General Study Skills
You should review your notes and handouts on a ________ basis.
Daily
This is the most important aspect when trying to take notes.
Staying focused on the teacher's lesson and keeping the writing simple and short for the notes.
It is important to _____________ what you read.
Understand.
To be prepared for a test, you should:
Study days in advance, sleep well the night before and eat well.
Keeping your body ______________ and alert will make studying much easier and allow you to retain more information.
Healthy/relaxed.
Believing in yourself and having a positive image of yourself is known as what?
Self-confidence
Name one method of note-taking.
Cornell method, mind mapping, outline method, charting method, sentence method.
It helps to highlight keywords in a text or to _________ a paragraph so that the information is simpler and shorter to remember.
Summarize.
In preparing for a test, you should not do what?
Study the night before!
Should you study everything in one day?
No.
Writing down due dates for these ______ will help in general study skills.
Homework, assignments, and tests.
You should always ___________ your answers if you have time at the end of a test.
Double check.
It is important to ask the teacher for ________ if you don't understand something in the textbook.
Help.
At what point should you relax and take slow deep breaths if you need to calm yourself down?
During the Test!
You should always get plenty of ________ when trying to stay focused while studying.
Sleep!
What is to outsmart?
To defeat, to outdo, to do better than, to outthink, to beat.
Always write down the information the teacher___________.
Writes on the board, says are important to remember, and repeats.
Read __________ if you are looking for a specific answer or idea.
Slowly or carefully.
You should _________ questions you can't answer; go back and answer them last.
Circle.
Why is it important to not just read your notes while studying for the test?
Because reading repeatedly is not productive. Reading and talking to yourself or teaching others are much better strategies.
Check myGDS daily, write in my planner and plan, block out time for homework daily.
When should you read over your notes?
That evening after class or as soon as possible that week.
Don't _______ pages if you have a reading assignment.
Skip.
You should take a deep _____________ before entering the classroom and tell yourself that you will do well because you have prepared well.
Breath.
Above all else, you should always believe in _________ !
Yourself.