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5 Research-Backed Studying Techniques: What Works and What Doesn't!  Too often people imagine that long hours of studying are the best path to being a model, straight-A student. Yet research shows that highly successful students actually spend less time studying than their peers do—they just study more effectively. Highly successful students have generally learned to avoid multitasking. Instead of spending a lot of time doing low-intensity work with numerous distractions, these students work for shorter periods at higher intensity, without any distractions from WhatsApp, social media, etc. Their studying is more effective and leads to greater achievement gains. INEFFECTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES! Many students use learning techniques that are time consuming and give the illusion of mastery. They become familiar with ideas and information in preparation for a test, but forget it a week later because their learning techniques never led to long-term learning. Ineffective techni...

9 Practices/ Habits to make the Best Use of your Study Time!  Study isn't just for the night before an assignment's due or the night before an exam. It's never too early – or too late – to develop good study habits. The sooner you get into a good study groove, the easier everything will be and the more your chances of getting good marks will improve. Here are my top tips for getting the most out of study.  1. Pick a place and time Everyone has their own idea about the best place and time to study. Whether it's your bedroom at night or the library after school, find a study space and a regular study time that works for you and stick with it. Set up your study space – Your study space should be quiet, comfortable and distraction-free. It should make you feel happy and inspired. Decorate it with your favourite pictures or objects. If you want to listen to music or burn incense, pick a space that lets you do that. Find your best time – Some people work better in the mornin...

Study smarter, not harder: Top 10 study tips Better results mean more choice and opportunity. So pick up a few new study tips, and prove your outstanding ability in your assignments and exams! 1. Don’t miss a class ‘A’ students never miss a class. They also never miss the beginning or end of a class, because important announcements about exams and projects are often made then. Make notes on the lectures properly so that you can peruse them later on to make your learning of subjects easier later on. For tips on how to take notes properly, refer to this link after reading the current article:  https://the-best-ways-to-take-notes 2. Review your notes quickly and often After a lecture or class, read through your notes quickly again. It helps store the information in your long-term memory. 3. Organise your notes visually It helps to re-write the key points of a class or subject as a diagram – try using a mind-map or flow chart, or colour coding key elements of the topic. Then you can gi...

What Separates the Top 1% of Students and What You can Learn from Them Picture this. You’re in college. You’ve been working hard, putting in the hours, and studying until your eyes fall out – and yet, you’re still getting average marks on all your exams. Meanwhile, Einstein over there is getting near-perfect scores. How is he doing it? Does he have some sort of X factor that you don’t? Or maybe he was just born smart. Not quite, and here’s why. A common misconception is that to be a top student, you must be inherently smart. While intelligence does help, most people have the potential to become top students – it’s just a matter of applying themselves in the right ways. Here’s what separates the top students from the rest of the pack, and what you can do to become a top student yourself. 1 | Ability to Reflect and Adapt First, top students are able to reflect and adapt their approach to studying depending on the class or type of material they’re learning. We’ve all heard the saying, “th...

Why You’re Not a Straight-A Student (& How to Become One) Getting straight-A’s in school can feel like an impossible task, but most students make it harder than it needs to be. If you’re not getting the grades that you want, the problem isn’t always time or effort. Instead, it is often your strategies and your approach to studying that are failing you. Here are 5 reasons why you’re not getting straight A’s and what you should do instead. - You’re Approaching Studying Wrong - You’re Not Optimizing for Memory Consolidation - Your Critical Thinking is Underdeveloped - You’re Not Studying at the Optimal Time - You’ve Taken on an Identity   1 | You’re Approaching Studying Wrong The first reason is that you’re approaching studying the wrong way. Students often look at studying as a numbers game. They believe that the more hours they put into preparing for an exam, the better their grade will be. Although there is certainly some truth to this, it doesn’t tell the full story. If you on...

The Feynman Technique Helps You Study Faster and Retain More Information!  Click here for a fun animated explanation of this super useful technique:  You can read something and hope that it’ll all be beamed into your brain for future application. Or you can read it and write down what you just learned, as if you were teaching someone else, and actually retain it. This is called the Feynman Technique. In other words, implement a more “active” way of learning, which obviously takes a lot more work than it sounds. Ideally, when you write down your learnings, you’d also repeat what you wrote aloud, like a teacher instructing a class. With this method, you discover all the areas that need improvement and can go back to focus on those weak points. Repeat this until you can explain the topic or idea in full and simple details. “Once you can explain an idea in simple language, you have deeply understood it, and will remember it for a long time,” the video explains. We’re aware this is...

Learning from a Textbook: The SQ3R Method SQ3R is an acronym for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review and is an excellent way to get kids actively looking for information before and during the reading of a passage. SQ3R Step 1: Survey Before reading,  have your child take a few minutes to skim through (or  survey ) the passage, focusing attention on the titles, headings, and subheadings of the assigned passage. Take a quick look at the entire assigned reading. Skim the title, headings, and subheadings. If your reading includes them, look through the summaries and review questions at the end of each section. Note graphics, italics, boldface type and other devices the author uses to highlight important information. Based on this quick survey, make predictions about what you think the author is going to say. Write these predictions down. The purpose of this survey is to give your child a good idea of what the passage is going to be about. SQ3R Step 2: Question Based on the...

"Study Less, Study Smart": The Best Ways to Retain More in Less Time Here are some of the best tips: Study in chunked sessions:  Your ability to retain information diminishes after about 25-30 minutes, so break it up into multiple, smaller sessions. Reward yourself with fun activities during your breaks(not exceeding 10 minutes). Have a dedicated study area:  Don't study where you do  anything  else. Don't study in your bed, where you play games (even if it's your computer), or in front of the TV. Know the difference between recognition and recollection:  Recognition requires a trigger for you to remember something and you may not get that on a test. Study actively with focus on recollection . Quiz yourself and don't just glance over highlighted notes. Take good notes:  Find a note-taking method that works for you and expand on them  after  your class lecture to increase retention and understanding. Click here for learning how to take no...