Self-diagnosis of Study Methods

Below you will find some questions that refer to the study.
Answer in the blank space on the right:
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• YES When what the question says always or almost always coincides with your way of studying.
• NOT when what he says never or almost never coincides with your way of studying.

No. Item Rt.

1 Do you write down the most important ideas of a text on a piece of paper in your own words
when you study for a test?
2 Do you always use the same place to do homework or study at home?
3 Do you look at what times of the day you are in the best conditions to learn?
4 Have you stopped to think about how many activities you do each day and the time you
dedicate to each of them?
5 Do you eat breakfast or eat well before going to school?
6 Do you use exclamation marks, question marks, asterisks, colors, etc., to mark things that
seem important to you in a text?
7 When you study, do you find it difficult to remember the most important things in the text?
8 When a text is long, do you subdivide it into short parts to study it little by little?
9 In the place where you study, does the light that illuminates what you read come from the
opposite side of the hand you write with?
10 Do you sleep 8 hours or more at night during the week?
11 Before you start reading something, do you try to imagine what it might be about by looking
at the titles and drawings it has?
12 Before writing an answer, do you think about what you are going to answer and how you
13 are going
During to dodoit?you sometimes leave questions unanswered because you forget a key
tests,
word that prevents you from remembering how the topic followed?
14 Where you study, are there people, noises or objects that distract you?
15 Do you spend time memorizing the most important ideas you summarized about a topic?
16 When you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired and weak?
17
Have you made a work plan based on the time you have and the subjects you have?
18 Do you wake up several times during the night?
19 Do some of the topics you study seem unnecessary to you?
20 In a test or exercise, do you allocate time to answer each question?
21 Do you use different colored pencils or markers to underline or summarize?
22 Do you intersperse moments of rest when you are studying?
23 Do you prefer to learn the topics by heart with the words from the book than to learn them
with your own words?
24 Do you find it difficult to relate what you are studying with what you learned before or with
what you learned in other subjects?
25 Do you think you have low grades or did you get a low grade because your time is too busy
with other things?
26 Do you sometimes realize that you don't have everything you need to study the day before
the test?
27 Where you study, do you have enough space to organize your material?
28 Before you start studying, do you think about what you are going to do and how you are
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29 Does your study table fit everything you need to study?
30 When you have to memorize something, do you organize the ideas into diagrams?
31 When you study, do you use your imagination, trying to see what you are learning like in a
movie?
32 Does the chair you usually sit in to study have a backrest?
33 When you have a very long test to study, do you divide everything you have to study into
shorter parts to study little by little?
34 Does the height of your study chair allow you to rest your feet on the floor?
35 Do you finish what you set out to do when you start studying?
36 Is the height of the table you use proportional to the height of your chair?
37 Do you have the habit of preparing for tests at short notice?
38 Are you able to explain in your own words what you study for the tests?
39 Do you get close to the book when you study?
40 Do you use any time during the weekend to review topics that were left out?
41 Do you usually study by heart without understanding what it is about?
42 Do you use an agenda?
43 Do you relate what you learn to your daily life?
44 Do you skim the titles, tables or words in bold before you start reading a text?
45 In your place of study, do you usually open the window while you study?

CHECK IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL THE ANSWERS

Evaluate your results

From this questionnaire, scores can be obtained on five scales that analyze different aspects of
being a student.
To find out what score you have obtained on each scale , follow these steps :
1. Compare your answers with those that appear in the tables below (they are the ones that match what
an ideal student would be). Put 1 in the empty space if your answer matches and 0 if it doesn't.
2. Add the total points per scale and put the result where it says “total”.
3. Obtain the percentage by applying the formula and pass it to the Chart .
Scale 1: Scale 2: Scale 3: MEMORIZATION
READING and STUDY PLACE OF STUDY and UNDERSTANDING
TECHNIQUES
Item Rt. Score Item Rt. Score ■ Item Rt. Score
1 Yeah 2 Yeah 7 No
6 Yeah 9 Yeah 13 No
8 Yeah 14 No 15 Yeah
11 Yeah 27 Yeah 23 No
19 No 29 Yeah 24 No
21 Yeah 32 Yeah 30 Yeah
31 Yeah 34 Yeah 38 Yeah
44 Yeah 36 Yeah 41 No
TOTAL= 45 Yeah 43 Yeah
TOTAL= TOTAL=
…………x 100 = 8
…………x 100 = 9 …………x 100 = 9

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 Scale 5: FINAL RESULTS
Scale 4: PLANNING PHYSICAL STATE
Item Rt. Score Item Rt. Score Copy the total percentages into
4 Yeah 3 Yeah the corresponding box.
12 Yeah 5 Yeah
17 Yeah 10 Yeah Reading and Study
20 Yeah 16 No Techniques …….%
22 Yeah 18 No
25 No 39 No
26 No TOTAL= Place of study …….%
28 Yeah …………x 100 =
33 Yeah 6 Memorization
35 Yeah …….%
37 No and
40 Yeah Planning …….%
42 Yeah
Physical State …….%
TOTAL=

…………x 100 =
13

Now pour your results into the following graph:

100 100
90 90
80 80
70 70
60 60
50 50
40 40
30 30
20 20
10 10
0 0
READING and PLACE OF MEMORIZATION PLANNING PHYSICAL
STUDY STUDY AND STATE
TECHNIQUES UNDERSTANDING

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Analyze your results and answer:

1) Do I feel the need to improve the way I study? Because?

2) Am I willing to make the effort to improve the way I study?

What things do I have to improve? (taking into account the result of self-diagnosis)

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