MEMORY
READING
NOTE-TAKING
TEST-TAKING
STUDYING
100
Memory tricks, such as acronyms, acrostics or the loci system.
What are mnemonics?
100
The nine step / 3 phase process used to improve comprehension when reading textbooks.
What is Muscle Reading?
100
The best place to sit during a class lecture.
What is front and center?
100
Procrastinating and then attempting to complete all the studying necessary for a test at the very last minute.
What is cramming.
100
The amount of time one should study for each in-class hour.
What is 2 hours?
200
They're cheap, portable and can involve all three learning styles to help you study.
What are the benefits of using Q-Cards (3X5)
200
Putting what you read into your own words and saying it out loud.
What is Recitation?
200
The three main steps to the note-taking process.
What are observe, record & review?
200
When the answer is actually given and you only have to recognize it.
What is an objective test question?
200
Difficult or boring subjects.
What should be studied first.
300
The two halves of your brain used for processing information.
What are visual and verbal.
300
The time frame for which you should first review information you've read and want to remember.
What is within 24 hours?
300
Not giving an author proper credit when using his or her work in your paper.
What is plagiarism?
300
The two ways in which one needs to be prepared for test-taking.
What are academically and mentally?
300
Studying in the same place every time so your body gets used to it.
What is conditioning?
400
Putting similar information together in your memory for easier recall in the future.
What is creating associations?
400
The amount of annotating one should do in a textbook.
What is less than 10%.
400
The left-hand area of the Cornell Notes system used for study questions.
What is the Cue (Q) Column?
400
A hybrid question that is half objective and half essay.
What is short-answer or fill-in-the-blank?
400
Any of the five senses that keep you from focusing on your studying.
What are distractions?
500
The best way to retain information your studying (90%) according to the Learning Pyramid.
What is teaching others?
500
The type of information one should pay attention to and highlight or mark after reading a textbook.
What are key words and phrases?
500
How information is organized in the Outline format.
What is sequential or linear?
500
Two techniques to minimize physical anxiety during a test.
What is deep breathing and muscle relaxation?
500
The amount of information you lose when you don't study and simply hope to remember what you heard in a lecture or read in a textbook.
What is 80%?
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