WGU D389 LEARNING STRATEGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION PRACTICE
STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Commonly recognized strategies leading to academic success - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- setting SMART
goals and keeping up with them
- maintaining a schedule for school work and managing time effectively
- access all resources available to you
In what ways do you benefit from setting and achieving meaningful goals? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
helps track progress, manage time, and identify priorities
- helps you identify what you need to meet (the goal), what you need to get there (plan), and the steps
to achieve this plan.
What is a SMART Goal? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- specific
- measurable
- achievable
- realistic
- timely
What planning and organizational strategies could you use so that you can get everything done in the
time you have available? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having motive and mission for going to school,
maintain consistent sleep patterns, always carrying two gathering points with you, listening as if you
were going to teach the material to your friend, process using what/when/where method at the end of
every day, have a designated assignment time scheduled regularly.
What are three emotional blocks to time management (include a description of each)? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Having major stressors causes exhaustion, mindset controls perspective, and
communication dictates how well you are able to advocate for yourself.
What are four tips to change negative self-talk? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Become aware and pay
attention to your thinking, Reframe cognitively distorted thoughts or ways of thinking, keep a gratitude
journal, analyze thoughts more deeply for the flawed negative thinking patterns.
, How can you change your attitude to accomplish more? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Reform negative
thinking, self-talk, and self-doubt while focusing on goals
How can you overcome self-doubt? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify and list what causes the doubt, let
go of negative perceptions of reality, use positive thoughts and language, and stay steadily focused on
your goals.
Describe the Tapering Approach study strategy: by providing the method and advantages: - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Use and four-hour study block and divide it into one hour of studying, followed by a ten-
minute break; next is 50 min of studying and a ten-minute break, lastly you have a 45-minute study
block followed by a 5-minute break. The final two sessions are solid 30-minute power sessions.
Identify commonly recognized strategies leading to success in studying and test-taking. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅PQ3R, Note taking using different methods such as the outline or mind mapping,
methodical approaches, use questions to learn material.
Cornell Method: way to divide the paper that helps avoid laborious measure for recopying notes -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Method: 2 1/1 inch left-handed margin used for labeling each idea and detail
with a key word or clue, 6 inch right-handed margin used for copying notes as well as you can with as
much information as possible
Advantages: organized and systematic for recording both notes and key ideas and main points for
reviewing notes, easy format for pulling out major concepts and ideas, simple and efficient, saves time
and effort
Outlining Method: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Method: the most generalized information is listed as far
left as possible, where each indentation expands on the more general term before it, can have multiple
levels of specification by having multiple levels of indentations.
Advantages: well organized if done properly, outlining records content as well as relationships, reduces
editing and is easy to review by turning main points into questions
Mind-Mapping: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Method: visual notetaking form which relates each fact or idea
to another through circles and lines connected; maximizes active participation, affords immediate
knowledge as to its understanding and emphasizes critical thinking
Advantages: helps to track information visually, relationships and connections can be easily seen, easy
to edit, review calls for restructuring of thought processes, easily made into other forms of notes
STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Commonly recognized strategies leading to academic success - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- setting SMART
goals and keeping up with them
- maintaining a schedule for school work and managing time effectively
- access all resources available to you
In what ways do you benefit from setting and achieving meaningful goals? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
helps track progress, manage time, and identify priorities
- helps you identify what you need to meet (the goal), what you need to get there (plan), and the steps
to achieve this plan.
What is a SMART Goal? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- specific
- measurable
- achievable
- realistic
- timely
What planning and organizational strategies could you use so that you can get everything done in the
time you have available? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having motive and mission for going to school,
maintain consistent sleep patterns, always carrying two gathering points with you, listening as if you
were going to teach the material to your friend, process using what/when/where method at the end of
every day, have a designated assignment time scheduled regularly.
What are three emotional blocks to time management (include a description of each)? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Having major stressors causes exhaustion, mindset controls perspective, and
communication dictates how well you are able to advocate for yourself.
What are four tips to change negative self-talk? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Become aware and pay
attention to your thinking, Reframe cognitively distorted thoughts or ways of thinking, keep a gratitude
journal, analyze thoughts more deeply for the flawed negative thinking patterns.
, How can you change your attitude to accomplish more? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Reform negative
thinking, self-talk, and self-doubt while focusing on goals
How can you overcome self-doubt? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify and list what causes the doubt, let
go of negative perceptions of reality, use positive thoughts and language, and stay steadily focused on
your goals.
Describe the Tapering Approach study strategy: by providing the method and advantages: - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Use and four-hour study block and divide it into one hour of studying, followed by a ten-
minute break; next is 50 min of studying and a ten-minute break, lastly you have a 45-minute study
block followed by a 5-minute break. The final two sessions are solid 30-minute power sessions.
Identify commonly recognized strategies leading to success in studying and test-taking. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅PQ3R, Note taking using different methods such as the outline or mind mapping,
methodical approaches, use questions to learn material.
Cornell Method: way to divide the paper that helps avoid laborious measure for recopying notes -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Method: 2 1/1 inch left-handed margin used for labeling each idea and detail
with a key word or clue, 6 inch right-handed margin used for copying notes as well as you can with as
much information as possible
Advantages: organized and systematic for recording both notes and key ideas and main points for
reviewing notes, easy format for pulling out major concepts and ideas, simple and efficient, saves time
and effort
Outlining Method: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Method: the most generalized information is listed as far
left as possible, where each indentation expands on the more general term before it, can have multiple
levels of specification by having multiple levels of indentations.
Advantages: well organized if done properly, outlining records content as well as relationships, reduces
editing and is easy to review by turning main points into questions
Mind-Mapping: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Method: visual notetaking form which relates each fact or idea
to another through circles and lines connected; maximizes active participation, affords immediate
knowledge as to its understanding and emphasizes critical thinking
Advantages: helps to track information visually, relationships and connections can be easily seen, easy
to edit, review calls for restructuring of thought processes, easily made into other forms of notes
