Course Description
Do you want to Master essential study & learning strategies for ultimate exam success? Join this Essential Study Skills: Strategies for Ultimate Success to get an expert on it!
Through the course you will learn how and why you learn, multiple study skills methods, how to read, take notes and study from books, prioritisation, visual and auditory methods, ensuring you don’t miss anything out, how to preempt exam questions as well as a general study approach and a list of apps and web-based systems. This will all combine to produce a system which enables you to learn & recall faster and smarter. You will learn choose the right study technique for you, appreciate the types of study you may undertake. You will be able to identify what reading style best matches your type of study and more.
The course offers you a complete learning and study system that can be adapted to you & your topic.
What you’ll learn
- choose the right study technique for you
- appreciate the types study you may undertake
- understand that there are three main ways that you learn
- identify what reading style best matches your type of study
- practice and appreciate the different types of condensing and summarising methods
- understand how cue cards work
- acquire note-taking skills that will aid studying
- know how to study from books in an effective and efficient way
- understand how to prioritise your studying
- Know how to preempt what questions you may be asked
- appreciate how visual methods can aid information assimilation
- understand the benefit of auditory methods and techniques
- understand methods to ensuring you don’t miss anything out when practicing / answering questions
- learn the ASPIRE strategy
- undertake a critical reflective learning exercise
Requirements
- you may wish to take notes as you along
- please complete the baseline/pre course questions. This will be re-visited at the end of the course as part of your critical reflective learning
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Introductory video
00:04:00
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Why do you study?
00:05:00
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How do you learn?
00:04:00
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Acrostics
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Acronyms
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Analogies
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Mnemonics
00:04:00
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Reading video – styles & methods
00:06:00
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Keywords
00:03:00 -
Tree structures/diagrams
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Spider diagrams
00:02:00 -
Mind maps
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Concept maps
00:02:00
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Flash cards
00:02:00
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Skeleton prose
00:04:00 -
The Cornell Note Taking System
00:03:00
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PQRST & SQ3R methods
00:07:00
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The traffic light approach
00:03:00
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Method of Loci
00:06:00 -
The peg or hook system
00:01:00
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Auditory approaches
00:02:00
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BRG
00:01:00 -
PEE
00:02:00
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The ASPIRE approach
00:03:00
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Summary video 1
00:10:00 -
Summary video 2
00:08:00
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