Time Management
Employing spare time thinking is one way to use this strategy.
What is Hidden Time?
Devote the majority of your study time to quizzing yourself.
What is the Sixty-Percent Solution?
Icy water, lucky socks, ear plugs, breathing techniques
What are Mercy Supplies for test time?
At the conclusion of a study, these dogs had brains that were approximately 10% heavier.
Who are the dogs who spent time figuring out how to use their toys and how to get along with other animals?
Attempting to learn in big chunks of time.
What is Massed Learning?
2:1
What is the recommendation for studying two hours for every hour you're in a college class?
Teaching a challenging concept to a loved one or doodling as you listen in the margins of your lecture notes.
What is Elaboration?
Take a minute to look over the entire test, circle and underlining important terms, writing notes in the margins.
What is Surveying an Exam?
Communication between these brain cells is what allows us to think and solve problems
What are neurons.
Thinking and reflecting about how you learn.
What is Metacognition?
Set your own, earlier deadline and then strive to meet it.
What is defying Parkinson's Law?
Mixing up the order in which you learn something. Also, leaving space between learning sessions.
What is Interleaved Learning?
Learning, studying, and taking the exam in the same chair in the same room.
What is a Paired Association?
Effort + Good Strategies + Help from Others
What is a formula for growing your "math brain"?
You gain this when you read and re-read your notes as a method of preparing for an exam.
What is Fluency?
A strategy for using a few minutes of time before and after a lecture to deepen your learning and add up to 10.5 study hours over the course of the semester.
What is the Banking Pattern?
An ancient memory technique that involves imagining and situating things you need to learn/memorize in a familiar, emotionally-connected location
What is a Memory Palace?
Write down the most challenging details that will be on the next test (and that you're afraid you'll forget). Redraw the exact list each time you study. Before starting the test, write out your memorized sheet
What is a Brain Drain?
Seeks challenge and believes that failure is an encouraging springboard for growth and development.
What is a Growth Intelligence Mindset?
You gain this level understanding when you use active learning strategies, including Retrieval Practice and Elaboration.
What is Mastery?
Schedule cerebral tasks for morning and evenings.
What is an effective way to employ your natural Circadian Rhythms?
Low-stakes quizzing that forces you to recall what you've just learned.
What is Retrieval Practice?
Reflect on what went wrong; identify strategies to alleviate or address any weaknesses in your learning before the next exam.
What is Evaluating a Test soon after you finish it?
One must strive for success and avoid failures at all costs.
What is a Fixed Intelligence Mindset?
Your brain forms up the whole of an experience before you even begin.
What is Advanced Organization?