Study Skills

[Audio] Study Skills. Isabel McKee. Topview of mint green workspace with laptop, coffee, notebook, pen, glasses, and mouse.

[Audio] I chose two study skills: Outlines, and practice tests..

[Audio] Outlines. Colorful printed pages. Outlines.

[Audio] Don't put everything in the outline, it's supposed to be improved upon. Let yourself put ideas you're not fully sure of yet in the outline, there's no pressure. Make sure the outline builds up to what you're going to turn in. For example:.

[Audio] You have an English assignment. Before typing out the final essay, you decide you want to brainstorm ideas and make sure you know what you want for the full assignment before you type it out. This is what an outline is for. Instead of typing out the full assignment, you put in ideas for and pieces of what you're going to write. You make the "shell" for the rough draft or final copy..

[Audio] Practice tests. Practice Tests. Black pen against a sheet with shaded numbers.

[Audio] Try to mimic a natural test environment. If you get an answer wrong, go over it after to see why, and try to improve. If you see a pattern of getting a certain topic wrong, then you know to focus on studying that topic. For example:.

[Audio] You have an anatomy and physiology test coming up. A week before the real exam, you make your own practice test. While you take the practice exam, you stay in a quiet environment with few distractions to mimic taking the real exam. After, you see you got a lot of questions about the respiratory system wrong. Because of this, you decide to focus on studying that topic. This is how a practice test is done..

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