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How to study

Published on September 29, 2006 in Educational and Mental. 0 Comments

Being a student, studying is a big part of my daily routine (well, it should be). I lately was wondering if my studying skills were good enough and if I could bring them to a new level, doing for example, faster revision, better remembering, etc. So I went to my favorite internet friend, Google. With a small search, how to study, I would find 2,020,000,000 results. Great. I simply took the first few pages and selected what I think is the best reference for a “how to study” text.

So here’s a list of website, each with a small description of what you can find there, also with my personal

Each step broken down into small categories, concise. Easy to read and about many different topics related to studying.
Rating: 10/10
http://www.studygs.net/

A lot of common sense, some gems, Homework / Study Tips.
Rating: 8/10
http://homeworktips.about.com/

Many articles about differents subjects such as Learning, Writing and Technology. Long article that explain why things are the way they are and how we should be doing them.
Rating: 9/10
http://www.learningcommons.uoguelph.ca/

(Microsoft) Word texts about different learning strategies, direct on the subject.
Rating: 10/10
http://www.dartmouth.edu/

Some pdf and power point presentation about top 10 techniques or tips on the subject of learning.
Rating: 9/10
http://www.yorku.ca/

A long guide on studying supported by cartoons!
Rating: 10/10
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/

Different subjects, different question answered. A “where are you having trouble” faq.
Rating: 8/10
http://www.harvardwestlake.com/

A directory of differents articles related to the subject.
Rating: 7/10
http://www.cpcc.cc.nc.us/

Great guides about different ways you should handle studying and homeworking.
Rating: 10/10
http://www.academictips.org/

Reading, writing, listening. Each aspect of learning is covered in this one page/topic guide.
Rating: 8/10
http://www.prenhall.com/

Different tips and tools written in a easy to understand articles.
Rating: 9/10
http://www.sas.calpoly.edu/

Covers important aspects of studying. Written in parts for better reading.
Rating: 9/10
http://www.kent.ac.uk/

University of Sussex lectures on Study Skills for Mature Students.
Rating: 10/10
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/

Small articles on the topic of studying.
Rating: 7/10
http://www.bucks.edu/

Imaged articles which are concise, straight on the subject and a great source of information for beginners.
Rating: 10/10
http://www.how-to-study.com/

Point by point articles which list all of the do’s.
Rating: 8/10
http://www.uiowa.edu/

Link to many differents website (which are included here. Here, you can find their top 10 guides for studying (in form of link to website)
Rating: 9/10
http://www.howtostudy.com/

Handle school with ease

Published on April 23, 2006 in Educational and Personal. 0 Comments

Every student on the planet will tell you that if it was possible for them to deal with school without doing much work they would do anything learn how. Well, the answer is a simple method: do what you have to do on a period of time instead of all at once. Overload = Hard work.

Do it when you feel like it. If you’re at home wondering what you could do, find an homework that need to be done and do maybe 1 or 2 numbers. It doesn’t need to be big, just do some. Then later that day, you may feel like working some more, so far you’ll have done ~5-8 numbers or more, all this under your personal acceptance and using time that was being wasted doing nothing. The good news is you still have 3 days to do the homework and maybe 7 more numbers left (out of 15, that’s 50% done !!) to complete your homework. The next day you might not feel like doing work or you just want to take a pause. The day after, you do 3 more numbers so there’s only 2 left for tommorow.

All this seems a bit too easy but let’s look at this in a number perspective: if a exercise takes you 5-10 minutes, you’ll spend 35-70 minutes over 2 periods of time, which makes it 15-35 minutes per period. That’s not much compared to the 112.5 required minutes (1.9 hours) in total (15# times 7.5 minutes each). Splitting the work is the best way to be stress free and to get a better understanding of any subject because your brain doesn’t get overworked by too much all at once, you don’t feel pushed to do the work and you see your homeworks as a way to use your free time where you know you would be doing nothing at all.

Doing so will generally assure you a 10-25% better understanding and better grades at school. Wow, better grades, wouldn’t you like that, especially if you know there was less work and stress involved?

I know this method will sound too harsh to those 0 minutes homeworkers out there, but you can’t gain something from doing nothing, that’s impossible. It’s like trying to eat without food, good luck.

Experiment it and see for yourself. You’ll never want to come back to the old method ever again.