The Power of Study Groups

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Part 4

Getting the most out of session

Here are some tips to help your group get the most out of each study session:

·      Decide what you’re going to do in advance.

·      Prepare for the session, so you can make them most of your time together.

·      Take turns teaching, to reinforce your own knowledge

·      Stick to the session topic:

By supplementing your individual study with a study group, you can reinforce what you’ve learned, deepen your understanding of complex concepts, and maybe even make a few new friends. Remember that a friend is a person who encourages you to do your best and achieve on a high level, one who pushes you to try a little harder and be a little better. If someone pulls you down the wrong trails of life, then those people are not friends, (they are actually your enemies), and you must avoid them at all cost. Whoever said learning can’t be fun? Learning is enjoyable and exciting when you study with others.

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 How to Take on College Studying

Part 2

Choose where to study.

Where you should study depends on two factors: the environment in which you are best able to concentrate and the type of work you are trying to do.

·      The best places to study have god light, a comfortable temperature and enough desk place – usually your dorm room, your apartment or the library.

·      For completing problem sets or brainstorming possible test questions, you may want to study with a group or at least in a setting where fellow students are available for discussion.

·      When you are reading book chapters or working on a research paper, you are probably better off in  less social environment.

Improve your Study Habits

Here are some simple steps which you can take to help you get a handle on studying.

·      Have a routine for when and where you study.

·      Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for each session.

·      Do things that are harder or require more intense thought at your most productive time of the day.

·      Take breaks if you need them so you don’t waste time looking at material but not absorbing it.

·      Get to know students whom you respect and can study with or contact to ask questions.

·      Keep up with the workload and seek help when you need it.

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Successful Students

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9.. . Don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective that cram sessions, and they practice it.

      If there is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than messed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, an earn a higher grade by studying in four, one-hour-a-night sessions for Friday’s exam studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day.

It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planning a watermelon seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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