How to Study

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HOW TO STUDY SEVENTH EDITION Ron Fry Course Technology PTR A part of Cengage Learning Australia, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Mexico, S ...

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Introduction...................................... .xi Chapter 1: How to Start Out Right. Chapter 2: How to Organize Your Study ...

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“What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.” —Henry Adams L earning how to study is ...

Here’s Where to Start “Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as if you would be in fear of losing it.” — ...

Chapter 2 also introduces some of the “intangibles” in the study equation: your home environment, attitude, motivation, and so f ...

Go to the Head of the Class In Chapter 5 I talk about the one experience we all have in common, no matter how old we are: the cl ...

How to “Ace” Any Test Chapter 8 covers the dos and don’ts of test preparation, including the differences between studying for we ...

If your grades are average to good, you will see a definite improve- ment. If you are on the borderline of the pass/fail range, ...

If You’re a High School Student You should be particularly comfortable with the format of the book— its relatively short sentenc ...

If You’re the Parent of a Student of Any Age Your child’s school is probably doing little, if anything, to teach him or her how ...

Supervise their work,but don’t fall into the trap of doing their homework. Checking (i.e., proofreading) a paper, for example, ...

The Importance of Your Involvement Don’t for a minute underestimate the importance of yourcommitment to your child’s success. Yo ...

Having said that, I see little reason to waste your time detailing what should be obvious: Anything—including studying—is more d ...

It’s really that simple. Since you have to go to school anyway, why not decide that you might as well be active and learn as muc ...

There are very few “rights” and “wrongs” out there in the study world. There’s certainly no single “right” way to attack a multi ...

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“It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we understand what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unl ...