Study Less Study Smart by College Info Geek
Take control of your study habits by implementing these strategies!
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Take control of your study habits by implementing these strategies!
Studying, note taking, and test taking are basic student skills. Though there may be several methods to study or to take notes for you, the student, to choose from, those methods are ineffective if they are not contributing to long-term retention of information and deeper understanding of concepts.
These 6 short videos will be "aha!" moments that will help you understand what needs to happen during your study time, how to make your studying most effective, and how to effectively prepare for a test in a way that will also reduce your anxiety!
http://maclife.mcmaster.ca/academicskills/online_resources.cfm
Discover what behaviors you use to promote learning and which ones you may not use enough.
This site focuses on word choice and how you can get what you need out of lecture or texts.
http://sarc.sdes.ucf.edu/docs/learning_skills/notetaking/reading_and_listening_clues.pdf
Our brains work, in many ways, like a muscle. If we want to improve our memory, we must learn to exercise the brain. This site provides simple exercises that stimulate the brain and increase memory.