- do. not. procrastinate.
- get the work done when you get home from school, don't ever postpone it even if only for a hour or the day
- study and organize your notes daily
- in case there's an assignment, start doing it (or planning on how to do it) right away
- make flashcards from your notes
- take notes [use your readings printable]
- do not just copy from the text book, if you get to the point where you stop thinking about what you're writing it's time to take a break
- create questions from the text
- write down questions to practice with (how, when, who, why, etc.)
- evaluate the notes' content
- do i need to know this? can this be asked on an exam? if so, how might it be asked? how else might it be asked? can this be applied to other subjects? is there a real-life application to this that will help me remember? will i even remember this in a week?
- don't let them to rot: mark them up, edit them, rework them, copy or type them or, best of all, write a short summary (just making sure you’re hitting on the key points)
- type up some questions based off of your notes to save for later studying
- make your own questions and quizz yourself on them, marking down connections as you read [use your study plan printable]
- commit to review previous weeks’ material every week [use your task list printable]
- make a summary of your summaries and quiz yourself on the questions you made
- highlight only things you want to go back to later making sure the purpose of it is to quickly find information later
- make study sheets based off of it
- make study sheets
- take concepts you’ve been learning and put them together in different ways
- make a summary in your own words
- make sure you’re actually creating something new or else you’re not going to remember it
- in class, write down your questions and the answer immediately
- if you don't get a chance to ask the teacher, ask a classmate
- always have your assignment planner printable with you so you can always have information on due dates or paper topics
mar 4 2016 ∞
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