Improve Your Study Skills - Tips and Strategies for Success
Enhance your study skills with helpful strategies such as mindset improvement, overcoming challenges, controlling what you can, and why studying is essential. Engage in memory games and exercises to boost retention and recall abilities. Explore the benefits of learning and self-discipline to achieve academic success.
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1stform study skills 12 April, 2025
Find the answer to the final question 10960 = 4 24766 = 2 33762 = 1 75311 = 0 90088 = 7 Hint 62801 = ?
Studying is all about mindset I can t do it. I can improve.
What do you do when things are tricky? On your own - write down your top three strategies for when you find something a bit more difficult. Now, in pairs compare your answers and then pick the top three. Finally combine everyone s ideas from your table and select the top three
Control the controllables Identify what you can control about a situation and what you can t. Things I can t control Other people s actions Things I can control Things in the past There is no point focusing on things in the outer circle. You can t control them. Natural disasters My words My actions My effort My Ideas My decisions Focus on what you can control The news The weather How other people feel
Why do we study? Learn new things Improving increases our self esteem To broaden opportunities To explore new ideas To develop new skills You don t know what you don t know Enforce self discipline Remember stuff you have previously learnt
Ebbinghaus forgetting curve Information remembered Third recall Second recall First recall New information Time
Memory game 1 End 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 banana orange apple grapes peach pear plum pineapple strawberry blueberry
Memory game questions 1 1. How many fruits were on the list? ____ 2. Was grapefruit on the list? __________ 3. What were the first three fruits? __________________ ______________ _______________ 4. What 4 fruits began with the letter P? __________________ ______________ _______________ __________________ 5. Name the 2 kinds of berries that were on the list. __________________ ______________ Strawberries Blueberries 10 No Banana Apple Orange Pineapple Peach Plum Pear
Memory game End 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 dog cat mouse horse cow giraffe pig chicken turkey sheep
Memory game questions 2 Dog 1. What were the first three animals? __________________ ______________ _______________ 2. What animal would you be least likely to see on a farm? ______________ 3. List the four animals spelled with 3 letters. ___________ __________ __________ ___________ 4. Only one animal ended with a Y. What was it? _____________________ Turkey Cat Mouse Giraffe Dog Cow Pig Cat
Dual Coding This is a really powerful study technique. You need to use both words and pictures. Label a diagram or illustrate a point to help your mind remember it.
How to create a revision resource. You are going to practise two popular techniques. Mind maps Flash cards The branches show different ideas for each topic You put a question on one side and the answer on the back
Hippocratic theory Creating your mindmap Galen s theory Medical theories Medicine in the middle ages
Flash cards Differences between animal and plant cells? Front Back
Creating the revision resources is only the start. Have everything included correctly. What more detail can you add? Now test yourself can you repeat the mind map, answer the questions from the flashcards.
Retrieval practise Practise really does make things easier. In an exam you need to recall information, so that is what you need to practise.
