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This Is How to Discover Your Best Study Method
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The sequential (or analytic) learner
It is an analytic person likes to learn things step-by-step, or sequentially.
Knowing if you are a sequential learner can help you take advantage of the study recommendations.
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Characteristics of a sequential learner
- Sequential learners are more likely to respond to a problem with logic, instead of emotion.
- You may feel the need to understand each part of an algebra equation.
- You may be good with time management.
- You tend to remember names.
- Your notes are categorized and labelled.
- You plan ahead.
Difficulties
- You may get hung up on details because you have to understand before you move on.
- You get frustrated when people don't understand things as quickly as you do.
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Analytic style study itps
- Ask for clear rules. Without rules, you might feel lost.
- Don't worry about not finishing a task. Sometimes it is good to move on and re-visit a project later.
- Don't worry if some things don't seem logical.
- Group your information since you are good at categorising things.
- Sit in front of the class to avoid getting distracted.
- Don't worry about big concepts you don't grasp right away. You may need to know all the details first before you can put them together.
- Take things step-by-step, but don't get hung up if you don't understand a specific step.
- Ask for clear goals if you feel you need them.
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Analytic learners favor traditional learning methods
Analytic learners like facts and like learning things in sequential steps.
Many of their preferred methods are used in traditional teaching. Teachers generally give tests that favour analytic learners, such as true and false or multiple choice exams.
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Visual Learning
... is learning by seeing the information through images, graphs, and other visual materials.
Study Tips for Visual Learners
- Color Code. Assign color to common themes in your lectures, when highlighting information.
- Organize your notes by compiling handouts, putting tabs, writing neatly, using outlines, to make your notes appealing.
- Study the Graphics. Use charts and graphics in your textbook to easily remember information.
- Draw pictures or figures to accompany the information you're trying to learn.
- Watch documentaries or videos to get a bigger picture and expand your knowledge on the topic you want to learn.
- Draw concept maps to easily categorize a certain subject. Illustrate pictures relating to each subtopic.
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Learning how to learn
Learning how to learn is a meta-skill. It is a critical skill for everyone who needs to pick up and master new concepts frequently.
Understanding what is learning and how our memory works wil...
Learning skills
Learning how to learn is critical for everyone. Most of us have to deal with a changing world and to learn how to manage tons of new information.
However, most of our learning methods are outdated and far from optimal. It may even be giving us an illusion of learning, like re-reading and highlighting that don't provide proper feedback to show what you haven't learned.
Focused and Diffuse Mode
Focused and diffuse modes provide two models for how we develop, elaborate, deepen and broaden connections. Both methods are important.
- The focused mode of learning is about bringing related concepts together into a unit, called a chunk.
- The diffuse mode operates through a wider net of connecting general ideas across different fields. We use this diffuse mode while we sleep, exercise or daydream.
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Learners are made, not born
Effective learning=organizing your goals
Thinking about thinking
Metacognition (thinking about thinking) is about being more inspective about how you know what you know. It's a matter of asking ourselves questions like: Do I really get this idea? Could I explain it to a friend? What are my goals? Do I need more background knowledge? Or do I need more practice?