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If you’re used to high school work, college assignments can be pretty intimidating. In this article, The Wall Street Journal walks you through the best ways to approach assignments; a college sophomore shares her top study tips for finals; and an expert on study tools reveals how to cut through the anxiety and do your best work.

The folks over at Unigo and WSJ on Campus recently included two of our Silver Gurus in their article titled “How to Pick the Right Classes” where students weighed in on how they learned to go about picking the right classes and what the best strategies for doing so are.

Here’s what our Gurus had to say:

“Take classes that you’re interested in! If you don’t like the material, then you will regret it, and you probably won’t do as well. You can probably find classes that you are at least semi-interested in to fill even your most dreaded requirements. For example, I had to fulfill a science requirement, and to do that, I took a human evolution and disease class, which was absolutely fascinating. And despite the fact that science was never my best subject, I did so well in that class because I was so interested.”

-Kaylin Dalrymple, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Using online resources like GradeGuru can be very helpful when looking into a course. Just as with anything else in life, if you have an idea of what you’re about to get into, you’ll understand it so much better. It’s like following directions: if you can review the directions and a map before you begin your trip, you find it a lot easier to navigate throughout, rather than having a GPS yell, ‘merge left NOW!’ when you’re in the far right lane on an eight-lane highway.”

-Erica DeVasier, Indiana University Bloomington

For the full article and for more tips on picking the right classes visit: How to Pick the Right Classes