Tips for success in Third Level courses

BY now most students in Third Level should be well settled into the current academic year. It is a fact, however, that the percentage of Third Level students who don’t know what is expected of them by the course administrators is very high which has a bearing on their workload.

This also has an impact on their results and even on their levels of stress causing them to score below their potential. To enable you to achieve your potential certain techniques are essential. The following advice is an excerpt of some of these.

Third level differs from secondary school in two ways: the first is you are not just expected to learn off material and reproduce it in an exam like in the Leaving Cert, but you are expected to plan out whatever task you are given, research the information required and use this to form well thought out and cogent arguments about something ie. they don’t want parrots but people who can think for themselves using evidence from many reputable sources and construct coherent arguments. Read Full Story