Study skills

Going to college had been a goal of mine for as long as I can remember. Coming in I expected many things from longs lectures, ridiculous amounts of homework, excessive essays and huge classes, but to my surprise the whole atmosphere is very similar to high school. As a result, the transition has been very smooth so far. How have I been able to make these adjustments you say? Well let’s find out! For starters, a big part of my success has come from my SLS class. The techniques I’ve learned so far…

College Success Skills #2 At the beginning of this semester, my main goal was to work on my habit of procrastination. I wanted to manage my time better with the use of a planner and make myself sit down and do my homework or study ahead of time so that I wouldn’t be as stressed out and could have time to have fun with friends without worrying about an assignment or test. At first I was doing an okay job, but soon I found myself falling back into my old habits. For the first few weeks of…

grammar user. If I am struggling with my writing, I can get help with some good ideas. Third, I will work on grammar in Connect, an online program. Fourth, I will continue to creating a study cards because these are the best way of learning words. Finally, I am planning to work on quizlet.com. Practice tests and study tools on that website offer me more help on words…

Homework has been in school curriculum for generations, but some results show that it does little to boost academic achievement. Many people feel that the amount of homework schools are giving is too much, teachers and assigning more homework than the recommended amount causing side effects. Excessive homework for students is a recent and important issue that needs to be dealt with. Schools all around the world have started moving toward a less fearful, insecure, and unhappy environment by not…

Over the past month I have been learning about way to better myself academically and ways to successfully transfer into the college of my choice. What I have came to realize is that I may not be as prepared for college as I had thought. After we took the learning styles assessment, I was surprised to find out that I am a very organized person. My two main learning styles were: solitary and logical. Both of those learning styles tell me that I am organized and like things neat and clean. This…

faster in whites. There doesn’t seem to be a true understanding of the discrepancy in the research. The participants in the research were derived from three longitudinal cohort studies located in Chicago. Those studies were the Minority Aging Research Study, the Rush Memory and Aging Project and the Religious Orders Study. The Minority aging group was older blacks, the Rush Memory group were older whites and the Religious Orders was a mixed group with 7% being black. The participants were…

Some just take the middle ground in between. This article will answer this question to see if homework is really needed or if it’s just a waste of time. So, is homework really important? Most teachers say that homework is important to reinforce skills that the students have learned and it helps them remember it. This is true in most cases. If teachers give out too much homework then students can become overwhelmed and burned out and get exhausted and don’t tend to remember it. Sometimes this…

repeated study a student can read a chapter four or five times without going through the crucial stage of recall, which forces neurons into action so that they might retrieve needed information. Retrieval study in the other hand goes through the stage of recall each time it is implemented, activating neuron networks so that they might become further reinforced and retrieve data more accurately and efficiently. Retrieval learning identifies gaps in conceptualization. In retrieval study…

best year when it came to studying I felt more comfortable with my study routine. Studying is something you don 't inherit it takes the time to develop a good study habit that works for you. The motivation to study is your decision you can’t force someone to do it. It depends on what you plan on gaining from studying and do you have a goal. The goal is to get good grades. Have you ever wondered why people who don’t study seem to pass the test with no problems? Well, I wasn’t one of…

I will learn new materials step by step or randomly. Sometimes I will read through the chapter from the beginning till the end to study. It works for me because I can read every detail in the book and have an all-round understanding. However, sometimes I will read the chapter randomly. I used these two methods in the past. According to the suggestions from Felder and Soloman, sequential…