SQ3R: Can it help me become a master student?

Survey, question, read, recite, review.
1)Browse (scan) the chapter, titles, any headings and subheadings; look at any pictures, maps or diagrams and ingrain them in your brain....familiarize yourself with them prior to reading the actual chapter, they will be part of your knowledge and will help with the reading.

2)Make titles and headings and subheadings into questions; read all the questions found at the end of the chapter; question yourself as to your own current knowledge of the subject. Write out your questions.

3)While reading, look for answers to the questions you have and then answer them...write the answers next to your written out questions.
read the captions and look at the maps, pictures, diagrams, etc. again...make them yours in the mental sense. Go slow and re-read in areas which are confusing to you.

4)Out loud ask what you have read...yes, have a conversation with yourself. It may seem goofy but it will help to hear the words aloud. Write out facts from the text, but re-word them in a series of words which are easier for you to deal with. Underline and highlight important points of fact in the text. If you had plans of selling the book after the semester, scrap the idea and remember the book will be of use again later.
Anyhow, on this recite part, remember to try to use all your study senses...sight, sound, speech and writing. <TURN THE RADIO OFF> THE RADIO IS NOT YOUR FRIEND WHEN STUDYING, EVEN A SLIGHT SOUND ALTERS CONCENTRATION.

5) Each day you need to review what you have already read and learned.

Make flash cards. As I mentioned in another thread (your chemistry thread) get some study friends. They can hold up flash cards with a question and you can give the answer...or vice versa if they are in the same class. It may seem like a silly game; however it works on ingraining the information into your memory banks.

Now for some links to places on this subject... SQ3R METHOD

Another version of SQ3R

Bottom line is that you need to know yourself. What works best for you? For me it was always READ, WRITE, READ WHAT I WROTE. STUDY MAPS, CHARTS, DIAGRAMS ETC. MAKE AND USE FLASH CARDS, HAVE STUDY PALS ASK QUESTIONS...remember this, there is no such thing as a stupid question. If you are asking then it is important.

Okay I am done for now, hope some of this helped.

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Why did you bookmark your own thread? You don't need to do that.

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You could have said thanks to Sturgis. That was some very good information he provided you.

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What's a master student?

If there was a poll: Who's the most helpful person on A2K?

I would definitely vote for our dear Sturgis.

I have learned this from you!



Oh.....so we don't bookmark our own thread, Ok Miss Angel!

Don't take any pills to become a "master student".

:wink:

Well, are there any pills in the market fo that purpose, I am curious! :wink:

Umm....I want to be the kind who gets 90% + in all subjects.

Mills75, now that you are a teachere, how would you define one?

Yes, but, I don't know the name, and if I did, I would not tell you. I don't want you to start taking brain pills.

How wise of you :wink:

:wink:

Lol, you have winked at me twice!

As you are most likely aware, you are easy to wink at...now get back to your studies.

LOL If you want I will take a wink back? I like to double wink :wink: on important threads. :wink: Oh, oh, there goes a third one. Just let me know how many you want to keep.

ha, AngeliqueEast, I am flattered! Here's one from me :wink:

Oh, sorry Sir Strurgis, I just go.......(AE, keeps calling me back!)