How to Study

Try imagining a day in yourlife 5 or 10 years from now. If you can’t, no wonderyou’re having a hard time motivating yourself to ...

Change your goal pyramid as you progress through school. You may eventually decide on a different career. Or your mid-range goal ...

■ Monitor your achievements and keep resetting your goals. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly—ask yourself how you’ve done and where ...

Make this rule become an automatic part of your thought process and your actions. It will help you understand the often small di ...

Take Advantage of “In-between” Time You can be even more productive by identifying the little windows of opportunity that open e ...

What does all this have to do with you? Nothing, unless you find yourself spending two hours polishing what is already an A+ pap ...

My Ideal Study Environment How I receive information best: 1.❏ Orally ❏ Visually In the classroom, I should: 2.❏ Concentrate on ...

Chapter 2 ■ How to Organize Your Studying 29 How I study best: 8.❏ Alone ❏ With a friend ❏ In a group 9.❏ Under time pressure ❏ ...

2.This should tie in with your answer to (1). The more “aural” you are, the more you should concentrate on listening. The more “ ...

8.Most of us grow up automatically studying alone. If we study with a friend, there’s often more talking, TV watching, anything ...

12.There’s nothing particularly wrong with taking a break when- ever you feel you need to keep yourself sharp and maximize your ...

Alternatively, everybody can be responsible for his or her own notes, but the group could act as an ad hoc discussion group, ref ...

■ My suggestion is to assign each class to one student. Each student must master his or her assigned class, completing any suppl ...

■ At home. Remember that this is the place where distractions are most likely to occur. No one tends to telephone you at the lib ...

Just as you (hopefully) sit right down and go to work when you enter a classroom (presuming the teacher is in the room!), your a ...

■ Consider the complexity of the assignment when you allocate time. The tasks themselves may have a great effect on your schedul ...

Evaluate Your Study Area Whatever location you choose as your study base, how you set up your study area can affect your ability ...

Staying Focused on Your Studies If you find yourself doodling and dawdling more than reading and remembering, try these solution ...

Fighting Tiredness and Boredom You’ve chosen the best study spot, and no one could fault you on its setup. So why are you still ...

■ Make the kids part of your study routine. Kids love routine, so why not include them in yours? If 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. is always “ ...