Sunday 16 April 2017

IELTS Reading Tips: True False Not Given

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Monday 10 April 2017

5 Study Habits You Should Be Practicing

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5 Study Habits You Should Be Practicing
Alexia Bullard

With exams, quizzes, essays, projects, and myriad deadlines for different things,
effective study habits are critical for keeping stress at bay during college.
Having these great study habits can make things easier and alleviate some of the stress looming overhead. If you are in need of a bit of an improvement, or just want to get some new ideas,
keep reading for the top five study habits that you should be practicing.

1. Make and use flashcards.
Flashcards are designed to promote active memory recall of information.
By using flashcards with a question or term on one side and the answer or definition on the other, you will force your brain to recall the necessary information.
Even if you struggle a bit with a card, you will still be actively reviewing the necessary material.
One of the other reasons why flashcards are effective is that they utilize spaced repetition learning techniques. Spaced repetition has been proven time and time again to be one of the most
effective ways of building up memory and increasing recall of information.
By studying the information again and again, at spaced intervals,
you will be able to recall the information faster and far more easily.

2. Revise, revise, revise!
Many students put off studying until just before the exam, with the more diligent students
giving themselves a week or two prior to a test. While this may sound effective
and like a good manner of planning, it’s actually an ineffective method of preparing and studying.
It’s best to revise the information a little bit every day,
so that you are not overwhelmed when a test (or pop quiz!) comes around.
One method of revising is to make a mind-map. This is a bit like a flowchart,
in that you start with one core concept in the center, and then branch off into connected sections.
This will help you to connect everything together and associate the terms with one another. When it comes time to take the exam, you will be better prepared and the key terms will jump out at you.
Read aloud to yourself and, as silly as it may seem, pretend you are teaching a student.
Read your notes aloud, pretend you are lecturing. Do this over and over,
until you no longer have to look at your notes. Once you have accomplished that, do it again.
Take one of the main concepts and turn it into a little story. Make sure you are able to explain this concept, no matter how complex it actually is, to someone who has never heard of it before.
For example, if you are studying the industrial revolution, write a story that is written in such a way that it would explain that concept and events to someone who has never heard of it before.
While this may sound silly and tedious, it’s an incredibly effective means of going over the information and looking at it in a new light. This, in turn, creates new associations and gives your brain a visual representation of the information, thereby making it easier to remember and recall.
Finally, come up with a keywords list. Take each of the main concepts for the subject
you are studying, and reduce it into a ONE-word sub-topic. Study this list and memorize it. Incorporate it into the above methods, especially when using your flashcards. When it comes time for the exam, write down your list of keywords the moment you have that test in front of you.
This will ensure you easily remember each topic and sub-topic,
as well as providing a frame of reference if you get a blank during the test.

3. Watch related lectures and videos.
One of the most effective—and the most fun—methods of studying is to watch related lectures
and videos in order to supplement the material. Watch documentaries or videos on YouTube
and educational websites. You may be surprised at how much you can learn from videos,
and just how much information is available online.
On a related note, you may also be able to download or stream podcasts that cover a large range
of topics. Depending on what you are studying, you may find this to be very useful and entertaining.

4. Create practice tests based off previous tests.
You should save all of the graded papers, quizzes, tests, assignments, and handouts
that your teacher hands back to you. This will not only show you how well you did, but it will
also highlight what you need to work on and where your strengths lie in that particular subject.
You will also be able to learn the format of the tests, the structure of the questions,
and whether or not to predict the inclusion of tricky True/False questions.
Use these graded tests to create a new practice test. Include the questions you got correct,
for some variety, but mainly focus on the questions you answered incorrectly. By focusing solely
on these parts of the required material, you will turn your weaknesses around and even out
the dents in your recall. Come test time, you will be far less stressed and feel more prepared.
                                                                                                                                                            
