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This document provides guidance on how to effectively study and prepare for exams. It outlines 10 key points, including learning how to study with a structured approach, asking questions to self-test understanding, organizing study time using a weekly schedule, using effective reading techniques like SQ3R, improving study habits such as testing reading speed, and developing good exam preparation strategies like practicing past papers and time management. The overall message is that success requires a dedicated, organized approach to independent study with self-testing and guidance from tutors.

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Learn How To Study B

This document provides guidance on how to effectively study and prepare for exams. It outlines 10 key points, including learning how to study with a structured approach, asking questions to self-test understanding, organizing study time using a weekly schedule, using effective reading techniques like SQ3R, improving study habits such as testing reading speed, and developing good exam preparation strategies like practicing past papers and time management. The overall message is that success requires a dedicated, organized approach to independent study with self-testing and guidance from tutors.

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Learn How to Study

M. A. Kamal, Ph. D
Director General
National Academy for Planning & Development

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Outline of the lecture
1. Learn to study
2. Asking you question?
3. How do you study?
4. Problems: Dimensions
5. How to organize study
6. Techniques
7. How to read better and fast
8. Five ways of Improving you study
9. How to deal with examinations (Good preparation
+exam technique).
10. Conclusion
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1. Learn to study

Ref : Derek Rowntree


1.1 Divide by lines across the page with frames.
1.2 Each Frame is a unit of teaching.
1.3 Each one calls for a question.
1.4 Correct answer will form the frame.

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2. Asking your question?

2.1 To try and trip you up – A


To help you learn – B
To give you a test – C

2.2 Why learn to study?


A. Identify the problem of study.
B. Are you confident about you ability of
study.

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2.3 Higher standards
A. Keep studies more and more.
B. Full time table? Compulsory sessions,
specific home works.
C. Carefully assess the program
D. Quickly spot and correct any back-sliding
E. Even after well intended spoon feeding is
there any danger or failure.
2.4 Are you responsible ?
A. You are expected to timetable your on
activities. Don’t fritter it away.
B. Success depends on :
How well you can learn
How well your tutor can teach
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Continued…
3. How do you study?
3.1 Do you have timetable?
3.2 Do you study in the same place?
3.3 Is start of a study difficult?
3.4 Do you contribute to classroom?
3.5 Do you discuss problems with your tutor?
3.6 Do you glance through the chapter before
you read the book?
3.7 Do you skip?
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3.8 Come across word- unknown-lookup it
in the dictionary?
3.9 Do you agree in memorizing ?
3.10 Do you write notes.
3.11 Do you find difficulties in expressing or
writing in study?
Harder?
Easier?
Disappear?
Productive?

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4. Problems

4.1 De motivation
4.2 Lack of purpose
4.3 Stressed social life
4.4 Lack of pursuance
4.5 Lack of interest
4.6 Forget about the theme
4.7 Put them off till later
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5. How to organize study
7 x 24 = 168 hours a week?
5.1 a. One regular day off completely
b. Morning, afternoon, evening (one)
different dates.
5.2 Weekly time-load :
Sleep 56 hours
Eating, Gossip 21 “
Travel 12 “
Classes 24 “
Recreation 20 “
133 hours
Study : 168 – 133 = 35 hours
Delirium of Exam preparation
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5.3 What is the minimum length of time for a useful study
session?

Ans : 45 to 90 minutes.

5.4 What to study?

a. Particular subjects.

b. Difficult at the top.

c. Top to bottom.

5.5 Give it a week’s trial run and unchanged time table.

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6. Technique
6.1 Getting started
6.2 Concentration
6.3 Ending a Session
7. How to take a text book?
a. (i) Some books are to be tasted, (ii) others to be
swallowed and (iii) some for to be chewed and digested,
that is, same books to be read only in parts, (iv) others to
beread but not curiously and (v) some few to be read
wholly and with diligence and attention.
b. SQ3R
i) Survey
ii) Question – Active research them a, passive browser
iii) Read
iv) Recall and
v) Review
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7. How to read better and fast- (study
time: About 50 minutes)
7.1 Comprehension
7.2 Purposeful
7.3 Main ideas: Paragraphs
7.4 Important details
7.5 Look for sign posts
7.6 Diagrams and Tables
7.7 Difficulties
7.8 Evaluate the text
7.9 Faster Reading
i) Eyes and Brain
ii) Fixations
iii) Recognition Plan
iv) Regression
v) Vocalizing
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8. Five ways of Improving you
study

8.1 Test your eyes


8.2 Stop talking to yourself
8.3 Practice reading faster
8.4 Reading with better writing
8.5 Thought units and increase vocabulary
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9. How to deal with examinations (Good
preparation +exam technique).
I. Examination success demands preparation:
A. Apply effective study techniques over period of
time.
B. Revise systematically:
1. Start now; because
a. Never enough time later.
b. Future work will come more easily.
2. Make a timetable for revision.
a. Space out revision for each topic.
b. Tackle variety of topics each day.
c. Allow plenty rest and recreation.
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3. Form a revision syndicate (3 colleagues, 3 times a
week)
a. Fosters objectivity
b. Learn by teaching others.
c. Keeps you sane.
4. Practice doing what the exam requires of you:
a. Emphasis on recall (not recognition).
b. Re-organize your ideas by:
i. Discussing with others.
ii. Revising all notes on a topic at once.
iii. Revising related topics together.
iv. Criticising own notes.
v. Re-writing notes.
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c. Tackle old examination papers:
i. Write outline plans for answers.
ii. Write complete model answers.
iii. Sit mock exams.
iv. Don’t try to out-guess examiner.
C. On the day before the exam:
1. Do not learn new things.
2. Revise normally or relax completely.
3. Gather exam equipment.
4. Go to bed early.
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II. Technique on the day of the examination:
A. Don’t discuss prospects with other students.
B. Read right through exam paper (5 min):
1. What instructions to candidates?
2. Decide what each question is asking for
(key verbs)
3. Choose your best questions.

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C. Budget your time:
1. Allocate total time according to marks per
question.
2. Leave 10-15 minutes at end for checking.
3. Note expected finishing time for each
question.
D. Plan your answers:
1. Jot down main ideas and important details.
2. Form them into a skeleton outline.
3. Outline all answers before writing any up?
¼ + of all ‘answer time’)

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E. Keep a sense of priorities:
1. Answer best question first.
2. Stick to your time-budget (½+½>x!)
3. Concentrate on main issues.
F. Write:
1. Simply, directly, and to the point.
2. Grammatically, and without mis-spelling.
3. Legibly.
G. When finished writing:
1. Check through all answers (till time is up).
2. Don’t stay for post-mortem discussions.

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III. Learn from examinations by:
A. Checking examiner’s marks and
comments against questions.
B. Comparing your answers with other
students.
C. Discussing your performance with tutor.
D. Remedying and faults revealed in study
techniques.

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10. Conclusion
1. Purpose to persuade you to teach
yourself.
2. Study is a job with your own
professional work.
3. Examine future study problems
objectively and discuss them fitfully with
tutors and colleagues.

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Thank
you
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