Studying Strategies
Week One
Week One
Organization,
specifically a planner
What is the key to preparing to study?
Bring water
Chose seat wisely
Scan the test
Keep an eye on the time
What are some helpful test-taking strategies to use during an exam?
Critical thinking
What is a way to interpret and evaluate what you hear and read rather than accept everything you read as truth?
Pretty much every time our eyes are open.
When do we use reading?
A writing strategy that can assist in the organization of information and pull ideas together.
What is outlining?
Not longer than an hour.
What is how long should you study a subject?
Multiple choice,
true/false, short answer, matching, and essay
What are the five major types of question formats?
Decision making
What is a process of thinking critically about choices?
The primary means by which you acquire ideas and gather information for production.
What is reading?
This visually describes the steps, variables, or part of a process that makes learning easier.
What is a process diagram?
True or false?
Behavior modification can work for studying.
What is true? Rewards can act as incentives upon completion.
True or false? Test-takers are not allowed to read all questions before beginning the exam.
What is False? Test-takers are encouraged to read the questions before answering all the questions.
Problem solving
What is finding a way to solve a challenging situation?
Survey, question, read, recite, and review
What is the SQ3R reading comprehension method?
When studying a topic where the events are in sequence, or order, this can be the best option to organize and visualize the content.
What is a timeline?
As many as possible.
Picture things, say out loud, write them down.
What is how many of your senses should you use to help study?
Remove up to two answers that seem irrational.
What is a way to narrow down choices to increase chances of a correct answer in a multiple-choice question?
Creative thinking
What is thinking in unexpected, nontraditional, unconventional, or non-linear ways?
Puts the mind in gear to start thinking about the content.
What is why is previewing effective?
Techniques used to aid memory retention and recall such as acronyms, chunking, and songs and rhymes.
What are mnemonic devices?
1. Study with friends.
2. Ask for help.
3. Teach someone else.
What are three techniques for studying that can help you learn with a friend?
Television, Smart Phones, Internet, or Radio
What are four distractions that could interfere with studying?
Scientific thinking
What is an orderly, logical, step-by-step process?
Highlighting and annotating
What are tools to help with reading comprehension and underestanding?
Restating someone else's ideas in your own language at roughly the same level of detail versus reducing the most essential points of someone else's work into a shorter form.
What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?