How to Effectively Study

Studying is hard... lets try make it easier

Firstly, lets figure out your learning technique:

There are 4 main styles of learning [Auditory, Visual, and Kinesthetic learners]

Auditory learners-

• benefit from oral instructions

• likes to talk

• loses concentration easily

• remembers names easily

• Extroverted

• Prefers verbal praise

• likes listening

Visual learners-

• thoughts wander during lectures

• Well organised

• likes to read

• concentrates well

• good at spelling

• good handwriting

• good memory for faces, but not names

Kinesthetic learners-

• move around a lot

• likes to participate in learning

• not very good at spelling

• likes to try new things

• talks with gestures [moves hands a lot]

• likes to touch objects

If you are still confused, take this quiz; http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml

Methods to adopt with your learning techniques;

AUDITORY LEARNERS;

• Record lectures for repeated listening

• Use rhymes to help memorize

• Say study material (record and listen repeatedly for review)

• Listen to recordings of study material while driving to work or school

• Read aloud

• Discuss the material

• Listen carefully

• Sound out words

• Say words in syllables

• Talk through problems; paraphrase ideas about new concepts

• Paraphrase directions

• Talk about illustrations and diagrams in texts

• With new processes, talk about what to do, how to do it and why it’s done that way

VISUAL LEARNERS;

• Use mind pictures or mind maps

• Take notes

• Use “clue” words for recalling

• Use colored highlighters to color code texts and notes

• Use maps, charts, diagrams, and lists

• Watch audiovisuals

• Take photographs

• Use study cards or flashcards

• Use notebooks

• Watch instructor’s mouth and face

• Use visual chains or mnemonics

• Watch TV

• See parts of words

• Write down directions

KINESTHETIC LEARNERS;

• Walk while studying

• Move and lecture the walls

• Do things as you say them

• Practice by repeating motions

• Dance as you study

• Write words; use markers, pens, pencils to see if they “feel right”

• When memorizing, use finger to write on the table or in the air

• Associate a feeling with information

• Stretch

• Write on a white board in order to use gross muscle movement

• Use the computer

• Use hands-on activities with objects that can be touched

• Study in short time periods; get up and walk around in between

• Make study tools to hold

• Use flash cards; separate into “know” and “don’t know” piles

• Use plastic letters and magnetic boards for new vocabulary

• Write and rewrite to commit to memory

GOOD LUCK AND TRY YOUR BEST!