SQ3R

SQ3R

SQ3R: A Great Reading and Studying Technique

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Improve Your Study Skills

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 It is a proven technique tom sharpen your study skills. In college, you'll be required to do lots of reading. You'll often have to complete reading assignments in several different different books for several different courses at a time. 
SQ3R helps make reading and studying purposeful and effective, so that you use your time efficiently. Here's how his strategy works.

Survey
Let's say your assignment is to read one chapter. First, get an idea of what the chapter is about by trying reviewing the highlights:

• Read the title and subheadings.
• Notice words that are italicized or bold.
• Look at the charts, maps, graphs, and other visual material.
• Read captions.
• Read the very beginning and end of the chapter.

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The Power Of Study Groups (1)

The Power Of Study Groups

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Part 1

Working Together Helps Everyone

You may have noticed that when you're explaining something you've learned to a friend, you begin to understand it better yourself. This happens because, when you explain an idea, you need to think more deeply about it.
The same principle makes study groups useful. Studying with others in a small group is helpful because you:

• Think out loud
• Share Ideas
• Learn from one another

In an effective study group, you and other students hash out lesson materials together- explaining concepts, arguing about them, figuring out why one person's answer differs from another's- and in the process, you most likely learn more than you would have studying by yourself.

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How To Take On College Studying (3)

How To Take On College Studying

Part 3

Do The Reading
You need to do more than just read the chapters you are assigned- you're expected to understand them thoroughly. Here are some tips:

• Don't skim. Read all the material carefully.
• Break up difficult assignments into sections you can digest- chapters, subsections or even paragraphs.
• Look up any words that you don't understand.
• Pause to think about whether you understand the material; ask questions in class about anything that is unclear.
• Take notes instead of highlighting, this makes you think through the rephrase and key points.
• Create a summary sheet of what you learned from each assignment you read.

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How To Take On College Studying (2)

How To Take On College Studying

Part 2

Choose Where To Study
Where you should study depends on two factors: the environment in which you are best able to concentrate and type of work you are planning to do.

• The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough desk space- usually your dorm room, your apartment, or the library. 
• For completing problem sets or brainstorming possible test questions, you may want to study with a group or at least in a setting where fellow students are available for discussion.
• When you are reading book chapters or working on a research paper, you are probably better off in a less social environment.

Improve Your Study Habits
Here are simple steps you can take to help you get a handle on studying:

• Have a routine for where and when you study.
• Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for each study session.
• Do things that are harder or require more intense thought at your most productive time of day.
• Take breaks if you need them so you don't waste time looking at material but not absorbing it.
• Get to know students whom you respect and can study with or contact to ask questions.
• Keep up with the workload and seek help when you need it. 

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Great study methods: 
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How To Take On College Studying

How To Take On College Studying

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/961.html

Part 1

Develop Good Study Habits
In college, you'll need to build on the study skills that you learned in high school. The demands of a college class are probably more rigorous than those you are used to.
You can succeed by knowing what to expect and how to handle it.
Think of college as a full-time job, in which you spend 40 hours a week on class, labs, study groups, and doing homework.

Being organized and using your time well are essential. Learn more about time management, and use the guidelines below to develop your study skills.

Decide When to Study
Work out about how many hours you need to study every day. Then make a schedule.

• Figure out what blocks of time you have available throughout the day, in the evenings, and on the weekends.
• Consider what time of the day you are most alert- there are morning people and night owls- and try to schedule your studying accordingly.
• Think about whether you do better studying for a few hours at a time or sitting down for marathon sessions.

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Successful Students (9)

Successful Students 

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9. . . .don't cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You'll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night sessions for Friday's exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fall to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn't. Shortcuts cut you short. You can't plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn't help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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Successful Students (7-8)

Successful Students 

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7. . . .understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you're bored, and you'll become bored. Act like you're disinterested, and you'll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, "act" like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. . .Talk about what they're learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it's a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path from moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don't "know" material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, don't do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, reading, etc. with friends, recipe to chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you are teaching your peers. "talk-learning" produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Effective Study Methods (3)

Effective Study Methods

Part 3

How I deal with multiple projects/tests: When I have more than one test or project, I break up my studying. I will study for one test for 30 minutes or so and then switch to the other one. If there is some part of a project that I know it will not take me very long, I will do it when I don’t have much time. If I am really in a crunch for time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the  morning and the other in the afternoon or at night. By breaking up the studying into different sections, I feel like I get much more done. Cram sessions do not work for me. I need to study something for a shorter period of time more often for it to sink in.

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