Study & Homework Tips

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN IS LIFE"S MOST IMPORTANT SKILL 

At EPS, we aim to maximize the students" capacity to absorb and master knowledge of different disciplines and to learn, step by step, to apply the acquiorange knowledge in a productive way.

So, we encourage our students to regularly study and review the studied material inside and outside class. We pass our students as well homework assignments that may include a quantity or period of reading to be performed, writing or typing to be completed, problems to be solved, a school project to be built, or other skills to be practiced. 

 

Study Tips

Pick a Place and a Time

Set Up Your Study Space: Your study space should be quiet, comfortable and distraction-free. It should make you feel happy and inspired. Decorate it with your favourite pictures or objects. If you want to listen to music or burn incense, pick a space that lets you do that.

Find Your Best Time: Some people work better in the morning. Others work better at night. Work out which time suits you and plan to study then. Don"t study much later than your usual bedtime - pushing yourself late at night can make you too tired to study properly. 

 

Discover Your Learning Style

Auditory learners learn by listening: If you’re an auditory learner you could try reading your notes aloud and discussing them with other people. You might like to record key points and play them back.

Visual learners learn by seeing: If you’re a visual learner you could use colours in your notes and draw diagrams to help represent key points. You could try to remember some ideas as images.

Tactile/kinesthetic learners learn by doing: If you’re a tactile/kinesthetic learner you could use methods like role-playing or building models to revise key points. 

 

Review and Revise

Quiz Yourself: Get a friend or family member to quiz you on key concepts. Offer to help your friends with their work too. Quizzes are great ways to get confident about what you know and find out what you still need to learn.

Make your Own Study Materials: Think up some practice exam questions or create your own flash cards to help you study. This way you learn it all twice: once when you make the study materials and once when you use them to revise. 

 

Effective Listening

- Concentrate on what is being said. Do not allow noise to distract you.
- Ask questions when you require clarification.
- Recognize the feeling and style of the speaker.
- Beware of implied meanings and ideas.
- Note main ideas and summarize key points.
- Have an open mind and be sensitive to the speakers’ point of view. 

 

Taking Notes

- Write your notes in your own words rather than the teacher"s.
- Listen for important facts and ideas; do not try to get down every word.
- Date your notes and if you use loose-leaf notebook, number all pages, at the end of the term or semester you will be glad you did it.
- Keep your notes neat. It is discouraging to have to study from sloppy note books.
- Organize your notes as soon as possible after taking them.
- Keep all notes on one subject together.
- If you are not sure about the meaning(s) of some words that appear in the textbook whether technical or non-technical, keep a glossary of such words and refer to it frequently. 

 

Points to remember to have a good study habits

- Record hints of day"s work.
- Ask help from the teacher in difficult assignments.
- Make up some missed during absence.
- Specific time should be allotted in a secluded room to avoid disturbance.
- Assignments should be completed on the same day to avoid piling up of work.
- Develop good work and proper study habits. 

 

Writing an Assessment

- When confronted by a large number of questions in an objective assessments, do not ru through them in panic. Instead, determine how much time you can afford to spend on each question and pace yourself accordingly.
- Answer the easiest question first, and then return to the ones you have left out. Sometimes the test gives away some of the answers.
- Guess an answer only if there is no penalty of guessing.
- Be on the lookout for words that may provide a clue to the correct answer, words like "seldom", "generally", and "tend to" often makes a statement true, words like "always," never, and " Only are more likely to make it false.
- Before looking at the possible answers to a multiple choice question, try to frame the answer in your mind, then look t the choices given.
- Do not change the answer that comes to your mind first, unless you are absolutely sure that it is wrong.
- As far as possible, limit your answer to the prescribed number of words. However, do not try to achieve this by counting the words. Rather count the number of lines you have written. 

 

Preparing for class assessments

- Set up a special study schedule to prepare yourself for your class assessment. Plan it so that everything can be covered in the time available.
- Avoid cramming. Your review should be completed well before the exam.
- Take break of 5-10 minutes after studying intensely for 40-50 minutes.
- Make class cards for learning formulas and equation in odd moments.
- Practice a lot of problems in subjects like physics, Chemistry and Math.
- Do rote memory task and review the details just before you sleep.
- Revise within 10 minutes long and difficult answers.
- Start with an easy subject and switch to more difficult subjects.
- Stop studying when you are tired or fatigued.
- Writing out an answer is one of the best revision method.
- Practice old question papers. These give you a clear clue as to what the examiner is generally looking for.
- Find out what kind of assessment you are getting ready for.
- For each subject make a detailed list of all topics you have to cover. Arrange it in order of importance and follow this order in your answer.
- Memorize essential facts and formulas.
- Make up questions that you think or should be on the assessment and try to answer them.
- Get a good night"s rest before the exam and begin the exam day with a good breakfast.
- Be sure to wear comfortable clothing.
- Come to the examination hall with the things you will need (ruler, pencil, calculator etc.) include an extra pen and pencil. 

 

Getting Better Grades/Marks

- Fix your mind on what grades/marks you desire. It is not enough to say "I want good grades/marks".
- Determine what you will give in return for getting higher grades/marks. Write down what you will do for it.
- Establish a definite time when the improved grades/marks are to show up: next unit test, assignment project, etc.
- Write down your "plan of action" and start immediately whether you are ready or not.
- In capital letters, print a statement about the grades/marks you desire and the time you will acquire it. State what you will do to get the result and how you will do it. Paste in a post nearby where you will see it often.
- Periodically read your written statement aloud. Concentrate as you read it and think of yourself already possessing this grade/mark.
- Keep checking to see whether in fact you are reaching the goal you planned to make.