Intensive Study 8 5. Learn how to read. "I used to spend hours going through irrelevant material, Amanda remembers. "But then I got used to reading quickly; if the first sentence of a paragraph wasnt relevant, Id move on to the next paragraph.”“ The best course ever took,” says an Oklahoma student, "was speed-reading. I not only increased my words per minute but also learned to look at a books table of contents and pictures first. Then, when I began to read. i had a sense of the material and i retained a lot more To such students, the secret of good reading is to be an active reader-one who keeps asking questions that lead to a full understanding of the material being read
8 5. Learn how to read. “I used to spend hours going through irrelevant material,” Amanda remembers. “But then I got used to reading quickly; if the first sentence of a paragraph wasn’t relevant, I’d move on to the next paragraph.” “The best course I ever took,” says an Oklahoma student, “was speed-reading. I not only increased my words per minute but also learned to look at a book’s table of contents and pictures first. Then, when I began to read, I had a sense of the material and I retained a lot more.” To such students, the secret of good reading is to be an active reader — one who keeps asking questions that lead to a full understanding of the material being read. Intensive Study
Intensive Study 9 6. Take good notes. "Before writing anything, I divide my page into two parts, " says Amanda, "the left part is about one third of the page wide; the right, two-thirds. I write my notes in the wider part, and put down the main ideas on the left. During revision, this is very useful because you can see immediately why the material is relevant, rather than being worried by a great mass of information. " Just before the end-of-lesson bell rings, most students close their books, put away papers, talk to friends and get ready to leave. But a smart student uses those few minutes to write two or three sentences about the lessons main points, which he scans before the next class
9 6. Take good notes. “Before writing anything, I divide my page into two parts,” says Amanda, “the left part is about one third of the page wide; the right, two-thirds. I write my notes in the wider part, and put down the main ideas on the left. During revision, this is very useful because you can see immediately why the material is relevant, rather than being worried by a great mass of information.” Just before the end-of-lesson bell rings, most students close their books, put away papers, talk to friends and get ready to leave. But a smart student uses those few minutes to write two or three sentences about the lesson’s main points, which he scans before the next class. Intensive Study
Intensive Study 10 7. Ask questions. "If you ask questions, you know at once whether you have got the point or not, says Alex. Class participation is a matter of showing intellectual curiosity. In a lecture on economics, for example, curious students would ask how the Chinese economy could be both socialist and market-driven, thus interesting themselves not only in whats, but also in whys and hows
10 7. Ask questions. “If you ask questions, you know at once whether you have got the point or not,” says Alex. Class participation is a matter of showing intellectual curiosity. In a lecture on economics, for example, curious students would ask how the Chinese economy could be both socialist and market-driven, thus interesting themselves not only in whats, but also in whys and hows. Intensive Study
Intensive Study 11 8. Study together. The value of working together was shown in an experiment at the university of California at Berkeley. a graduate student there who observed a first-year calculus course found that Asian-American students discussed homework, tried different approaches and explained their solutions to one another while the others studied alone, spent most of their time reading and rereading the text, and tried the same approach time after time even if it was unsuccessful
11 8. Study together. The value of working together was shown in an experiment at the University of California at Berkeley. A graduate student there who observed a first-year calculus course found that Asian-American students discussed homework, tried different approaches and explained their solutions to one another while the others studied alone, spent most of their time reading and rereading the text, and tried the same approach time after time even if it was unsuccessful. Intensive Study
Intensive Study 12 After all. the secrets of a students are not so secret. You can learn and master them and become an a student too
12 After all, the secrets of A students are not so secret. You can learn and master them and become an A student, too. Intensive Study