Improve Your Study Habits To Maximize Your Success

Improve Your Study Habits To Maximize Your Success As a high school student you understand the need for effective study habits. Youre likely very busy; involved in after school activities, working a part time job, and focused on your studies. The busy life of a teenager doesnt always lend itself to the best study habits, but working to improve the duration, habits, and schedule of your studying can help improve your grades and strengthen your academic portfolio.Many of these effective study habits require little to no additional time and most are focused on improving the time you already spend studying. Create a weekly schedule Take inventory of your typical weekly commitments and decide when you can schedule regular study sessions. Be creative and find pockets of time that can be set aside for studying. Instead of studying only in the evening, after the rest of your commitments have ended, consider several short morning study sessions each week. If you are a morning person this may help you to get up and hit the books, making efficient use of your day. Build extra study sessions into your schedule so you can easily rearrange your studying when an unforeseen event causes conflict. Dont procrastinate Once your weekly schedule has been established stay on top of information as it is presented in class and avoid procrastination. Dont wait several weeks to revisit material. Ongoing attention to new material allows you to build strong connections between concepts, effectively use your resources, and quickly identify when you dont understand. Waiting to study immediately before exams or assignment due dates will prevent you from deeply understanding the concepts. Stay organized You should begin each term with an organizational system that will allow you to easily access resources, assignments, and reading materials. As the term progresses you should work to maintain this system. Falling into disorganization will affect you academically and will lead to wasted study time. If creating an organizational system isnt one of your strengths the professionals with Huntington Learning Centers can help you devise a way to stay organized and focused on your studying. Part of Huntingtons personalized study skills sessions is to work with you to create an organizational method that fits your personality, habits, and busy life. Use your teachers as a resource Your teachers are more than just professionals that present information each day in class. They are committed to your academic success. Use them as a resource when you feel your studying isnt effective. If you are confused, dont understand a specific concept, or feel like you are falling behind it is incredibly beneficial to talk to your teachers. Dont wait, either. As soon as you feel the work is slipping away ask for help! Do your research Dont settle for just the information presented in class. Use a portion of your weekly study schedule to perform further research into important concepts. Finding ways to connect your learning to other subject areas, current events or news developments, and a deeper understanding of the concepts will build a strong foundation for your ongoing study sessions. Find what works for you Your study skills are personal and what works well for others may not contribute to your best learning. As you work to improve your skills pay attention to what is most effective and what isnt producing results. Be willing to change your study location, materials, and methods to find what works for you! Huntington Learning Centers can help boost your study skills by providing personalized support focused on building individual habits. An initial evaluation of your current study methods is analyzed for areas of strength and weakness. Your individual program will teach you the necessary skills that build upon one another for continued academic success. How have you improved your study habits? Do you have any successful tips that may help other students improve their habits?

Getting Motivated Through Goal Setting - Private Tutoring

Getting Motivated Through Goal Setting BobbiM Mar 31, 2014 Goals are great. Amen. In order to set goals that can be achieved, your goals should be: -Realistic: Can the goal be achieved? If not, how can the goal be divided into smaller goals? You should try to have short-term, intermediate, and long-term academic goals. A short-term goal is one that you will achieve within the next few days. Intermediate goals are ones that you will achieve within the next few weeks or months. A long-term goal is one that will take longer still, perhaps a fee months or even years. Most people make the mistake of making only intermediate and long-term goals, but short-term goals are also important because they help you follow the progress you are making and they help you stay on track. -Believable: Do you feel that you will be able to achieve your goal? Being confident about your ability to learn is crucial to your motivation. If you feel that a task is too difficult for you to achieve, your motivation will decrease and you might give up before you even try. Some students believe that they can succeed only in certain topics. If you find yourself believing this, take a minute to reflect on how that negatively affects your motivation to learn in those courses. -Desirable: How much do you want to reach your goal? In order to succeed in reaching your goals, they should be goals that you really desire. Then, learning will be particularly rewarding or enjoyable to you and it will be easier to achieve. Your goal may be to graduate from college within four years and to land a good job in your field, but you must have the desire for success to reach that type of goal. -Measurable: How will you know whether or when your goal has been met? Some goals are easy to measure. If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you will know whether your goal has been met when you weigh yourself. However, sometimes learning goals are not so easy toes sure, so you need to set some standards to help you measure your progress. This may be as simple as taking a few minutes to think about what you have learned after each study session or it may include a more in-depth assessment. In general, you will need more checks of your progress for long-term goals than for short-term goals. Excerpt from  College Success Strategies  by Sherrie L. Nist and Jodi Patrick Holschuh.