The Power of Study Groups

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Working Together help everyone

You may have noticed that when you’re explaining something you’ve learned to a friend, you begin to understand it better yourself. This happens because, when you explain an idea, you need to think more deeply about it.

·      Think out loud.

·      Share ideas

·      Learn from one another

In an effective study group, you and other students hash out lesson materials together – explaining concepts, arguing about them, figuring out why one person’s answer differs from another’s – and in the process, you most likely learn more than you would have studying by yourself.

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Successful Students

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10. Successful students are good time managers. Successful students do not procrastinate. They have learned that a time control is life control and have consciously chosen to be in control of their life.

An elemental truth: you will either control time or be controlled by it! It’s your choice: you can lead or be led, establish control or relinquish control, steer your own course or follow others. Failure to take control of their time is probably the no.  I study skills problem for college students. It ultimately causes many students to become non-students! Procrastinators are good excuse makers. Don’t make academics harder than it had to be. Stop procrastinating. And don’t wait until tomorrow to do it.

          The 10 items listed above are paraphrased from an article by Larry M Ludewig called Ten Commandments for Effective Study Skills which appear in The Teaching Professor, December, 1992.

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