Your Personal Study Timetable

To complete your course, you will need to spend the same amount of time studying as students who learn in a classroom situation in schools. Most courses should take between 100 to 120 hours to complete. There are no short cuts or easy ways to gain a satisfactory result.

Success in a self-teaching situation usually involves being well organized. Set aside a number of relatively short, definite periods each week for course study—don’t do it all in one block.

Most students find that working in one-hour chunks on a regular basis is better than putting in three- or four-hour marathons once in a while. You also need to allow sufficient time to prepare for each test.

To help you organize your time so that you can work through the course at an even pace, you may want to develop your own study schedule. A sample timetable is included at the end of this guide.

Suggestions for Managing Your Course

• Do the sections in the proper order. If you have difficulty with your course, it is best if you wait for each section assignment to be graded before working on the next so that you can benefit from corrections and comments. You should, however, keep on with the reading of the next section’s lessons while you wait.
  
• Don’t skip or omit section assignments. If you cannot do a question because you don’t understand it, you may contact your teacher for help.
  
• If handwriting assignments use blue or black ink, not pencil. It is all right to cross things out, so long as you do it neatly and what you intend to have marked is clear.
  
• Do one section assignment at a time and submit it immediately when you are finished. Try not to submit batches of section assignments.
  
• For section assignments put your name, student number, course name, and section assignment number at the top of every page in case pages get separated.
  
• Don’t submit the lesson guided practice unless your teacher asks to see them.
  
• Make sure all your work is your own. Don’t ever copy answers, either from a book or another student.
  
• Remember that your teacher wants to help you do well in the course. To be effective, learning should be a two-way conversation, so contact your teacher if you have any questions or comments.

 

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