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A Short Guide to Effective Studying – Education – Study Techniques
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High-school, college, and for some of us after college, we spend a great deal of the time of our lives in studying. Studying can either take the form of serious studying to pass institutional examinations, or it can also take the form of leisurely reading to increase the wealth of knowledge one stores in his psyche. Regardless of the purpose or form of studying that I discuss here, I stand for Effective Studying. Effective studying, according to my dictionary, is to be able to read blocks of educational texts, comprehend the information presented, analyze the information, develop your own hypothesis, and then finalize the learning process by writing it down. Of course, in many cases of academic reading, we don’t need to abide by the ostensibly complex learning process that I’ve mentioned here. In this article, I’ll focus on the very basics – which we often seem to forget! Here is the sequence of steps that I’ve followed all my life successfully:
* Critical reading: this refers to reading any block of text slowly and getting the bigger picture. Here, you ask meaningful questions about the information you’ve just read and then answer them all by yourself. If you can’t answer, just note it down and ask anyone who seems to be much more intelligent to you!
* Critical thinking: this goes hand in hand with critical reading. Instead of just reading through paragraphs and memorizing the group of words, it would be much more generative to actually grab the core meaning of the text.
* Critical listening: previous studies on education have proved that we memorize information easily if we actually hear the words. Our brains first store the information in our short-term memory. After continuous revising and writing, the information is transferred to our long-term memory. The reason why I call it Critical listening is because you only read aloud those sentences from the text given that give you a summary, or you read aloud some sentences that you have formed in your own mind while critically analyzing the information presented in the text.
* Writing and revising: writing is definitely a good habit! I once read in the Reader’s Digest about a highly-successful neurosurgeon whose mother worked as a maid in her community. Not knowing how to help her children grow up, she took her children to the nearest library and asked them to write down summary reports of each book they have read. This was the turning point in the life of the future surgeon, from being a mediocre student in an unknown family destined to die in poverty and humiliation, reading and writing gave him the inspiration to gather knowledge and gain a strong foothold to survive in society. Now, you should definitely remember that your learning process is not finished after writing down any summary. This is because when we write down anything, our brains automatically ignore any new information relating to the written down text. You should periodically revise the written text and try to memorize to make sure that you have actually grasped the idea.
This is the way to consume information and transfer them from your short-term memory to long-term memory. I hope you have a great day studying!
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Abel Mens has been internet marketing for nearly 8 years. Come visit his latest website
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