Study Techniques

Would you like to be more efficient in your learning? If so, begin to be more proactive in learning. Examine how you approach tasks and learning situations. You might find if you are honest, you are wasting time and not doing anything that will help you remember content, record important points, ask questions, deepen your understanding or improve your performance.

To Be Ordinary is Easy - Join Everyone Else

You may be coasting along, without a thought for where you intend to be. You may not be setting any goals along the way that will help you define what you want to get out of the learning experience and you may not be creating any study guide questions of your own. In short - you may deserve the results you get!

To Be Extraordinary Takes Work

Yes, if you want to be ordinary that will be easy to achieve, but if you want results you will have to become proactive, set goals, manage your time and put more effort into everything -"to the victor go the spoils". In life you must decide how much you want. The more you want the more you have to excel to get it. Study Techniques is not a sit down and let it all happen and everything will be fine. The following guide is a wake up call. Learn to monitor your own learning behavior and tweak your performance as if you were preparing to win in an Olympic event. "To the Victor go the Spoils" "Study Techniques" by Ben Jones on Ganxy

How to Succeed in School: Answer the Question

The Intellectual Battle

Are you ready to do battle? When you read the assignment question you are being invited to do battle and it's a battle you can win if you prepare adequately and if you understand the rules. In order for you to win this game you must address the ground rules.

The Keywords of the Topic

Not only must you understand the question you must know the meaning of the keywords and ideas. Their are process keywords, that tell you what to do and their are content keywords that tell you about the topic. If your knowledge of these is poor then you must start by researching the meanings of the keywords and deepen your understanding.

Your Arguments and Your Solution

By completing your research and your notes you are now in a strong position to become an expert on the topic and offer a solution. If you don't feel like an expert then your research and note making are poor and you should continue to gather information about your keywords and the topic so that you feel you are an expert. Poor knowledge leads to poor writing and there is no way you can answer the question adequately and get a good mark. "How to Succeed in School - Answer the Question" by Ben Jones on Ganxy

How to Succeed in School: Why You Want to Become a Good Reader

Reading is the essential skill that is a daily requirement in our daily lives and parents would do well to promote it, by becoming good role models, by showing their children that they use and love reading and by reading to their children. Establishing good reading habits early in life is the key to promoting good reading skills in their children, which they will use to learn in the content areas. Reading is also the way we pick up knowledge about spelling and language use and this flows through to written expression. It's no secret that good readers are more likely do do well at school and it's no secret that doing poorly at school is a quick way to enter the poverty trap.

Want To Develop Good Life Skills?

Let's face it: the modern world is not the place it used to be where you could leave school without skills and still have a good chance of making it in life. The demands of our future world will sideline a lot of people who have poor communication skills and no desire to be top performers. It all starts with a few basic, but necessary skills, such as reading and writing. "How to Succeed in School - Why You Want To Become a Reader" by Ben Jones on Ganxy