1. LEARN HOW TO STUDY Student Wall Planner and Study Guide Success

2. Why Study? Keep Your Parents and Teachers Happy?
May be it is to improve:
Knowledge
Understanding
Self Satisfaction
Information Recall
Marks

3. Process Stop NOW! Now ACT on the methods to be shown! Yes No
Do you want to know HOW to improve?
Yes No
Stop NOW!
Do you BELIEVE you can improve?
Yes No
Do you really WANT to improve?
Yes No
Do you NEED to improve?

4. Study Study is not learning.
Study (1) is the process that should help you to retain what you are taught and what you learn in the long term.

5. Study By studying what you are taught you will be better able to:
(2) Recall it
(3) Use it
(4) Explain it to others and
(5) Achieve results that are the best reflection of your ability

6. Study
Study is about:
Doing a variety of things to get your mind actively engaged in your work
Doing things often
Ways that help you remember and apply what you have been taught

7. Study
Study is:
(6) A routine that you organise and use to achieve your very best effort
(7) An activity that requires discipline

8. The 12 Pieces to the Puzzle
1 Set Your Goals
2 Learn (8) How to Study
3 Understand and Use Your (9) Wall Planner
4 (10) Prepare for Examinations
5 Manage the Basics
6 Know Yourself

9. The 12 Pieces to the Puzzle
7 (11) Motivate Yourself
8 Improve Your Memory and Recall
9 Use Mapping Strategies
10 Improve Your Reading and Essay Technique
11 Streamline Your Bookwork and Note Taking Technique
12 (12) Evolve as an Independent Learner

10. Study is …. Something that takes organisation, time and effort
A process of doing things frequently
Not a ‘natural’ thing for most people
(13) Work you set for yourself
A focus on routine
Repeated practice until you are confident
(14) A way of achieving your best personal results
Making the effort to see your teacher if you do not understand things
A way to avoid the need to ‘cram’ at the last minute
Growing in confidence about your school work and ability

11. Study is NOT …….. Doing any work set by the teacher
Something that only ‘smart’ students do
Doing any work set by the teacher
Reading over things
Doing assignments
Homework
Something you ‘get back to later’
Repeating the same mistakes
Something you do after you get a bad test result
Spending lots of hours doing the wrong activities
Sitting in your room for hours just (15) looking through your notes

12. Study Technique - Learning
Study Effectiveness
Learning Style and Learning Behaviour
Drive/Motivation

13. Study Record The Student Wall Planner has a Study Record section.
Place a () in the box for each (16) 30 minutes of study you do for each subject area.
Many students find this progress (17) method encouraging.

14. Homework v’s Study X
Sometimes student think study is doing assignments
Sometimes student think study is doing homework
Sometimes student think study is reading over their notes
Study is (18) done to supplement homework and assignments
Even is you have no homework you (19) always have STUDY! X X

15. Homework v’s Study
If no study is done on new material covered in class, then on average one forgets up to 80% of what was taught within 24 hours
However if the new material is studied within 24 hours it takes 7 days before 80% is forgotten
If a 2nd study review is done within the next 7 days then it takes 30 days to forget up to 80% of the material

16. Think About Your Homework and Study Habits
COMPLETE THE TABLE
(1) Try to avoid doing too much
(2) Plan Specific times
(3) Utilise same period of time daily
(4) Specific goal for my homework and study times
(5) Hardest task first?

17. Think About Your Homework and Study Habits
(6) Start my work on time
(7) Review my notes before beginning assignments
(8) Tell friends not to contact me during homework and study sessions
(9) Phone a friend when a task is too difficult
(10) Use weekends to review my school work

18. Analyse Your Time
Experiment and try different times and see which works for you.
You simply need to discover which (20) general time (or combinations) suits you best with other activities or interests you have.
Remember to get all things into balance.

19. Time Analysis Chart (Average Hours Per Week)
Homework
Assignment
Study
Total 10 3 2 8 11 4 9 12 5 13 7 15 14 16 18 6 21 17 23

20. Analyse Your Time Early in the morning before school?
Are you doing the suggested time on homework, assignments and study?
When is the best time of the day to do things?
Early in the morning before school?
After school – fresh in your mind?
Evening after a meal and relaxed
Try something new – get up early one morning a week for the next 5 weeks to do your work

21. Other Study Ideas 1 Form a Study Group 2 Summarise Topics – Pages
3 Cards – Definitions and Key Points
4 Diagrams
5 Extended Reading (beyond text)
6 Review Daily/Weekly Information