The recommended ratio for the time you should invest in weekly study for a class
What is 2:1 (two hours for every hour you are in the class)
100
The pattern of prepping 5-10 minutes just before a lecture and 5-20 just after a lecture as a way of gaining up to 10 additional study hours per semester, per class
What is the Banking Pattern?
100
Chunks of time devoted to learning one thing.
What is Massed Practice
100
The brain benefit of surveying an exam before you begin.
What is Advanced Organization?
100
Partial Forgetting
What is a valuable consequence of spacing out your retrieval sessions?
200
Valuable time in your day that is usually wasted
What is Hidden Time?
200
The formula for growing a "math brain."
What is Effort + Effective Strategies + Help from Others
200
The areas where anxiety shows itself
What are physiological, cognitive and behavioral?
200
Brain process that requires time and distance
What is Consolidation
200
Three test taking skills/strategies to use while you are taking an exam
What are brain drains, surveying the exam, 3x through, and Mercy Supplies?
300
Work tends to expand to fit time allotted. Break that tendency by setting an earlier due date for an assignment.
What is Parkinson's Law?
300
A daily list for prioritizing your tasks.
What is the Ivy Lee Plan?
300
A UM Campus Program that serves as a hub for student opportunities beyond the classroom.
What is the Academic Enrichment Program?
300
The number of times you have to do something before it becomes a habit
What is 21-27 times?
300
Three suggestions for discouraging procrastination
What are 5 minute plan
Verbalize Excuses
Make Your Plans part of Public Record
Be specific--break things into parts
Use momentum from one accomplishment to start another
400
Ineffective Study Method
What is rereading lecture notes?
400
A note taking system that helps you incorporate color and personal/emotional connections
What is Mindmapping?
400
The Five Minute Plan helps you avoid this tendency.
What is procrastination?
400
A familiar location filled with things you need to remember.
What is a Memory Palace?
400
The belief that the ability to learn is not fixed but can change with effort.
What is a Growth Mindset?
500
Explain a difficult concept to someone as if they were five years old.
What is Elaboration?
500
The elements of intonation
What are volume, pauses and cadence?
500
Sixty percent of your exam prep time should be devoted to this practice.
What is Retrieval (low-stakes quizzing)?
500
Three times faster than speech.
What is thought speed?
500
A physiological response to stress that is in our control to change