How to Improve Your Online Learning Experience
The Internet is taking over, and we can do just about anything online: order pizza, find love, learn to drive a stick shift (true story), go shopping, and more. And increasingly, modern students are learning online—through YouTube tutorials, news consumption, and especially...
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Educational Psychology: Learning How to Learn
How do you study and learn material? Do you highlight? Reread? Use mnemonic devices? Summarize? Well, hold on to your hat: Educational psychologists have found all of these popular learning strategies to be relatively ineffective. They don’t work—or at least,...
How to Do Better on Multiple-Choice Questions
If you’re like most students, you would probably choose a multiple-choice test over an essay. But multiple-choice questions can still be very tricky. Luckily, there are plenty of strategies you can use to outthink and outsmart multiple-choice questions. We’ll give...
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11 Word Processor Essentials That Every Student Needs to Know
We get it: You’re a student. You barely have enough time to sleep and eat, much less learn every tool in Microsoft Word, Google Docs (which is a free word processing program), or the dozens of other word processing programs...
13 Ways to Take Notes During Class Lectures
We’ve all had them: those lecturers who talk so fast we can barely keep up! So what do you do when your teacher won’t take a breath to let you write? We asked students how they do it and collected...
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Why You Shouldn’t Cram for A Test… And How to Do It If You Need To
Here’s the deal: Cramming for an exam should never be your primary method of studying. Are you surprised? Probably not. Cramming is not a good study habit. It does not allow you to recall or use knowledge effectively or...
How to Study Math Series
We’ve all been there before: You understand the example problem as your teacher walks through it in class. Then you get home to do your homework and have no idea where to even start. It happens to the best of...
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