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Posted in Just For Learners on May 24th, 2009
A great post from Colin over at Mac Samurai, about how he went from failing all his courses to straight A’s.
I’ve always believed that anyone can get straight As - they just need to learn the study skills so they know what they need to do, then put enough time aside to do it.
Some people [...]
Posted in Just For Learners on Apr 20th, 2008
What they are: You’re reading a blog! “Blog” is short for “weblog”. Blogs are a series of articles, kind of like a newspaper or magazine, which are called “posts”, and are shown in date order (most recent first). The idea is that the blogger regularly publishes new content to keep their readers informed or to [...]
Posted in Just For Learners on Apr 20th, 2008
It has a funny name. But bear with me … it’s awesome.
What it is: del.icio.us is a “social bookmarking” site. When you’re surfing the internet, and want to go back to a page,
you probably save it to your Favorites or Bookmarks, right? Instead you can save it to del.icio.us, which is online, not on your [...]
Posted in Tests and Exams on Apr 12th, 2008
My aim is to help you study smarter, not harder. Here’s some simple things you can do that will improve your test and exam performance without studying more. Honest
The day before the test:
Go over all of your notes, skim through the text book and thoroughly review everything.
Pack your bag with everything you’ll need: pens [...]
Posted in Just For Learners, Tests and Exams on Apr 11th, 2008
Previous posts in this series:
1. Know thyself
2. Use it or lose it
Why write study notes:
1. Less to revise:
Textbooks have a lot of information that helps you understand; once you understand, you only need reminders
Your notes will have information that is now second nature to you
Some of [...]
Posted in Just For Learners, Tests and Exams on Apr 8th, 2008
Previous post in this series: 1. Know Thyself.
Now that you know your learning style, the next step is to use it. If you didn’t take the learning style test in part one, here it is again.
Auditory and read/write learners have it easiest in western education settings, which often involve listening, talking, writing and reading text [...]
Posted in Just For Learners, Tests and Exams on Apr 4th, 2008
Test season is upon us again! This is the first in a series of posts to help you study easier, not harder.
The single best thing you can do to study easier is to learn using your own preferred learning style.
Are you visual? Do you learn best from pictures, color and shape?
Maybe you’re auditory - you learn best [...]
