Improving Study Skills And Habits - Methods And Tips

Here are some methods and tips to improving your study skills and habits. At school, you are expected to be a motivated student. Most people do not get the best out of their lecture when preparing for exams. Many may know how to set up their study area and set up times for private study but there are some other tips that can help you to study better and prepare for exams.

Improving study skills takes, first, a true desire. You may not have the best grades, or you will have acceptable scores and grades but still feel disorganized, or as if you were just barely making it like treading water in a pool of hungry sharks. So the idea behind improving study skills here is first and foremost to empower yourself...by wanting to improve!

This means that you must next consider what works for YOU—not your busy body grandma or your elder who thinks he knows what is best for you because he knows what works for him or what he likes. That is, first figure out what makes you successful. Think about the times when you did do well. What study habits did you use?

Think about what ways of approaching information or receiving it or remembering it work for a person like you: Do you learn best through music? Sing and rhyme your study materials. Put the radio/stereo/ipod on and follow the beat or rhythm when you are trying to memorize.

Maybe improving your study skills will include allowing yourself to move around. If you are what is called a kinesthetic learner, you learn best by being active, by writing notes on the board, by acting out scenarios or situations, or by physically taking part in your success. If you are learning something on a computer, for example, you might learn best by doing it yourself, not by having the teacher, tutor, or helper click away on the keyboard for you.

Maybe you are a more visual learner, so improving study skills will require using materials and tools that will help you better "see" the material, situation, or problem. Use different color highlighters or crayons. Draw pictures, models, and diagrams that make sense to YOU.

Tips: Break up and conquer. If you have a huge work load, do not try to do it all at once. Divide it into small segments. Oh, put down that remote control too.

Also involved in the overall process of improving study skills, others might tell you, is setting up a workable study area. If they tell you a "conducive" study space is one which is organized and quiet, okay, try it, but also know that you might really NEED sound or activity. Just be honest with yourself. If watching Dog the Bounty Hunter really only distracts you and helps you stall, don't insist you NEED Dog to study. Ahem!

In the same respect, structure is key for most of us. I hate rules and authority and all that, but I do find that structure equals freedom. Yes, that sounds like a mind washing Big Brother saying, but what I mean is if I have a schedule, I stick to it, get the work done, and then have all this extra time around that schedule to be free...and to watch Dog....

I also find that the number one thing that helps in improving study skills, for me, is to trick myself into setting a goal and to reward myself after. So, for example, I say, "For two hours I will write this paper. At the end of two hours, I get to eat, have a drink, watch a show." If I get the work done FIRST, I get to really relax, without the burden of work, assignments, homework, or upcoming exams interfering with my show...through guilt, resistance, or nagging in my head!

More tips: Do not postpone until tomorrow what you might do today. You will probably end up doing it at an difficult time anyway. Waiting until the last minute hardly ever works. Manage your time for long term assignments, so you do not have to dread at the last minute.

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