5. Re-write your notes.
Studies have shown that writing information out by hand increases your ability to recall the material. This makes the recall go hand-in-hand with muscle memory,
and you will be able to picture your written notes when you are taking the exam.
One of the best ways to do this is to prepare for each class far ahead of time. Before the lecture begins, stake out your spot and go back over the assigned reading, your notes from the last class, and any homework you completed the night before. Right before the lecture starts, scan through
the notes from the previous lecture as a means of gaining a sense of context that you will be able
to build the new material on. This way, you will be able to focus on the lecture in order to get the information you will not be able to just look up in the book later on after the class has ended.
When you take the notes, write the information in your words rather than just blindly writing down what the professor says. This will help you to better grasp and retain the information.
After class, re-write your notes in a more organized manner. This will help you to go over
the information, as well as to ensure you have a solid set of notes for studying later on.
As you go through the notes, summarize each section.
This will sum it all up in your own vernacular, and show that you truly do understand the concepts.
It will also show where any gaps in your understanding of the material may be.
Using outline formats with bullets, indentations, and numbering in order to make the hierarchical relationship between different points even more obvious will further solidify the information in your mind. Leaving space between the lines will also makes your notes easier to scan and study later on.
The Cornell method is also extremely effective, especially if you do the summary at the end
of the page. Fold your paper to have a large section on the right, and a smaller section on the left. On the right, jot down the pertinent information, points, or definitions during class.
On the left, write questions for the information on the right, as you would read on a test.
The left section is also the place for terms that are defined by the information on the right.
At the very bottom of each page, add a summary of the above information.
Later, when you go to study the notes, you can cover up the right column
and make your notes a great means of preparing for exams.

These are the five most effective study habits, and something all successful students do.
Make sure you are on top of your game by following these study methods!

http://www.lifehack.org/284599/5-study-habits-you-should-practicing

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I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Tuesday 4 April 2017

5 Bad Study Habits You’ve Probably Been Following

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5 Bad Study Habits You’ve Probably Been Following
Tom Miller

You hear a lot of platitudes when it comes to studying: “Make studying a priority.
Review your notes early and often.” “Read all the textbook chapters
and do your homework.” “Practice makes perfect. So practice as much as you can.”
First off, all the students who have ever been in a classroom just collectively rolled their eyes. Second, most of this stuff we hear, though well intentioned (maybe), is just plain wrong.
A lot of bad study habits are spread in the guise of helpful advice.
Here are 5 of the most common bad study habits that parents, teachers, and advisors teach,
and why they’re actually hurting your GPA:

1. Read the chapter before lecture
Here’s something we’ve all heard teachers say at the end of class: 
“Read chapter 12 on the Law of Cosines before class tomorrow so that we can jump right in.”
And you probably wanted to say, “Wait a sec… isn’t that your job?”
Anyway, no one does it (except maybe that guy who always sits in the front row). Even if we tell ourselves we’re gonna “get organized” and prepare before lecture, no one ever does the reading. And if you do, it’s usually a lackluster skim effort.
But would it actually help if we did?
Should we actually care about “getting organized” and doing the reading before class?
Research suggests that this is a waste. An initial review period is necessary to learn something new, but further review becomes less and less effective.
So why would you review something twice?
Well, because repetition improves your ability to recall something later. Practice makes perfect.
Not so fast. While it is useful to get a quick “lay of the land” on a new concept
before going into lecture completely cold, beyond an initial introductory period to a new concept, your ability to remember, recall, and use that information does not improve with review.
What you need instead is testing and use. So that valuable time before lecture is much better spent quizzing yourself on the information from the previous lecture. Stuff that you’ll eventually see
on the midterm or final, rather than some arcane explanation from a textbook.
Use the lecture the way it was intended: to introduce you to new material.

