Study
Tip 1: Underlining
Underlining is one of the simplest and best known study tips. It’s easy
to highlight the most significant parts of what you’re reading likewise the
most important ones. Ideally you should do a comprehensive read of a text
before you even consider underlining anything. Only on the second reading
should you proceed to underline the most notable aspects.
The act of underlining something means you are engaging with certain key
aspects of the text and leaving the rest as sometimes the other text is just
the help for the time when you study the topics for the first time. There is no
need to go crazy and highlight entire blocks of text. You should highlight one key sentence per paragraph and a
few important phrases here and there. You can only retain a certain amount so it’s best to retain the most
important information.
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Tip 2: Make
Your Own Study Notes
Taking Notes is
one of the most widespread study skills out there in even the secondary schools.
Essentially the aim of
note-taking is to summarize lectures
or articles in your own words so you can easily remember the ideas. In most
cases, the key is to be able to summarize the content as as possible while not leaving out any key info.
When creating Notes, you can do it the traditional way with the good pen
and paper or you can utilize online tools as well but paper pen idea is the
better one as you have been engaged with the words by your hands and eyes
together and remembered more precisely.
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Tip 3: Mind
Mapping
A good Mind Map can save you many hours of study and further consolidate your knowledge for your exams. Mind Maps are an
extremely versatile tools. They can be used for brainstorming, outlining essays
or study topics and for general exam preparation.
Exam Time
offers the ability to create Mind Maps quickly and easily which makes them the ideal tool
when it comes to exams.
In exams even when you have to deal with a great deal of words, take a
blank space and create headings which will help you to proceed in the exam
without wasting time to recollect yourself after every passage of time.
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Tip 4: Flashcards
Using Flashcards is a particularly
effective method of learning when trying to assimilate
different facts, dates, formulas or vocabulary. Subjects such as
History, Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Geography or any language are made much
easier if you incorporate Flashcards in to your study.
Using Flashcards for memorizing can become a fun process unlike a lot of
other study tools. On top of this, online Flashcards allow you to save a lot of
work and time in actually creating your Flashcard decks. What’s more is
that they are always readily available online so you have access to them 24/7.
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Tip 5: Case Studies
Sometimes it can be difficult to grasp the implications of some
theories. This is where studying case studies can be a big help. Case studies can help you visualize a theory and place it in a more familiar and
realistic context which can be helpful in catching the theories more
efficiently. This is also especially useful in business or law subjects.
It’s always of great benefit to examine practical cases studies to accompany your study of pure theory. In this way you can better understand the application of the theory and what its thesis actually states
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Tip 6: Quizzes
Quizzes are an excellent way to review study notes in the weeks and
days before an exam. Quizzes can show where your strengths and
weaknesses are, so it allows you to focus your efforts more precisely.
Moreover, if you share your Study Quiz with your classmates and test each other
as much as possible you can discover even more details and areas you may have
overlooked. So before any exam, make sure you create and share a bunch of
different Quizzes with your Friends
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Tip 7: Brainstorming
This
is another study technique that is ideal for studying with friends and/or classmates. Brainstorming is a great way
to expand every possible idea out of any topic. Just get a bunch of friends
together and shoot the breeze, there are no wrong answers when brainstorming –
just talk and capture the ideas , you can review afterward.
Some ideas that sounded great before will be ruled out straight away
afterwards while others that sounded crazy before will be seen to have great
promise. Using Mind Maps is an ideal way of
capturing all this info as it mirrors the explosive nature of your thought
processes.
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Tip 8: Mnemonic Rules
Mnemonics are especially useful
when memorizing lists and sets. Mnemonics rules basically work by associating certain concepts with
other concepts that are more familiar to us. There are many different ways to make
mnemonics and these can be individual to the person.
A
classic example is ‘Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain’. This Mnemonic rule is
for remember the primary colors : Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
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Tip 9: Organizing Your Study
One of the most effective study skills is also one of the most often overlooked; this is organizing your study. Creating a study timetable gives you goals and a time in which to achieve them. Having a study timetable as you study is greatly motivational. Exam Time has a free Study Planner tool which makes organizing your study extremely easy.
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Tip 10: Drawing
Many people find it
easier to recall images rather
than text, that is why they are better able to memorize concepts if they
associate them with pictures or drawings. That is why Exam Time's tools
allow you to add images. Exam Time's tools are geared towards helping different types of
learners as visual learning is often overlooked in classrooms, which are more
text or aural based.
Many of these study tips & techniques are not new but are well known
to students. However, what is new is the way in which you can now utilize them . Today new technologies have changed how
we can interact with these study techniques. So it makes
sense to reassess how you use these techniques and see what new tools and
techniques you can incorporate into your study.
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