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Tips Essential For Studying Smart Part 1

This document provides 5 tips for studying smart: 1. Study the most important facts first and relate new information to what you already know to maximize retention. Skip over less important words. 2. Use a highlighter to mark the most important points so they are easy to review later. You can also write notes in the margins. 3. Condense information by breaking it into smaller segments to absorb rather than trying to memorize too much at once. 4. Involve all your senses like sight, sound, and touch when learning to more vividly remember the information. 5. Focus on your studying and avoid distractions both external like phones or people, and internal worries to

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Tips Essential For Studying Smart Part 1

This document provides 5 tips for studying smart: 1. Study the most important facts first and relate new information to what you already know to maximize retention. Skip over less important words. 2. Use a highlighter to mark the most important points so they are easy to review later. You can also write notes in the margins. 3. Condense information by breaking it into smaller segments to absorb rather than trying to memorize too much at once. 4. Involve all your senses like sight, sound, and touch when learning to more vividly remember the information. 5. Focus on your studying and avoid distractions both external like phones or people, and internal worries to

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T IPS E SSENTIAL FOR S TUDYING

S MART (P ART 1)
1. Study t he most important facts first.
Don't just read the materials from beginning to the end. Dwell
on each new fact as you come to it. Relate the new information
to what you already know. This way, you are assured of
maximum retention. Be alert to key words in the sentences.
Read more efficiently by quickly moving past conjunctions
(e.g., and), prepositions (e.g., as), and articles (e.g., a). This
way, you dwell more on the essentials and sift out the
inconsequential, thus saving your time and effort for other
activities.

2. Use a highlighter!
Highlight the most important points in the body of the text, so
that you can spot them more easily when you review the
material. You can even make notes in pencil in the margin in
your own words to summarize or comment on those
important points. Later you can slip back and read just these
portions in order to quickly review the material
you have learned while it is still fresh in your
memory, and make the main points sink in. More
so, you can review those most important ideas just before a
test, when your time is critically limited. Review periodically
in this manner to keep the main points of what you have
already learned fresh in your mind if you need to remember a
large amount of material for a longer period e.g. for a final
examination, or for an interview.
3. Condense i nformati on.
Summarize and solidify ideas. Trying to absorb too much
information does not work well for effective learning.
Whenever you have to study a lot of information, your goal
should be to compress it. Break up large groups of
information into smaller segments. Instead of trying to
memorize twenty concepts, work on remembering four or five
at a time.

4. Involve all of your senses in learning .


Using as many senses as possible to help you remember
information will make it easier to recall later. Studies show
that information is more vividly remembered when it arouses
emotions. To make a bland idea or concept more concrete,
connect your feelings and senses to it. You most likely counted
on your fingers when learning numbers. Why can’t you do the
same when you are learning now?

5. Focus.
Distractions can impede your reading. Distractions can be
external such as phones buzzing, friends whispering nearby,
passers-by, or internal such as worrying about money or
mulling over the cool guy who you have to meet later in the
day. The place where you study should be relatively quiet
(traffic outside your window and quiet library conversations
are fine, but interrupting siblings and music blasting in the
next room are not). When you read, give it 100% of yourself.
The above nuggets are extracted from the book: The
Firstclass You. For more, you can download the book
at:
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