The How to Study Handbook

Your complete guide to getting better grades with less studying!

Tired of endless studying? 200 pages of everything you need to spend less time studying, get better grades, pass your exams and have more time for yourself!

Study Skills Handbook

Teaching Study Skills

How to Study is one of the most important skills but one that is rarely taught. Not sure where to begin?

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What Your Instructor Wants to See on Your Exam     I​t sounds like such an easy question:  ”What does your instructor or teacher want to see from you on your test paper?”  And the easy answer:  ”He wants to see the right answers.” H​owever, it’s a bit more complicated than that.  What an instructor really wants is to see that you are grasping the material [...] More >>>

Yes, You Really Can Study Math     It’s a popular misconception that you can’t really study for math.  People who say you can’t will admit that you can do math assignments and math homework.  But actually studying it–looking at material in order to better on tests and upcoming assignments–that, they say, is impossible. They’re wrong.  It’s true that studying math is different [...] More >>>

Effective Study with the Study Scrapbook     Scrap booking as a hobby is all the rage these days.  Go to any department store and many supermarkets, and you’ll find whole aisles or half-aisled devoted to scrap-booking.  Hobby stores, likewise, have caught onto the trend and started stocking scrapbooks, dividers, and stickers for making the best memory books. There are even scrap-bookers clubs [...] More >>>

Myths You Might Believe About Studying–But Shouldn’t     Most of the self-help myths that we tend to believe come from well-meaning people. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make them any less myths. In the field of study, for instance, what usually happens is this:  A person finds a technique that works for them, and helps them improve their grades. They then spread the word that [...] More >>>

Acing Classes with Little or No Study     You’ve probably known people, either in high school or college, who seemed able to pass any class–even make A’s–with little or no study.  It wasn’t necessarily your imagination, either.  It’s a fact that people learn differently, and some people manage to absorb material without “study” in the traditional sense.  That is, they might have other [...] More >>>

The Study Guide Exchange: Great Group Study Method     Sometimes group study can be a productive thing, and sometimes, not so much.  Group study becomes less than productive when your study sessions turn into occasions for friends to get together to have a good time and share gossip.  Often, there’s little actual study that goes on during these sessions. However, that doesn’t have to [...] More >>>

Should You Be a Coffee Shop Studier?     You’ve seen them, you’ve talked to them–but are you one of them? I’m talking about those people at the local coffee shop, who have their laptop computers and perhaps a textbook or two, along with their notebook and pen. I’m talking about the coffee shop studier. This is the person who, rather than going to [...] More >>>

Making Time in Your Schedule for Study     Sometimes the busy student finds it hard to find time to study for his classes. Oh, it’s not that you don’t want to study. But between family stuff and extracurricular activities and maybe even a part-time job–how do you find the time? By having a plan, that’s how. Here are some suggestions that will help [...] More >>>

How To Study Quote of the day May 17th, 2012

Suck on a peppermint while you study. This keeps your nasal passages clear and lets you take in more fresh air which gets more oxygen pumping to your brain. This is an awesome way to help you memorize stuff for school -- Kelsie

 

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The Study Skills Handbook is a Complete Guide to Improving your Study Skills