2. Get a study buddy
As you walk through your campus library, you see them everywhere: books scattered across tables, empty energy drink cans, and problems scribbled on pieces of paper or whiteboards.
Study groups.
Some people can’t stand to sit with other students for hours on end racking their brain
over chemical reactions or Freudian psychology, but others can’t get enough of it
and seem to find any excuse to meet up and “go over” the latest lecture notes.
So who’s got it right?
Studying with someone else can help you stay accountable, but that’s pretty much all it can do. 
Yes, knowing someone is waiting for you at 4pm at the library is motivation enough to get your butt out the door, and crack that notebook that otherwise would stay on the floor
in the corner of your dorm room. But doing practice problems with another person is the quickest way to fool yourself into thinking you can reproduce it yourself on an exam.
It’s one thing to watch someone solve a tough physics problem and nod along saying “oh yeah,
got it.” But it’s a completely different thing to actually reproduce that problem-solving method during crunch time, staring at a blank sheet of paper.
So definitely still make friends in your classes, and keep each other accountable.
But limit working on problem sets together to those couple of sticking points
you still have after working through everything yourself. Then go back a day or two later and make sure you truly understand it well enough to reproduce it yourself.

3. Review your notes after class
Passive review of your notes is not only time-consuming, it’s also been shown to be completely ineffective. And yet, this is what most teachers recommend. It’s what “good students” do.
But as with habit #1, this robotic type of study is not suited to the way the human memory system stores new information. Again, it’s far more effective to test yourself instead.
Try to re-create the key concepts or solve a few practice problems
without referring to your notes from class. Do this again a day or two later.
Studies have shown that this self-testing method is a much better use of your time than simply “refreshing” a dead page of text. The only time you should touch your notes is when you’re going
to try and re-organize and consolidate them into a more simple and compact form.

4. Find a quiet space and make it a daily habit
“Turn off the music! How can you concentrate with that on?”
“Stay still and be quiet. Just sit down and focus.”
Sound familiar?
This motherly advice is typically in response to multitasking teenagers who text, listen to music,
have Facebook open, and are Skyping with a classmate while doing their homework.
So yes, in that case they may have a point.
But the other extreme actually may be detrimental to future performance on exams.
Routinely studying in exactly the same quiet place is the best way to ensure that you can only recall that information reliably in that one spot. In essence, you’re training yourself to completely
blank on that information when test day comes, when you’re thrown into an anxious mental state, under time pressure and sitting in a foreign environment (unless you happen to have one of those chairs in your apartment with the desk so small you can barely fit a piece of paper on it).
What you should actually do: study in widely varying contexts.
Studies have show that learning new information in different environments,
at varying noise levels and even mood states,
can significantly improve your ability to recall that same information when test day comes.
So mix it up. Quiz yourself on the treadmill. Lecture your roommate while playing Call of Duty.
Do practice problems standing on one foot, using a fountain pen, while listening to ACDC.
And even better: go to the classroom where the exam will be held, pick out your seat,
and do a practice exam in the same exact amount of time allotted for the test.
Now that’s context-specific learning.

5. Refresh topics in your memory often
“If I can just keep reciting my study sheet for the next 24 hours,
I’ll have it on the tip of my tongue during the exam.”
The problem with always feeling like you’re on top a new concept is that you’re committing what psychologists call the “fluency illusion.” Just because it’s easy to recall piece of information now, does not mean you won’t forget it later.
And in fact, the easier it is to recall,
the less likely it is that you will be able to remember it in crunch time.
Studies show that some level of forgetting is actually necessary in order to improve the “retrieval strength” of a new memory. Bjork’s study recommends looking for a level of “desirable difficulty” with learning new information—e.g. it should be hard to remember how to solve limits
using L’Hopital’s Rule if you really want to make sure you can remember it on test day.
So do this: Learn it once during lecture.
Then give yourself a self-test later that night, without referencing your notes.
Then wait two days. You’ll feel like you’ve forgotten everything.
But resist the urge to study your notes again.
Instead, test yourself again and struggle through, trying to pull as much of the material as you can from the depths of your memory. Each piece of information you can recall becomes more and more bulletproof to forgetting on the exam. And even wrong answers have been shown to benefit you.
Then, and only then, go back to your notes and see where you were right and where you were wrong. Make the appropriate corrections and then repeat the process.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/5-bad-study-habits-youve-probably-been-following.html

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I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube  
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?

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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”