Most students lose concentration after 20 to 30 minutes of studying. When you feel you are not learning efficiently take a break and reinforce your prior studying behaviour.

Reinforce your study behaviour 

There must be a dedicated area in the house which is NOT your bedroom or dining room where you are able to study for long periods of time.

Create a Study 

Every class you attend, every note you take, every text you read should be times where you think "I intend to learn this material". Such mindfulness will impact your learning effecrivity.

Mindfulness 

Trying tk learn any material that is meaningless is a difficult task. Always try to understand the deeper meaning behind everything you read and learn.

Discover the Meaning 

Try to think yourself how to apply or use a new concept. Ask yourself when or where a particular concept would have the most value.

Deeper processing 

Try to use a mnemonic device to memorize facts. <ol><li>Acronyms - Coined words </li><li>Acrostics - Coined Phrases </li><li>Interacting Images </li></ol>

Mnemonics 

<ul><li>Survey </li><li>Question </li><li>Read </li><li>Record </li><li>Recite </li><li>Review </li></ul>

SQ4R

Competent note takers write only the key points, facts, definitions or concepts. Elaborate on your notes withing a few hours of the class. Ask for help if required.

Note Taking 

Make sure you are not confusing recognition with remembering.

Underlining 

Always attend class regularly. You will learn more and it is good practice for the world of work.

Attendance 

Allow us to divide a large amount of material into smaller more manageable portions. Make sure your study group does not degenerate into mere socialising.&nbsp;

Stay Groups

Make sure you get enough sleep everyday. Sleep consolidates learning.&nbsp;

Get enough Sleep

This book present proven strategies to enhance learning and reduce wasted study time in any learning situation.

books

Books

This book presents proven strategies to enhance learning by employing effective study techniques. As learners utilize techniques from the book, they often find that they, in fact, learn more while studying less. The book is intended for students from junior high to post graduate level. Parents often tell their children to "study more" but if students are not using effective study strategies, they are often frustrated and generally wasting time.The book provides concrete strategies for concerned parents who want to help their children learn more effectively.This book is also helpful for teachers. Teachers often have little knowledge about how to enhance learning skills. They, like parents, usually tell students to "study more". Once again, this book provides concrete strategies so teachers can facilitate learning.

Professor Marty Lobdell taught Human Sexuality, Human Development and General Psychology for over 40 years at Pierce College. During this time, he won numerous awards for teaching excellency.

Marty Lobdell

Study Less, Study Smart

Change isn't like surgery. Even when you change, the old beliefs aren't just removed and replaced with new ones. The new beliefs take their place among the old and as they get stronger they give you new ways to think, feel and act.

The Process of Change 

Vowing, even intense vowing is useless. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan. Think about the when, where and how.

Initiative 

Embrace your fixed mindset. We are all a mixture of growth and fixed mindsets and we need to acknowledge it.

Step 1 of the Journey to the Growth Mindset 

Identify the triggers for your fixed mindset.

Step 2 of the Journey to the Growth Mindset 

Give your Fixed mindset persona a name.

Step 3 of the Journey to the Growth Mindset 

Take your fixed mindset persona on a journey with you. When you are facing a setback or a trigger let your persona show up, do it's thing and then dialogue with it about your plans.

Step 4 of the Journey to the Growth Mindset 

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement. “Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes “It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research has focused on why people succeed and how to foster success. She has held professorships at Columbia and Harvard Universities, has lectured all over the world, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly book Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by the World Education Federation. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20.

Study Less, Study Smart

Mindset

Pranav Rohit Madhurabharatula