One of the major barriers to success encountered by young
people is a lack of effective technique for study and exam preparation. This
crucial skill however, equips one with life success.
The truth is that when you study right, take personal responsibility for learning, you learn to study smarter and not waste your effort. In studying and mapping out strategy to use, you do not need to compare yourself with others as individuals differ. While some are visual learners (must see before they understand), auditory learners (must hear before they understand) others are kinesthetic (must do or write before they understand).
Hence, you know yourself and what is best for you. However, these general techniques will fit most people.
The truth is that when you study right, take personal responsibility for learning, you learn to study smarter and not waste your effort. In studying and mapping out strategy to use, you do not need to compare yourself with others as individuals differ. While some are visual learners (must see before they understand), auditory learners (must hear before they understand) others are kinesthetic (must do or write before they understand).
Hence, you know yourself and what is best for you. However, these general techniques will fit most people.
Set aside a certain hour each day for study. Ensure you keep
to your schedule daily. You know yourself and how many hours you think will be
sufficient for you to effectively study each subject. However, averagely, about
two hours daily for each study portion or per-subject is recommended. Don’t
forget to take a break as rest is as important as the study. This is especially
so, before any test or examination.
FIND AN ACCEPTABLE PLACE
Ensure you get a place that you will be less distracted and
always try to maintain same place, same time each day. Have a mindset that
quickly gets you into study mood and keep to it. This rapidly increases your
concentration.
GET THE NEEDED MATERIALS
Equip your study area with the needed materials such as your
pencils, pens, erasers, paper, calculating machines, etc. Keep away things and
friends that might distract you.
BE SELF MOTIVATIONAL
Get used to self motivation so as you will be able to
comprehend and learn as-well. You do not need anybody inspiring you to learn. Train
yourself to always get your assignments done, prepare for tests and
examinations by reviewing your work. Remember it is your life, your goal, your
future and you wouldn’t want to waste it, would you?
HAVE A GOOD WRITING MATERIALS
Ensure you have a good note. When you are orderly, your
examination grades will certainly improve. Have your notes up to date, write
down important assignments and dates for tests. Have all your information
together. Keep very well where you have written important points. Keep them
where you can easily reach them. With a well kept note, you are on your way to
success. In your note, have keywords and main points written or underline or
perhaps with a bolded writing format and handy for revision.
Use pictures, flash cards etc as a reminder. The use of
flash cards acts as good reminders when studying. Jot down vital key points and
go through as many times as possible. This will increase your memory. They will
also increase your study skills. However start with the general concepts first,
ensure you understand the main ideas and then later the key points too.
GET A PARTNER
Get a partner who is perhaps serious and reads a lot too. For
each topic; read and prepare for tests for yourselves, write out questions from
the topics you have read, answer them, do your corrections, rewrite the test
and ensure mastery as you move on. Ensure you understand what you are doing, do
not just cram the topic.
USE ACRONYMS
They must be ones that you are familiar with and will
remember. Like BODMAS in mathematics which tells you the first operations to
carry out like: remove brackets of divisions, attend to multiplications,
addition before attempting subtraction or you can create sentences. The watchword
however is that you remember them. You might even use a song to remember the
sequence of important points and what they are stressing. As you study your
text-books, underline keywords main-points. Making and reviewing of your note
is a time saver and not a waste of time.
NEVER RELENT
Sometimes we feel we have read or learnt enough and so
divert our energy to something else. However, you must not stop studying until
examinations are written as you can never learn enough if possible. There is
the theory of over-learning which simply means continue to learn. Try creating,
writing, reading, touching, hearing and saying your key points until the
examination day. Remember also to take a break, rest, take timeout, sing, play
and eat if possible. For all work and no play makes John a dull boy.
REVIEW YOUR MATERIAL
Always review your material as often as possible to avoid
forgetting the whole thing. When you do this often, chances is that you
remember longer. It equally reduces anxiety as you remember as much as 80% to
85% of the material studied.
Finally, the truth remains that having done all the reading
about the right study techniques, you then actually must sit down, bend down
and do the required reading for good grades. By so doing, you will not give
even the worst of the termites of chance.
Having read this particular article or content, we would
want you to apply these tips and techniques in your readings henceforth and see
the plethora growth of your reading and its success therein. Thanks.
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