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 [...]
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The question of whether a computer can help students in high school or college was settled long ago. It’s nearly impossible to find a student who doesn’t use a PC to help him type papers or look up things in encyclopedias. But what about major study sessions? The traditional form of studying has consisted mostly [...]
Have you been floating through life? If so, here’s a warning for you: Students can’t float through their classes and do well. You must be organized and disciplined. In short, you must have a plan. The “study plan” has different meanings to different people. At the college level, a study plan is a formal, highly-structured [...]
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No matter how easy or hard the class, no matter the topic of the course, you can’t get away from them: Lists are everywhere. Whether you’re required to memorize the Elements, the systems in the human body, or the capitals of the fifty United States, any time you take tests, you can expect to have [...]
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Study on test preparation – The Test Preparation Study was conducted from 2004 to 2008 by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, What Did Teachers Tell Us? Preparing Students for the Test We asked the teachers what activities or approaches they would recommend to a new Grade [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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You’ve seen them, you’ve talked to them–but are you one of them? I’m talking about those people at the local coffee shop, who have their laptop computers and perhaps a textbook or two, along with their notebook and pen. I’m talking about the coffee shop studier. This is the person who, rather than going to [...]
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Sometimes the busy student finds it hard to find time to study for his classes. Oh, it’s not that you don’t want to study. But between family stuff and extracurricular activities and maybe even a part-time job–how do you find the time? By having a plan, that’s how. Here are some suggestions that will help [...]
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