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How To Make Studying Pay Off
By Amanda Rogers
Star-Telegram
Staff Writer
For students, learning how to study is as important as learning
what they're studying.
"We don't
teach our kids how to write and how to learn," says Bernie
Gaidosch, a college professor and author of The Professor's
Secrets: Breaking the Silence.
Gaidosch, who teaches
writing and study skills at George Brown College in Toronto,
offers these tips to help improve study habits:
• Take notes
from your notes. At the end of a lecture, go home and condense
your notes into four or five points and put each one on a
separate index card. When you study for the test, you'll have
the main points instead of 40 pages of jumbled notes.
• Recycle
your efforts. After a spot quiz, check to make sure your answers
are right, then correct the ones you got wrong. File the test
with your index study cards. Chances are the questions from
the quiz will be on the big test later.
• Use the
15-minute rule. If you really hate to study, set an egg timer
for 15 minutes, then start studying. After the egg timer goes
off, hopefully you'll be so engrossed that you'll keep studying,
but even if you stop after 15 minutes, you learned something.
Do this every night.
• Know the
definitions of test terms. Know the difference between compare
and contrast. (Compare means how are things alike; contrast
means how are things different).
For more information
on Gaidosch's book, call (877) 439-3999 or go online to www.profsecrets.com.
Gaidosch’s
workbooks are available by calling toll free (877) 439-3999
or through his Web site at www.profsecrets.com.
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