Student Skills: Studying

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Studying well doesn’t necessarily mean studying a lot; it means reading efficiently and being able to hold on to the information. Before anything happens you have to get in your zone. That means finding a space – both at a STUDY SPACE and in your head – where you can CONCENTRATE.

In that space, reading can be more like SKIMMING, instead of long and intensive. And I’ll give you a tip, there are tons of tricks to help MEMORIZE information, but the best way is to see it often. Instead of studying vocab for an hour the night before a quiz, try fifteen minutes a night for four nights; either way, it adds up to 60 minutes, but one will do you just a few points better.

And laid out in front of you, it often helps to see MULTIPLE SOURCES of information. A textbook has facts, but it can be dry…and limited. Maybe your teacher gave you a handout with a short story illustrating a point from the textbook or a class lecture that you surely still have the notes from. Heck, maybe someone made a youTube video out of that story. Getting a big picture can help hold together all the little details that you’re trying to memorize.