STRATEGIES FOR GROUP STUDY SUCCESS
•Limit your group size (five or less)
•Set long term and short term goals
•Determine a regular weekly schedule and leadership rotation
•Create study materials for one another
•Share workload.
•Be effective
leader and
participant
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WHAT AND WHY QUESTIONS
•Choose materials that are important
•Do not study every word and bit of information
•Know your purpose
•Prioritize material
•Set specific goals
•Within the sections
you study, separate
main points from unimportant details. Ask yourself: “what is the most important information?”
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HOW QUESTION
How-use strategies that work for you
HOW TO STUDY
•When you care about something your remember more easily.
•Create purpose, intention and emotional connection
Find personal examples that
make information important (ex. Helping your family business)
•Put your notes to work-review them
•Understand what you memorize-find logical connections and fit new information with what you know.
•Study during short, frequent sessions
For example if you have 2 weeks before a test set up study time 3 times per week instead of the last 2 days before the test.
HOW TO STUDY
•Get your body ready-lack of sleep affects your memory and learning
•Use analytical thinking skills-associate new information with what you know.
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HOW TO STUDY
•Organize the material you need to study
•Chunking method: divide the material into smaller sections and master each section (48056892164)
•Make outlines or think links
•Be mindful when you study more than one subject
•Do not study different subjects back to back, it causes confusion
•Practice also what is in the middle (we tend to remember the fist and last)
THINK LINK
HOW TO STUDY
•Recite, rehearse and write
•Repetition is a helpful
memory tool
•3 step strategy
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1. Find the main ideas, then recite, rehearse and rewrite them
2.Convert each main idea into a key word, phrase or image. Write these on an index card.
3.One by one look at keywords on your index cards, rehearse, recite and write the information you remember. Write title of the topic on one side of the card and explanation on another
USING FLASH CARDS
•Use flash card as a self-test
•Carry the cards with you and review frequently
•Shuffle the cards
and learn the information in various orders
•Test yourself in both directions
•Reduce the stack of cards as you learn (put aside the ones you know)
HOW TO STUDY
•Use audio strategies
•Create or buy audio flash cards
•Record study questions and leave 10-15 seconds so you can answer loud
•Record the correct answer after the pause. dokyausa.com
•For ex.: “The three
skills needed for
successful intelligence are:”…………….analytical,
creative and practical skills.
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HOW TO STUDY
•Use Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Learning Style Strategies
MEMORIZING MATH AND SCIENCE
•Review processes and procedures (problem solving, lab experiments)
•Do problems, problems and more problems extravagantmath.wordpress.com
•Fight frustration with action
•Work with others
•Focus on learning styles
•Strive for doing problems correctly
USEFUL TRICKS
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ACRONYMS
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MEMORY TRICKS
•Create visual images
Ex. Remember creative
skills by using images.
•Create rhymes
“Growth mindset is a good bet
That you can succeed
Every time you need.”
WHAT STUDY STRATEGIES HELP YOU PUT IT ALL TOGETHER?
1.Create a summary of reading material
●Focus on the main ideas and examples that support them
●Eliminate less important details and use your own words to make the information clear.
●Organize your
summary by subject or topic
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WHAT STUDY STRATEGIES HELP YOU PUT IT ALL TOGETHER?
2. Combine class and reading notes into a master set
●Step 1:Focus on what is important by reducing to essence
●Step 2: Recite what you know-
-passive understanding will not help you recreate the material on an exam or apply it to problems.
●Step 3: Use critical thinking: think why your reading notes are different from class notes
WHAT STUDY STRATEGIES HELP YOU PUT IT ALL TOGETHER?
●Step 4: Create study sheets-one page synthesis of all key points in one theme
●Step 5: Review and review again
“Repetition is the mother of learning.”