Back to Shcool Supplies
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In the US, most school districts (but not all) have a long summer break. The dates can vary, but many schools let out for summer sometime in June. Then they start back up around the end of August or beginning of September. Many families buy new school supplies and school clothes for the new school year. This is why you’ll see so many “back to school” sales in the stores, starting in late July. “Back to school” can also mean resuming or furthering one’s education. For example, someone who had dropped out of college might decide later to go back to school to finish their degree. You can also go back to school to get an advanced degree.
How to learn efficiently
Back-to-school season is quickly approaching, which means it’s time for a fresh start, a blank slate for you to write your new future and redefine who you are. Before we officially going to study at school, Have you ever thought about how to cut in half the time you are currently spending studying or how to make that time more efficient? Here are some tips will be provided in this article, I hope it helps.
Take good notes
If we gave it 110% during class, we would be cutting the time spent studying at home at about 70% percent. At the time I thought it was a good way to motivate us to participate and take good notes. After graduating from school you will find that it is true. The amount and quality of the information you retain during class are the foundation of the work you will have to endure later at home. The better you understand the subject during the class it is being lectured, the less you will have to reread and study your textbooks over and over again at home.
Plan study sessions & break down topics into chapters
This will allow you to have a complete overview of how much time you will be spending until the end of the semester. It will create a feeling of responsibility towards the amount of material you need to cover during the week, according to your schedule, you will be able to master your class if you just follow your self-appointed schedule. By complying with your schedule, you can use all of the remaining time in your calendar to do things you enjoy, without feeling worried about you are not making enough time for studying. So making a list of ground rules for the school year. If you set them ahead of time, you’ll be more likely to stick to them.
Reviewing lessons
Rereading notes can be a wonderful thing if you don’t mind spending your time at home, every single day, going through each concept that you have learned. However, the amount of time you are spending rereading these notes is also taking away valuable time spent preparing lectures, solving exercises or creating effective study materials. If you don’t have the flexibility to produce a good batch of notes while you are in class, then try mind mapping instead. This exercise will transform your materials by creating visual connections between concepts and notions. It also allows you to summarize information that you’ve learned in previous classes, by relating those concepts to the concepts you are learning today. Instead of focusing hard on learning or memorizing pure theory.
Ensure sufficient rest
As fun as it seems to scroll through Facebook at all hours of the night, you’re going to regret it the next morning. Start your year off feeling rested and ready to conquer everything thanks to good night sleep. Besides, Stress is an inevitable part of the school. But you can make it more manageable by finding some stress-relieving activities you enjoy, or any sports you like to play.
Set a timer & go through mock exams
Trying to understand the type of information your professor would find valuable for you to insert in your answer, this will allow you to come up with a solid structure for all future answers, where you can provide for a core theory, examples and even secondary information that your professor may find interesting. You can then write these step-by-step guides in flashcards. Instead of memorizing sentences and strict concepts, allow yourself to create a solid structure that you can practice at home and then remember instantly during a midterm or a final exam.
Multitasking is not smart
For instance, if you have 2 hours to tackle 2 tasks, focusing on one task at a time, it will force you to divide your two hours into 1-hour blocks of really focused work. This will allow you to achieve a better result. Multitasking will throw you into this loop of shifting your brain main focus back and forth between two different ideas or assignments. Although you might complete them at the same time, granting you a false sense of achievement of having been able to tackle two things at once, you will probably find out that instead of taking 2 hours, you spent one more just trying to balance the two tasks you had to complete. I truly believe this is one of the most common misconceptions and something that harms students more than it helps them.
Studying out loud
This method can take more time than reading and can be hard to implement if you live with a roommate and hate to be speaking in front of a wall for hours, However, if you can get past this obstacle, pretending you are explaining the material you have to learn to a room full of people. It will automatically create a flowing structure in your head, forcing you to simplify information to explain it to someone else without knowledge on the subject. While you are explaining a chapter to an invisible audience, you start making connections between concepts that you haven’t done before. In general, it starts to make more sense. Surprisingly, you will remember this mock presentation for days and even weeks and as long as you use a good outline to prepare them, you can always revisit the key points of your speech and practice before your exams.
Reference
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