Study Smarter, Not Harder

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Study Smarter, Not Harder
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Preparing to Study....Be Nice to Your Brain

• Sit in a QUIET place. TV and radio distracts
  your brain.
• Dont procrastinate. It puts your brain under
  stress.
• Dont study after you normally go to bed. Your
  brain wants to sleep at that time.

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Preparing to Study....Be Nice to Your Brain

• Take breaks. Your brain gets tired too.
• Set reasonable goals and reward yourself-Im
  going to study for 20 minutes then take a snack
  break.

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What Kind of Learner Are You?

• Auditory Learners Learn by hearing
• Use a study group
• Study out loud
• Pay close
• attention to lectures

http//www.studytechniques.org/learning-styles-aud
itory.html
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What Kind of Learner Are You?

• Tactile Learners Learn by touching or using
• Use practice questions
• Pay close attention to lab

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http//www.studytechniques.org/learning-styles-tac
tile.html
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What Kind of Learner Are You?

• Visual Learners Learn by seeing
• Use flashcards
• Review diagrams from the textbook
• Pay close attention to class notes

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http//www.studytechniques.org/learning-styles-vis
ual.html
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Study Method 1 Repetition

• Review your notes the same day you get them.
  Thats when your brain remembers the best!
• Then review your notes daily. Give your brain the
  chance to repeatedly see the information.

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Study Method 2 Writing

• Rewrite your notes
• Type your notes
• Or do both!

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Study Method 3 Condensing

• Day 1 Write out everything you need to know.
  Youll have several pages.
• Day 2 Condense this information into half the
  number of pages. Take out extra words not needed,
  not important details.
• Day 3 Condense this information into one page
  divided into four sections.

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dy-for-exams/
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Study Method 4 Talking to Yourself

• Say or sing your notes out loud
• Read only 1 sentence of the notes at a time
• Cover the sentence up and say it several times.
• Check your notes to make sure that you got the
  sentence right
• This words great for diagrams too!
• Cover up the labels and try to guess them
  correctly.

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Study Method 5 Flashcards

• While studying flashcards, make 3 piles
• What I know
• What I dont know
• What I guessed right
• Focus your studying on the What I dont know
  and What I guessed right piles

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Study Method 6 Mind Mapping

• Rewrite your notes using only key words and
  images

Example
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Study Method 7 Study Buddy

• Use a study buddy
• Have a friend ask you questions about your notes.
  
• Answer their questions without looking at your
  notes.
• If you get a question wrong, ask your study buddy
  to tell you the right answer. Make a list of the
  questions you get wrong.
• After the last question, have your study buddy
  ask you the questions you got wrong again.

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Study Method 8 Mnemonics

• Catchy words or phrases
• SPONCH
• sulfur, phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon,
  hydrogen the 6 most common elements in
  biology
• King Philip came over for good spaghetti
• Kingdom Phylum Class Order
  Family Genus Species

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Study Method 8 Mnemonics

• Visualizing
• Fondant is a sweet, smooth, elastic icing. If
  its freezing you need a blanket. Fondant looks
  like a smooth blanket over a cake or cupcake.
• Buttercream is a light, creamy frosting.
  Buttercream is creamy!

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Study Method 8 Mnemonics

• Chunking
• Abraham Lincoln was shot on
  April 14, 1865 by
  John Wilkes Booth
• Abraham April
• Abraham Lincoln has 14 letters 14
• He was a president and you can vote for president
  when you turn 18 18
• Lincoln is a type of car that can by found on the
  highway going 65mph 65

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Study Method 8 Mnemonics

• Story Method
• Counties in Southern England Avon, Dorset,
  Somerset, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Devon,
  Gloucestershire, Hampshire, and Surrey.
• An AVON lady is walking towards a strange house.
  She is hot and sweating in the SUMMER (Somerset)
  heat. Outside the house, there is giant CORN
  (Cornwall) growing, but it's beginning to WILT
  (Wiltshire) in the heat. She knocks on the DOOR
  (Dorset), which is opened by the DEVIL(Devon). He
  is smearing honey on a HAM (Hampshire), making in
  GLOSSY (Gloucestershire) in the bright sunlight.
  The Avon lady panics, screams 'SORRY' (Surrey),
  and runs back down the path.

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Study Method 8 Mnemonics

• Journey Method
• Shopping list Coffee, lettuce, cauliflower,
  French bread, chicken, pork chops, bath tub
  cleaner
• Front door spilt coffee grains on the doormat
• Rose bush in front garden growing letuuce around
  the roses
• Car with cauliflower on the driver's seat
• End of the road an arch of French bread over the
  road
• Traffic lights chickens squawking and flapping
  on top of lights
• Past church in front of which a pig is karate
  chopping wooden boards
• Supermarket parking lot a filthy bath tub is
  parked in the space next to my car!

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