There are many helpful hints and tricks to use when taking tests, whether they are short answer, multiple choice or matching questions, read below to ease your test taking worries and give you confidence on your next test.
Imagine it’s the end of class when your teacher suddenly announces that you will be having a quiz tomorrow on what you learned this week. “Don’t forget to study!” Your teacher calls out as you rush out of the door as the bell rings. Be honest, how many of us immediately think, “HA! I don’t need to study.” Unless you are among the 2% of people in this world with a photographic memory, chances are when you get that quiz tomorrow, you aren’t going to know everything on it. According to a study from Tufts University, studying not only helps our memory but it also reduces stress. When you get that quiz tomorrow, and you realize halfway through that you don’t know any of this stuff (like anything), it’s likely that you’ll start to feel that prickly sweat start to form on the back of your neck, and that sudden dryness in your throat and- Okay we’ll get into symptoms of stress later. Point is, not studying causes stress which then limits how much your brain can remember. There are many different ways to study. Just like we each have different learning styles, it’s important to find out which study habits works for you. Here are a few of the most successful study habits out there.
We are all uniquely different in everything we do, including how we absorb the information that we learn. When someone asks you to recite the order of operations in math, do you immediately respond with, “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally”? Or are you the type of reader that when given the chance to go to the library in grade school, you went straight for the comic books because you would rather understand a story through pictures and animations, than reading tiny words stacked on top of each other on a never ending page. Every piece of information that we remember more than another is related to our individual learning style. There are many different types of learning styles. We may have more than one learning style, depending on the content of the information we are learning. For example take Kevin Malone who could only solve math problems correctly when it was related to pie or other food related arithmetic. (Do we have any Office fans here?) We are going to focus on the 7 main learning styles. As you read below think about which learning styles you use.
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