The How to Study Handbook
Your complete guide to getting better grades with less studying!
Tired of endless studying? 200 pages of everything you need to spend less time studying, get better grades, pass your exams and have more time for yourself!
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Teaching Study Skills
How to Study is one of the most important skills but one that is rarely taught. Not sure where to begin? We have 2 complete study skills lesson plans for teachers.
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What I wish my students knew (video)
Here is a great video from a veteran school teacher on what he wishes his students knew – or, how to study! Related Posts 3 Tips to Help Your Organize Your Thoughts While Studying (4) How to Take Notes Videos (0) Sleep your way to higher grades (0) Taking Notes: Outline Method (17) Forming a [...] More >>>
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How to Take Notes Videos
See our other posts on how to take notes Tips for taking better notes Note Taking Methods Split-Page Method Cornell Method Outline Method Excellent video on Cornell Note Taking Related Posts Taking Notes: Outline Method (17) Taking Notes: Split-Page Method (4) What I wish my students knew (video) (0) Taking [...] More >>>
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What Your Instructor Wants to See on Your Exam
It sounds like such an easy question: ”What does your instructor or teacher want to see from you on your test paper?” And the easy answer: ”He wants to see the right answers.” However, it’s a bit more complicated than that. What an instructor really wants is to see that you are grasping the material [...] More >>>
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Yes, You Really Can Study Math
It’s a popular misconception that you can’t really study for math. People who say you can’t will admit that you can do math assignments and math homework. But actually studying it–looking at material in order to better on tests and upcoming assignments–that, they say, is impossible. They’re wrong. It’s true that studying math is different [...] More >>>
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Effective Study with the Study Scrapbook
Scrap booking as a hobby is all the rage these days. Go to any department store and many supermarkets, and you’ll find whole aisles or half-aisled devoted to scrap-booking. Hobby stores, likewise, have caught onto the trend and started stocking scrapbooks, dividers, and stickers for making the best memory books. There are even scrap-bookers clubs [...] More >>>
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Myths You Might Believe About Studying–But Shouldn’t
Most of the self-help myths that we tend to believe come from well-meaning people. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make them any less myths. In the field of study, for instance, what usually happens is this: A person finds a technique that works for them, and helps them improve their grades. They then spread the word that [...] More >>>
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Acing Classes with Little or No Study
You’ve probably known people, either in high school or college, who seemed able to pass any class–even make A’s–with little or no study. It wasn’t necessarily your imagination, either. It’s a fact that people learn differently, and some people manage to absorb material without “study” in the traditional sense. That is, they might have other [...] More >>>
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The Study Guide Exchange: Great Group Study Method
Sometimes group study can be a productive thing, and sometimes, not so much. Group study becomes less than productive when your study sessions turn into occasions for friends to get together to have a good time and share gossip. Often, there’s little actual study that goes on during these sessions. However, that doesn’t have to [...] More >>>
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How To Study Quote of the day June 19th, 2013
Submitted tips on how to study. Got a study tip to share? Send it in
Play calm music while you are studying; but make it music that stimulates you as well. I like listening to Beethoven when Im doing boring homework like French, science or math problems. The music keeps my brain active and helps me stay alert and keeps me from zoning out |