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Tips For School: Effective Note Taking (On Paper) Fixed Color Coordination E.G

This document provides many tips for effective school study habits. It recommends taking notes in an organized manner with color-coding, identifying weaknesses to create a study plan. Good study habits include managing time well, memorizing smartly, getting enough sleep, and revising daily. When learning difficult subjects, build a framework to recursively deepen understanding through examples and context. Active reading techniques are outlined, like pausing to think and look up unknown words. Studying should be done in focused sessions with breaks, prioritizing concepts, self-testing, and teaching others. The Feynman technique of simplifying concepts to explain to others can demonstrate deep understanding.

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Tips For School: Effective Note Taking (On Paper) Fixed Color Coordination E.G

This document provides many tips for effective school study habits. It recommends taking notes in an organized manner with color-coding, identifying weaknesses to create a study plan. Good study habits include managing time well, memorizing smartly, getting enough sleep, and revising daily. When learning difficult subjects, build a framework to recursively deepen understanding through examples and context. Active reading techniques are outlined, like pausing to think and look up unknown words. Studying should be done in focused sessions with breaks, prioritizing concepts, self-testing, and teaching others. The Feynman technique of simplifying concepts to explain to others can demonstrate deep understanding.

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Tips for School

Effective note taking (on paper)


- Cornell - Feynman - flow - mindmap (digital?)
Fixed color coordination e.g.
- Titles & key words
- Formal definitions
- Practical examples
- Important info
- Include extras like read article
- Include (teacher questions)
Get 45:
- Identify weaknesses
- Study plan
- Past papers
- Effort in IA
Studying:
- Not only bullet points
- Productive time management
- Memorize smartly
- Sleep 7-8h daily
- Revise DAILY
- Concentration music?
Improve concentration
- Active over passive learning
- E.g. reading AND taking notes (brief only to foster deeper
understanding)
- Make revision more demanding for the mind to prevent distractions
Good study habits:
- E.g. weekly-daily to-do list (after tasks you do no more work)
- Depth of processing (dont read, etc. at a superficial level!)
Learning hard subjects:
- Build framework so that it is as easy as other things
Recursively deepen understanding (Feynman technique)
Deepen intuition examples analogies
Put it into context (how will I be using it?)
Prepare for exams:
- Go through textbooks and make post-it flashcards (topic front,
definition back)
- Reference book chapter in notes
How to remember what you read:
- Be motivated to absorb information
- Skim slowly at first
- Associate what you read with prior knowledge to establish
connections
- Take notes on significant info
Read aloud
- Study with purpose and confidence
Interact with the material
- Highlight key terms/passages or mark (underline)
Get the right info

- What will be assessed?


- Why?
Active reading
- Read daily to get into the habit
- Pause after paragraphs, think about what youve just read, as if you
are explaining it to yourself
- Mark unknown words and look them up
- Skim over all pages (highlighted/marked)
Marty Lobdell Study less, study smart
- Break studying into sessions (25-30 min.)
- Do something fun for 5 min. and reward after studying
- Suitable study area and environment
- More active in learning = more effective
- Prioritize concepts over facts (stay in remembrance)
- Highlight important terms
- To guarantee recollection and not just recognition: quiz/test yourself
and be active
- As soon as possible after class: add to your notes to solidify
concepts
- Ask for clarification
- Teach what you have learnt
- Use mnemonics (acronyms, coined sayings, image associations)
1. Rewrite notes in condensed format. 2. Use mindmaps to connect
information. 3. Research addition information. 4. Complement theory with
practical examples
Every subject has the opportunity to be interesting
- Realize the connections with things that you are good at
Every subject is learnable we all have the intellectual abilities
How to study:
- Debugging What dont you understand (identify missing piece of
the puzzle)
The Feynman technique
- Concept I want to understand
- How I would explain it to someone who dindt know about it at all
- Simplified language with examples/analogies
- Walk through steps and get stuck to pinpoint things you dont
understand (then go back to textbook or ask)
- Useful for self-testing
- If you can explain something in simple language, it demonstrates
your deep understanding and can be remembered for a long time

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