A Self-Help Quiz for College Students and Recent Grads: This quiz is designed to “help you learn to identify your transferable skills and marketable personal traits--and recognize achievements that you didn't previously notice or fully appreciate.”

1		EXERCISE: Take the quiz –give it some serious thought, and jot your answers down in the text box below. When you’re done, read them over. Do your answers give you any ideas about what kinds of careers you might be suited for? You might want to email your answers to yourself for future reference—and, if you’ve received permission in advance, to a career counselor with whom you can discuss them.

Time Management Quiz : A short quiz, designed specifically for college students, which calculates your “Time Management score.”

2		EXERCISE: Take the quiz, and reflect on your score. Did you get a perfect 10? If so, share the secrets to your success below! If not, what are some strategies you might use to improve your time management skills? Refer to your text and to http://www.ucc.vt.edu/lynch/TM4Steps.htm for ideas, and record your thoughts below.

Time Management Quiz by Barbara Reinhold: Sponsored by MonsterIndia.com, a job service site, this time management quiz is geared to evaluate efficiency in the workplace.

3		EXERCISE: Assuming you have some experience in a job, take this quiz just as it’s written. If you don’t have this experience, take it as a student (substituting “instructor” for “boss,” “school” for “work,” and so on). Reflect on your score, and compare it to the score you received on the Quiz above designed specifically for college students. Can you draw any conclusions, either about the way you view school vs. work or about the way the quizzes are written? Record your thoughts below.

The Vark Questionnaire on Learning Styles: A questionnaire that helps you understand your preferences for learning (or, as the authors of the site put it, “the way you work with information”).

4		EXERCISE: Take the quiz and make some notes on what you discover. If you have time, check out the alternate versions “for younger people” (high school students) and “for athletes”. How different are they from the quiz you took first? Does either one seem more relevant to the way you learn than the first quiz?

About College.Com: Billed as a “complete guide to everything you really wanted to know about college life and adjustment but didn't know whom to ask! “

5		EXERCISE: Who hosts About College.com? What’s their interest in helping students succeed? Do they appear to be impartial? Would you seek advice from them, or take it? Explain why or why not.

Educational Attainment in the United States, 2003: A report from the U.S. Census Bureau on the state of higher education in the U.S. today, broken down by age, ethnicity, and gender, among other variables.

6		EXERCISE: Scan this report – pay particular attention to the first paragraph, to the headings in color, and to the many graphs and figures it includes. What are some of the specific findings of the report? Does any of the information you discover here surprise you?