Diligence, self-control and patience make you skilled. It’s a quality you need to complete your studies, and it’s a quality the world of work demands when you’ve finished your studies. In working life, there are strict time limits that must be kept. So why not start practicing hard work and time limits already during your education. Many fall away. In some studies, the figure is over 50 percent. Only 40 percent manage to complete the bachelor’s degree in the standard time, which is three years. 30 percent do not complete their studies. The most common reason is poor study routines, laziness and the wrong choice of course. Here are ten pieces of advice for this year’s students: 1. Go to the lectures Lectures are a supplement to the syllabus. If you do not turn up, you will miss out on important information, explanations and discussions that take place during the lectures. In addition, you miss out on a better understanding of the subjects you will be taking the exam in. 2. Be critical of artificial intelligence Chatbots are an available aid for stupid questions you don’t dare ask lecturers and fellow students. If you use artificial intelligence as a summary and simplification of syllabus material and at the same time check the summary against the syllabus literature, the chatbot will be a useful tool. But if you simplify texts because you do not understand or know enough about the topic, you will quickly be exposed by the examiner. 3. Don’t overestimate yourself Even if you think you can do most things after high school, it’s a self-delusion. For example, you know nothing about everything you don’t know, or what a good understanding of a subject is. That’s why you’re getting an education, and that’s why you’re unsure of what it means to be a good student. Listen to your lecturers, not the student organisations. They just say that the educational institutions should make fewer demands, and that you should get more loans and grants from the loan fund. Both are bad ideas. 4. Don’t underestimate pugging It takes time to get good at it. Of course, you can take the shortcut via artificial intelligence and read up on, for example, the Reformation or the Second World War there. But if you don’t initially know whether Martin Luther was a pirate or a German theologian, or whether Winston Churchill was an IKEA chair or a British Prime Minister, you’ll have to Google for quite some time before you understand what the Reformation was about and what role Churchill played during the war . Never underestimate push-and-pull learning! It provides a good basis for later interpretation, analysis and understanding. Your qualities as “cut-and-paste experts” from the Internet and artificial intelligence do not impress sensors, quite the opposite. 5. As a student, you are privileged As a student, you get good study support compared to other countries, financed by your fellow citizens: the tax payers. You are privileged, because you get both a long education and pocket money, while at the same time you end up with a well-paid, exciting job if you finish. As a student, you will be paid NOK 151,700 per academic year, divided into NOK 27,500 at the start of each semester, and NOK 12,500 each month. 6. You are one of many Today it is easier than ever to end up at the right end of the grade scale at almost all levels of the education system, and from this autumn it is also easier to enter nursing and teacher training courses. 53 per cent get a grade A or B on the bachelor thesis, and only 2.5 per cent fail. In other words, grade inflation has occurred. With few exceptions, the elite studies are gone, and the requirements for entry are, with a few exceptions, pretty much the same everywhere: passing upper secondary school. 7. Not everyone is good This year, 146,414 students applied for admission to universities and colleges. Not everyone is good enough to finish. Seven out of ten of those who drop out never finish. Perhaps the dream of an academic education was not right for them? Remember that there are many jobs that are rewarding and well paid, and that do not require higher education. But for many young people, it is unfortunately difficult to admit that higher education is not for them. The consolation is that the lack of academic labor is not exactly pressing in Norway. What the labor market needs above all else, according to the working life organizations NHO and LO, is more “clever hands”, that is, people with a trade or professional education. 8. Effort and result are not the same If you are a student who is weak in books, it is important to work hard to achieve good grades. It can be perceived as unfair that fellow students who half-asleep throughout their study time still achieve top grades. It does not mean that all hope of an exciting job is unattainable for you. Working life looks at more than just your grade level. The most important thing is that you complete your studies to the best of your ability. 9. Grades open doors Grades are necessary, because they sharpen your ability to pull yourself together, organize your study work and drop a large part of the social activities that take your attention away from your studies. Good grades are the best door opener to further studies at home and abroad. In a country with over 300,000 students, the importance of good grades is more important than ever in the competition to enter prestigious studies and universities. But remember that working life has good experience in finding the best candidates. They look at more than your grades. 10. Laziness and poor study routines punish themselves Many of those who perform at a high level in working life also did so when they were studying. Students who miss lectures and reading rooms do worse than students who show up and read the syllabus. Laziness and poor study routines are punishable, while discipline, renunciation and progress pay off. Those three words are the recipe for everything you want to be good at, whether it’s sports, education or professional practice. Published 04/09/2024, at 12.29
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Ten pieces of advice for new students – Expression
