Archive for the 'General' Category

Things To Consider When Joining Extra-Curricular Group

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 in College Studying, Extra-Curricular Activities, General | 1 Comment »

Student life is not complete when you do not have any extra-curricular group where you could share your time and talent because studying is not only to build your career but also to establish friendship and develop your social networking.
But of course, we need to think before joining a club as the group we link [...]

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Success Tips For Student Leaders

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 in College Studying, General, Student Leader | No Comments »

Many students dream to be a student leader because student leaders are known as one of the most prominent names in the campus. Student leader often receive more privileges than the standard student but being one is not easy because if you are a student leader, people expect more from you.
Being a student leader requires [...]

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The Value Of Motivating Yourself To Study

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 in College Studying, General, Studying Tips | No Comments »

Motivation is important in studying. If the student lacks motivation, he or she may not have good grades, will not perform well or worst; will not able to finish the course. But motivation is something that increases or decreases over time depending on the circumstances that we are in, especially when we are engage in [...]

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College Studying Is Far Different From High School

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 in College Studying, General | 1 Comment »

I guess you too will agree that college studying is far different from high school in a sense that college students manage or take control most of their time than when they were in high school. High school teachers closely monitor their students; they always give advices whenever they see something unusual even if you [...]

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LASSI Assessment

Monday, December 25th, 2006 in General, Studying/Learning Styles | No Comments »

LASSI or Learning And Study Strategies Inventory assessment is a paid but comprehensive assessment about the students’ knowledge on the use of learning and study strategies associated to their specific skill, will and self-regulation components of strategic learning.
The focus of LASSI assessment is on both covert and overt thoughts, behaviors, attitudes and beliefs that relate [...]

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The Importance of Having A Study Plan

Saturday, November 25th, 2006 in Examination Tips, General, Studying Tips | No Comments »

Having a study plan is very important because this will help you achieve your desired goals with respect to your studies. It also helps you to get through your exams without worrying of getting a failing grades. Remember planning is an essential to succeed in all fields of activities. In the absence of this nothing [...]

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Handy Tips In Analyzing Essays

Saturday, November 25th, 2006 in General, Studying Tips, Writing Tips | No Comments »

To analyze essay is a simple task if you know the rules to observe and you know what you are doing. So before you start analyzing the essay make sure you have a pencil so you can mark the important message the essay is telling you while reading it.
Then find the main idea of what [...]

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Why Passive Studying Is Not Good

Friday, November 24th, 2006 in General, Studying Tips, Studying/Learning Styles | No Comments »

Passive studying merely involves purely reading your notes or reading just the text. Many says its quite not good and I agree because when I read my own notes I spend many hours understanding and thinking what I have just written. Basically because my own notes were written in the manner only me can read [...]

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Understanding Study Skills and Studying Techniques

Monday, November 20th, 2006 in General, Studying Tips, Studying/Learning Styles | No Comments »

Study skills are often interchanged with studying techniques because these two are really related. But to differentiate study skills and studying techniques, associate these two with cause and effect. Consider studying techniques as the cause and study skill as the effect of using the studying techniques.
Examples of study skills are good or retentive memory and [...]

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Techniques in Reading Text Books

Monday, November 20th, 2006 in General, Reading Tips, Studying Tips | No Comments »

Students are often bored or gets tired easily when reading text books especially if we are asked to read several chapters. But there are actually some techniques to speed up reading long chapters of text books. The first technique is to have a quick look to the entire chapter by previewing what is the chapter [...]

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