Learning Study Skills

Get tips for improving your reading speed and memory, creating detailed notes, and preparing for tests.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Using the challenges

1. Ramp Up Your Reading

• How fast do you currently read?
• Using your hand to guide your eyes
• Reading faster on a computer screen
• Boosting your reading speed with simple practice drills
• Improving your reading comprehension through speed variability
• Dealing with charts and diagrams

2. Improve Your Note-Taking Skills

• Note-taking for linear vs. nonlinear concepts
• Avoiding excessive highlighting and note taking
• Taking notes with the Cornell system

3. Techniques for Enhancing Your Memory

• Understanding how your memory works
• Remembering better using the multiple reading process
• Memorizing new vocabulary using the similar sound technique
• Using mnemonic devices
• Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration
• Using pictures to improve your memory
• The link system
• Memory palaces and the method of loci
• Numeric peg system: Linking numbers to pictures
• Numeric peg system: Memorizing a 10-item list
• Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items
• Remembering important dates
• Memorizing formulas and equations
• Challenge 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary
• Solution 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary
• Challenge 2: Create a memory palace
• Solution 2: Create a memory palace

4. Score Better on Tests

• Creating a study plan
• Reviewing your notes and re-reading
• Taking strategic breaks while studying
• Scoring better on reading tests
• Tips for the day of the exam

Conclusion

• Next steps