STUDY TIPS by Faye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLw9WJrMBuk

1. Start Writing Everything Down

a. Write Due Date Down First
b. Write Date Where You Will Start Essay or Assignment
c. Day to continue day/ assignment
2. Score Top Marks for essays/ assignments
a. Write this Down on top of your paper/essay
i. NOTE:
1. Look for criticism by Hugh Saddler
2. Find out which criticism by Finkel and Hugh are consistent with
3. Research hydrogen as an energy source
4. Add onto Ludlam’s equity argument
ii. Table for references

QUESTIONS/ SOURCE FROM SOURCE: NOTES

KEYWORDS
 b. SUMMARY:
i. Break down question
ii. Create & Complete table
iii. Check with Grammarly
iv. Submit
3. Write down To-Do List
a. Write Column on most important task you have to get done
b. Column next to it is ANY ADDITIONAL THINGS
4. For Digital Notes:
a. SUMMARIZE
b. PARAPHRASE
c. ANSWER
d. REVISE
e. UNDERSTAND/ RESEARCH

I. Command/ Control-F
II. Type in keywords
III. Skip to important parts
5. Make Google Docs dedicated to questions you don’t understand
a. Make sure you write the question
b. Write down current understanding
c. Show professor to explain answer
6. Go Help Classes that school provides
7. Trial and Error

8. Track Everything
9. Feed your curiosity and ASK QUESTIONS
10. Don’t just STUDY
a. Teaches Time-Management
b. Prioritization
11. Start knowing your teachers/ lecturers
a. Asking them questions after session
b. Arrange meetings to ask questions you did not understand
12. STOP THE REASONS
STUDY TIPS by Ali Abdaal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukLnPbIffxE

PART 1: POPULAR BUT INEFFICIENT TECHNIQUE by Dunlosky

Rereading: low utility, waste of time

Highlight: low utility

Summarizing: low utility if you don’t know

PART 2: Active Recall/ Active Retrieval/ Practice Testing

- Retrieving facts/stuff on your brain

- Has high utility
- Use brain

Specific Strategies:

1. Anki
2. Making notes with the Book closed
a. How would I explain this topic
b. Write how much I know/ remember
c. Check the book again and see the things I missed
3. Draw Spider Diagrams with book closed
4. Cornell Note- Taking System: Write questions for yourself based on material so that when you revise the
material you look at your question you try to answer them (ENGAGE). Go through the questions and try
answering them.

PART 3: Space Repetition

Techniques:

1. Anki
2. Practice a little bit each day
3. Magical Space Repetition Spreadsheet
a. Make Google Sheets
b. Make different sheet per subject
c. Scoping your subject or Listing down all your topics (down one column)
d. Write down the dates that you did space repetition
e. Color Code:
i. RED: do not know
ii. GREEN: know
iii. YELLOW: a little bit I know
How to Remember Everything You Read by Mariana’s Corner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ilaTsTkuQ

6 Thinking Hats Method by Edward De Bonno

Blue Hat: Conductors Hat

- Focus on control thinking and managing decision making

- Asking for summaries, agenda, read conclusion

Green Hat: Creative Hat

- Try to explore a wide range of ideas

- Different solutions to same problem

Red Hat: Heart Hat

- These are emotions

- Express your feelings regarding the problem w/o having to justify those feelings logically

Yellow Hat: Optimistic

- Look at issues with positive light

- Benefits and Good things about question
- Any kind of added values from your ideas

Black Hat: Judge Hat

- Cautious
- Assess Risk
- Critical Judgement
- Explain why you have concerns

White Hat: Information Gathering

- Knowledge and Insights you collected

How to Remember:

1. Class discussion
2. Writing paper on the subject
3. Mind mapping
4. Teaching the topic

MENTAL MODELS

1. Confirmation bias
2. Availability bias
 3. Utility

Active Repetition is needed

7 Daily Habits of High-Performance Students by ProElon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1bpod0vKM

1. Enter into a Flow State

a. Be in the Zone
b. Focus on the task
c. State of Concentration
d. Being Involved in the Activity that other things don’t matter

HOW?

a. QUIET STUDY PLACE

b. CLEAR AWAY ALL DISTRACTIONS
c. CLEAR DESK

2. Productive Daily Routine

a. Create a structured routine

3. Learn from Others

a. Spend time with people who you want to be in the future

4. Practice Gratitude
a. Priming: when you wake up, you think of incredible things happening in life at the moment

5. Willing to Pay the Price

a. Need to give up something to get what you aim for

6. Adopt a Growth Mindset

a. Never Stop Learning
b. Small Improvement everyday
c. Improve yourself everyday

7. Know what exactly what you want

The Ultimate Mind Map Guide by Cajun Koi Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7j_CoKD1Xs

T – Thought Process
R - Relationships
E - Expressive
E – Efficient

1. Prepare a list of key terms

2. Outline the terms
a. Figure out the main topic and sub-topics
3. Plot the main topics on the page
4. TREE comes in:
a. Thought Process:
i. How do these main topic fit together logically?
ii. How do these key terms relate to each other?
iii. Are they similar or different?
iv. Compare and/vs Contrast
v. Cause and/vs Effect
vi. Part and/vs Whole
b. Relationships:
i. Can group according to time frame.
ii. Can group according to location
c. Expressive:
i. Express through Visual/ Analogies
d. Efficient:
i. Revisit all other parts
ii. Thought process: easily see the flow of ideas, know the start, see clear line of reason
iii. Relationships: see the relationship between the ideas, use color coding or highlighting, try group
together things as much as possible.
iv. Expressive: visuals are more efficient to review than text.

HOW TO READ YOUR READINGS by Team Lyqa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez71dJaf6SU

1. Add Spaces and Margins in the reading

 a. Space is designed to put notes
2. Highlight New Words and Important detail
a. New words and meanings
b. Details: Date, Time, Location