6 Strategies for Effective Learning

Tip: Create your own practice test

In Physics, you wonder how Newton's laws of motions connect. You search through the textbook and try to figure it out.

Tip: Make a connection between ideas you're studying and different examples that you find for it

Tip: Review information from a day ago, a week ago, and a month ago

When studying English, you switch between incomplete sentence rules, who/whom rules, and identifying comma splices

While studying history, you create a timeline for all the events you're learning about

When studying for a Spanish test, you create flashcards for all the verb conjugations

Tip: Look at a diagram and then explain in your own words how it works

When learning about political parties in Am Gov, you ask your teacher about parties that aren't Democrats or Republicans

Two weeks before Am Gov Exam 3, you set aside 20 minutes in Seminar almost every day to study

Tip: Ask yourself questions about what you're learning and then look up answers

Tip: During different study sessions, study things in a different order to strengthen understanding