Answer your questions noting if your responses are accurate
  • Rehearse the material until you have fully retained it

Review
  • Review after you just read the material
  • Summarize majors points from the text
  • Answer your questions

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PQ4R Method

Preview
  • Survey the chapter to determine general topics

Questions
  • Make up questions about each section, using topic headings as guides

Read
  • Read carefully attempting to answer your own questions

Reflect
  • Try to comprehend the text as you are reading
  • Use examples

Recite
  • Recall the information from the previous section
  • Reread information that you may have forgotten

Review
  • Recall main points
  • Again try to answer your constructed questions

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Test Taking Tips:
  1. Survey the entire test.
  2. Read the directions carefully, making sure you understand exactly what is expected.
  3. Determine the point value for each question.
  4. Read each question carefully, underlining key words.
  5. Do not read into questions what is not there.
  6. Pass over the difficult or debatable questions on your first reading and then come back after completing those of which you were sure.
  7. Use information from other questions.
  8. If you know you made an error, change your first answer. If it is just a guess, keep your first impression.
  9. Ask the instructor for clarification if you have a specific question.
  10. Spot check every fifth question for accuracy if you are using a computer-scored answer sheet.
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True-False Questions:
  1. Read the questions carefully. Don't read more into a statement than is there. Respond to the whole statement.
  2. Assume that the question is true unless you can determine that it is false.
  3. For a statement to be true, all parts of it must be true. If a question is partially false, then the whole statement is considered false.
  4. In a long question it often helps to mark each section as to whether it is true or false.
  5. Write near the question what makes the answer false so that you can verify your reasoning .
  6. Read very carefully questions that contain an absolute (all, every, none, never, always, only, exactly) as these are often false.
  7. Be certain to understand how a negative (not, least, unimportant) effects the question.
  8. Watch out for double negatives. Read the question as if there were no negatives in it at all.
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Multiple Choice Questions:
  1. Multiple choice questions are usually either incomplete statements followed by possible answers.
  2. Read the options very carefully and do not just choose the first answer that seems correct.
  3. Cross out the distractors and select as the correct answer the option that is not a distracter. Mark each choice as to whether it answers the question or does not answer it correctly.
  4. Use common sense, sound reasoning, experiences you have had, information you know, and your knowledge of how the professor is likely to interpret the question to select the best answer.
  5. Answers with absolutes in them are often wrong and thus distracters.
  6. Watch out for the question with a negative in it which one is not or the least important.
  7. Unfamiliar looking terms or phrases are seldom the correct answers to test questions.
  8. The only time you should select the unfamiliar looking term or phrase as the correct answer is when you are certain that all the other options are distracters.
  9. Options that contain jokes and insults are often distracters.
  10. When one of the options is all of the above it is often the correct answer.
  11. When one of the options is none of the above you must be able to eliminate all of the other answers.
  12. When two options are similar looking, the correct answer is often both of them or both should be crossed out as distracters.
  13. Longer and more complete answers are likely to be correct.
  14. If A and C is one of the choices, and you know that A is correct, reread B to be certain you can eliminate it. If in doubt, choose A and C. If you have not the faintest idea, the middle answers, B and C, are often correct.
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Essay Exams:
  1. Know how to spot question words and know what they mean. Examples: Analyze, Compare, Contrast, Critique, Define, Describe, Discuss, Examine, Explain, Evaluate, Illustrate, Outline, State, Summarize, Trace.
  2. When studying a chapter or a section of a chapter ask yourself questions about what you have just read. Think of possible essay questions that a professor may ask you on the material. Use these questions as study questions.
  3. Use a test file if available to go over the possible essay question formats that your instructor might use, or ask your instructor directly for some sample questions.
  4. Use the essay question to formulate a thesis for your response.
  5. Use the essay question to outline your answer.
  6. If you are a poor speller, make a spelling list of important proper nouns that you might need to use in an essay answer.
  7. Remember that spelling, punctuation, and grammar will count especially if they get in the way of the reader understanding your writing. If you have problems in these areas, get help.
  8. Support general statements with specific examples.
  9. If you have poor penmanship, write on every other line or try to print.
  10. Bring a blue
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