Category: Study Skills
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Why Flashcards Burn Facts Into Your Brain [Infographic]
This infographic from Course Hero breaks down how flashcards actually help you study. It shows how active recall and recognition based recall differ, it highlights the different situations in which studying with flashcards is effective, and goes into depth on the psychology of using flash cards.
Check out the infographic and head on over to Course Hero if you’re looking for some awesome flashcard resources.
The Truth About E-textbooks
The widespread use of e-readers and tablet computers has revolutionized the way we consume media. Newspapers, magazines, journals, and books are getting swept up in the tidal wave of digitalization. Seemingly the one section of the market that’s lagging behind is textbooks. It seems strange, since college students are the ones who would most benefit from cheaper books that take up less space.
There are many questions to consider before you buy your first e-textbook. I’m going to break them down into a couple categories, so that you can decide for yourself whether or not ebooks are the right choice for you.
5 Must-Have Apps for the Tech Savvy Student
Technology is a double edged sword, both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, technology allows for communication and collaboration between far away places, can help solve complex mathematical and logic problems, and stores vast quantities of information, allowing feats never before dreamed of by human kind.
On the other hand, we have…Farmville, Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, some of the worst procrastination tools of all time. Luckily, for every time-wasting application, there is a competing and powerful counter measure.
Rainy Mood + Classical Music = Ultra Productive Studying
This is something that someone showed me when I was a sophomore in college, and it increased the productivity of my studying remarkably. Check out the website Rainy Mood. Let it play in the background while you are studying. Then, once you have Rainy Mood going, add another layer of studying awesomeness by putting on [...]
Zen And The Art Of Time Management
Mark Twain once said that a classic is “something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” I’ve doctored this a little bit regarding time management. It’s something that everybody wants to be good at but nobody wants to figure out how.
How to Really Cope With Finals Stress
First of all, stress is a highly personal and situational thing, so it is important that anyone reading this article recognize that if the suggestions listed here-in don’t work, your stress is probably not due to just finals. That, or you are simply incurable and are doomed to a life of acne break-outs, peptic ulcers, [...]
