Identifying Good Study Habits

Organizing or Planning

Learning Styles

Scheduling

Managing Time

Memorizing

Indicators of a Student’s Success in

Academics:

› Study period or time (when, how long, how

frequent)

› Study area or place (where)

› Courses of study (what)

› Study goals (why)

› Study activities (how)

Good study habit

› Serve to benefit the student as in passing

quizzes and exams, thus getting higher marks

Bad study habit

› When student gets failing grades or is not

coping with his classes

Organizing or planning

Scheduling

Managing time

Memorizing

Choose a suitable area for studying.

› Available all the time

› Free from interruptions or distractions

› Well-lighted, well-ventilated and comfortable

› Have enough space

Set up the study area.

› Gather all the materials and equipment

needed

› Keep the table tidy.

› Decorative necessities such as an organizer,

calendar and wall clock can be added

Set up the study

area.

Set your goals

› Can be long-term or short-term

List specific things or activities geared

toward the attainment of such goals

› Make sure that the goals set are within one’s

capacity, measurable, flexible, realistic, and

controllable

› Be reminded of the 3Ds (Deed – What should

be done to achieve the goal?; Date – When

should the goal be met?; Determination)

Have a positive attitude.

Set specific study goals.

Keep track of lapses of concentration.

Create a good study environment.

On a ½ sheet crosswise, list down at least

5 study goals. Identify if it’s a long-term or

short-term goal and the things you will do

to achieve it. Follow the format below.

MY GOALS TYPE OF GOAL WHAT TO DO?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

CLASSIFICATIONS

Auditory

› Prefer listening-based activities

Visual

› Enjoy watching or viewing something while

learning

Tactile or Kinesthetic

› Like hands-on activities because they love

touching things and moving about

Time Preference

Thoughts/Feelings Preference

Pacing Preference

Aesthetic Preference

Tactile Preference

Introversion/ Extroversion Preference

Relativism Preference

Reasoning Preference

Modality Preference

Learning Style Checklist. Determine your learning style by checking your preferences.

1. Time preference Morning

Afternoon

Evening

2. Thoughts/ Feelings Preference More Rational

More Emotional

3. Pacing Preference

Doing one thing at a time

Doing several things at once

4. Aesthetic Preference

Formal/ Orderly Setting

Informal/ Casual Setting

5. Tactile Preference

Does not require touching

Requires touching

6. Introversion/ Extroversion Preference

Learning alone

Learning with others

7. Relativism Preference

Viewing things in strict terms

Not viewing things in strict terms

8. Reasoning Preference

Studying deductively

Studying inductively

9. Modality Preference

Visual learner

Auditory learner

Gives a student direction on studying

Lessens incidents of procrastination

TIME TASK

7:00 – 8:00 PM Solve problems in Math

8:00 – 8:30 PM Review Notes on English

8:30 – 9:00 PM Facebook

9:00 – 10:00 PM Write essay about

Scheduling

10:00 PM Go to sleep

Make a schedule that fits your need.

Make the schedule flexible.

Schedule some time for leisure activities.

Experiment to discover the best times for

studying.

If you are studying two similar subjects,

insert a different subject in between.

Allow 5 to 10 minutes to prepare before

each class.

Schedule a weekly review time.

Color code the schedule.

Allow an average of two hours of study

for each hour you are in class.

Make a weekly schedule of your

activities including your study period.

Color-code your schedule and put your

legend at the bottom. Follow the format

below.

TIME SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT

5:00-5:30 AM

5:30-6:00 AM…

…9:30-10:00PM

One of the main factors that contribute

to the success of college students

Covey’s Time Management Matrix

› advocates the use of four quadrants to

determine the tasks you “need” to do and

deciding what should be made a priority.

Covey’s Time Management Matrix

Quadrant 1

› Important, urgent items

› items that need to be dealt with

immediately

Quadrant 2

› Important but not urgent

› items that are important but do not require your immediate attention, and need to be

planned for

Quadrant 3 › Urgent but not important

› items which should be minimized or eliminated

Quadrant 4 › Unimportant, not urgent

› items that don’t have to be done anytime soon, perhaps add little to no value and also should be minimized or eliminated.

› often time wasters

Identify the importance and urgency of each task. Place them in the proper quadrant.

A family member had an accident

Deadline for English 1 project

Exercising at the gym

Reviewing your career path

Maintaining relationships with friends

A phone call from a friend who wants to chitchat

A text: U want cake? Come and get ur part!

Mindless web browsing

Too much television/channel surfing for the sake of channel surfing

Reading FB Newsfeeds

Tips to Make the Best Use of Study Time (Sotiriou, 1996) › Never study with distractions.

› Do not begin studying if you are more concerned about something else.

› Try to divide your studying into one-hour blocks.

› After one hour is over, do something different.

› Devote some time during your study hours to reviewing what you have learned that day.

› Be sure to complete your reading assignments when they are assigned.

Guidelines to Make the most Effective

Use of Study Time (Glenn-Cowan, 1995)

› Study in short bursts of 20 to 30 minutes with a

5-minute break after each period.

› Experiment to find positions in which you

study best.

› Schedule study time when you are not very

tired.

› Assemble all materials needed before you

start to study.

Guidelines to Make the most Effective

Use of Study Time (Glenn-Cowan, 1995)

› If you have only an hour or two between

classes, go to the library or find an empty classroom, and use the time to study.

› Avoid temptations.

