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!
Category: How to Study
Jun 05, 2012 | 0 comments
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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 [...]
May 30, 2011 | 8 comments
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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 [...]
May 23, 2011 | 2 comments
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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 [...]
Apr 05, 2011 | 4 comments
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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 [...]
Mar 28, 2011 | 2 comments
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Should You Be a Coffee Shop Studier?
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 [...]
Mar 23, 2011 | 0 comments
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Making Time in Your Schedule for Study
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 [...]
Mar 05, 2011 | 0 comments
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Making a Winning Study Plan
Most students will agree that the hardest part of any course is the out-of-class studying. Usually there’s so much to study that people start to procrastinate, putting of their studying until the last possible moment. Then, after cramming all night for a test, students arrive at class feeling tired and dazed by how much information [...]
Feb 25, 2011 | 0 comments
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Snacking When You Study
Ahhh, the late night study session. It’s challenging, it’s aggravating, with friends it can be fun, it’s important. It’s so many crazy emotions rolled into one. It’s also a time when you often just have to have a snack. Seriously, it’s not just fun to snack when you’re studying with friends, it’s actually a good [...]
Feb 15, 2011 | 2 comments
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Pros and Cons of Studying with a Computer
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 [...]
