Provides strategies for your academic and personal success in college. This work enables you learn to take charge of your learning; sharpen your skills in note taking, reading, memory, writing, and test-taking; enhance your social relationships; learn vital information about staying healthy; and connect to information on career planning.

The strategies for your academic and personal success in college are all at your fingertips in "Your College Experience: Strategies for Success, Concise Seventh Edition". You'll learn to take charge of your learning; sharpen your skills in note taking, reading, memory, writing, and test-taking; enhance your social relationships; get to know yourself better by exploring your values; learn vital information about staying healthy; connect to information on career planning; and more! Achieve It features in every chapter give you practice in setting goals. Try It! exercises give you hands-on practice. And, each new textbook comes with ThomsonNOW, an online learning tool that provides you with a personalized study plan that will save you time while you improve your understanding of the concepts of the course.

Part 1. SETTING THE STAGE FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS. 1. Succeeding in College and in Life. 2. Managing Your Time. Part 2. ACHIEVING ACADEMIC SUCCESS. 3. Discovering How You Learn: A Primer for Lifelong Learning. 4. College Courses and Careers: Learning for a Lifetime. 5. Engagement with Learning. 6. Thinking Critically. 7. Listening, Note-Taking, and Participating. 8. Reading and Remembering. 9. Doing Your Best on Exams and Tests. Part 3. ACHIEVING LIFELONG SUCCESS. 10. Developing Values. 11. Diversity: Appreciating Differences Among Us. 12. Staying Healthy in College and in Life.