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JumpStart Your Learning Tutorial: Test Your Perceptions

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The following poll statements are about the perceptions people have of learning at university.
Complete the poll to see how your perceptions compare to the perceptions of others.

Click  after each question to see the poll results.

Please note: This is not a quiz. It doesn't matter if you get the answer right or wrong. If you are unsure, click the Don't Know button and follow the link to learn more.

Test Your Perceptions

On average, students experience a 20% drop in their marks from High School to University.
Agree: 280 votes (83.33%)
Disagree: 31 votes (9.23%)
Don't Know: 25 votes (7.44%)
Total Votes: 336
Marks in the high sixties or low seventies are considered respectable, particularly at the first year level.
Agree: 252 votes (79.25%)
Disagree: 55 votes (17.3%)
Don't know: 11 votes (3.46%)
Total Votes: 318
Students should focus less on their grades and more on learning the material. As your academic skills improve, so will your grades.
Agree: 934 votes (93.12%)
Disagree: 37 votes (3.69%)
Don't know: 32 votes (3.19%)
Total Votes: 1003
Academic advisors are available throughout the year to help you choose your program, major, and even your classes.
Agree: 900 votes (92.31%)
Disagree: 41 votes (4.21%)
Don't know: 34 votes (3.49%)
Total Votes: 975
Successful students treat studying at university as they do a full time job. For this reason, building a daily/weekly schedule, and sticking to it, is of utmost importance.
Agree: 892 votes (91.02%)
Disagree: 51 votes (5.2%)
Don't know: 37 votes (3.78%)
Total Votes: 980
There are more first year students than in any other year so you can expect to find yourself in classes of 100 or more students.
Agree: 862 votes (87.78%)
Disagree: 76 votes (7.74%)
Don't know: 44 votes (4.48%)
Total Votes: 982
Writing essays in university is different than writing essays in high school.
Agree: 260 votes (88.74%)
Disagree: 16 votes (5.46%)
Don't know: 17 votes (5.8%)
Total Votes: 293
Using Google Scholar is better than just Google for university level research but learning how to use the university library is preferred.
Agree: 242 votes (85.82%)
Disagree: 7 votes (2.48%)
Don't know: 33 votes (11.7%)
Total Votes: 282
Successful students are skilled help-seekers. They have conquered their fear of asking for help and know why, when and who to ask for help.
Agree: 264 votes (94.62%)
Disagree: 5 votes (1.79%)
Don't Know: 10 votes (3.58%)
Total Votes: 279
Learning in high school focuses on memorizing information while learning at university focuses on analysis and synthesis of the information in order to make broader connections between all the material you learn.
Agree: 887 votes (92.3%)
Disagree: 34 votes (3.54%)
Don't know: 40 votes (4.16%)
Total Votes: 961
Bloom's Taxonomy can help us understand how learning at university is assessed.
Agree: 154 votes (52.56%)
Disagree: 7 votes (2.39%)
Don't Know: 132 votes (45.05%)
Total Votes: 293

Source: Statements are adapted from 'Shifting Expectations', Student Learning Services, University of Saskatchewan.

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