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Your action plan

Your action plan
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We hope by understanding a little more about university life, you’ll feel more prepared to make the next big steps towards your future and that you build key skills that’ll help you make the most of your time whilst you’re there.

Throughout the course, you’ll see plenty of ‘UoR tips’ (like the one below!) which suggest ways you can prepare for uni. In this first week, these tips will revolve around researching universities and in the subsequent weeks the tips will focus on what you can do before you arrive.

Each week, we’ll ask you to record three action points you can achieve in this PDF so that by the end of the course you’ll have an action plan you can take forward.

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Check the bottom of each Step as you’ll often find useful further reading and downloadable resources.

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