Principles to Study Skills. Increase the Effectiveness of your Study Time

Stop banging your head against the wall…….

Stop banging your head against the wall using old and dated strategies that hardly ever work. Because it’s not just about working harder. It’s about working SMARTER.

This course is designed to help you develop effective study skills. It is not a magic formula for success. Studying any material requires work! However, by using the techniques described in this course, and by applying yourself, you can gain a valuable edge in understanding material, preparing for tests, and, ultimately, learning. This course contains some of the best and most effective techniques of successful students

Effective study skills must be practiced in order for you to improve. It is not enough to simply “think about” studying; you have to actually do it, and in the process use information from what you do to get better.

Topics

Study Skills the “must knows”

• Getting Started with Study Skills
• Understanding the Forgetting Curve
• Get it Out … The secret to effective study
• Shuffling
• Spaced Retrieval
• Study Environment
• Study Blocks
• Study Time Planning
• Exam Planning