› If you have many distractions at home or in

your room, get out and study somewhere

else.

10 P’s of Time Management

› Planning – scheduling

› People – persons involved in doing the task

› Problems – personal and other worries

› Pressure – family, peer

› Practice – consistent use of time

management

10 P’s of Time Management

› Pace – rate or speed in doing tasks

› Prime time – doing tasks early

› Perfection – correcting mistakes committed in tasks

› Payoffs – rewards received for

accomplishing the task

› Progress – improvement in the effective use

of time and in doing tasks

5 Q’s of Time Management

› Quality – kind of time spent

› Quantity – amount of time consumed

› Quiet Time – period of rest or inactivity

› Question – the assessment of one’s use of

time

› Quit – the time to stop doing the tasks

Memorize the pictures in 2 minutes and

write on your notebook after the teacher’s

signal.

Memorize the words flashed in one minute.

EDIBLE

CREDIBLE

ABLE

PERMISSIBLE

TERRIBLE

AMENABLE

AMIABLE

PERDIBLE

Mastery subject matter is measured in

both recall and recognition tests

An indispensable part of student’s life

Acronyms

Acrostics/ Mnemonic

Key Words

Rhyme Keys

Association or Chaining

Gimmicks

Image-Names

Method of Loci

Index Method

Acronyms

› Putting together the initials of the words or

phrases in a series

› Examples:

Subjective PEMDAS

Objective ROYGBIV

Possessive

For 15 seconds, memorize the following

words using acronym technique. Write

your acronym and answer on your

notebook after the teacher’s signal.

ACCOMMODATE LIAISON

COMMIT EXCELLENT

DOG NOTICE

ARSON RELEVANT

Acrostics/ Mnemonic

› An invented sentence or poem with a first

letter cue

› Examples:

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Acrostics

Elizabeth (by Edgar Allan Poe)

Elizabeth it is in vain you say

"Love not" -- thou sayest it in so sweet a way:

In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.

Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:

Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,

Breath it less gently forth -- and veil thine eyes. Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried

To cure his love -- was cured of all beside --

His follie -- pride -- and passion -- for he died.

Make an acrostic of the Solar System

planets.

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us

Nothing

Key Words

› The initials of the most important words in the

sentences may be used to form a

meaningful word.

Example:

ANSHKASAWG

I am the Lord your God. Thou shall not adore strange gods before me.

Thou shall not take the Lord’s name in vain.

Keep holy the Sabbath day.

Honor your father and mother. Thou shall not kill.

Thou shall not commit adultery.

Thou shall not steal.

Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.

Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

Tips in Using Key Words

› Write down key words and phrases of your text

on a separate piece of paper.

› Combine these words or phrases into your own

sentences and compare with the original text

› Select a keyword or phrase that summarizes your

work and that will help you recall the information

› Create a mental image of the keyword, or even

create a story about the word to memorize

more detail of the original text.

Rhyme Keys

› Are words that rhyme with the words to be

memorized which may appear in ordered or

unordered list.

Example:

bun = one

shoe = two

tree = three

door = four

hive = five

Tips in Using Rhyme Keys

› Memorize key words that can be associated

with numbers or rhyming words.

› Create an image of the items you need to remember with key words.

Memorize as many words as you can in two minutes using rhyme keys. Write down as many words from the list as you can.

Nine Swap Cell Ring

Lust Plugs Lamp Apple Table Sway Army Bank

Fire Hold Worm Clock Horse Color Baby Sword

Desk Hold Find Bird

Association or Chaining

› Done by making a connection between or

among the items to be memorized or by

chaining theses items or words together.

› Creating a story where each word or idea

you have to remember cues the next idea

you need to recall.

Association or Chaining

Example:

Mao Zedong, eye, autograph, Beijing

Mao Zedong with one eye closed signed an autograph in Beijing, China.

Napoleon, ear, door, Germany

Napoleon with his ear to the door was

listening to people talk about Germany.

Memorize the following words in two

minutes using Association. Write the

words on your notebook.

Horse Orange Table

Teacher Apple Student

Gimmiks

› Are word games or tricks that trigger one’s

memory when the conventional learning

strategies have failed.

› Often used in remembering the spelling of

words.

Examples:

conscience – science with a con

fuchsia – if you see HS, I a.

Image-Name

› Visualization

› Attaching images to names

› Two ways:

1. Creating relationships between the name

and the physical characteristics of a person

2. Associating a place with a person

Image-Name

Example:

Shirley – curly hair

Isabelle – bell

Aaron – air gun

Tom – tom cat

Abby – a bee

Method of Loci

› Refer to position or locations

› Remembering items as they are situated on

a page or found in a drawing or an illustration

› Placing what you want to remember in a

familiar location

Remember these girls using the method

of loci.

Remember these girls using the method

of loci.

Girlie Tuscano Francia Lasam Ciara Uychoco

Index Method

› Use of index cards or flash cards in

memorizing numerical or pictorial items

Write YES if the statement applies to you and NO if it does not.

1. My mind wanders when I study.

2. I often take study breaks that are too long.

3. I often study for the same kinds of courses back to back.

4. I frequently fail to review my reading and study notes.

5. I often go to a lecture without having completed the reading assignment for it.

6. I become frustrated when I read difficult material.

7. I wait until the last day to study for my exams.

8. I wait until the last days to complete longer projects.

9. I look only at my test score when I get an exam back.

10. I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the stress school causes.

11. My study area is disorganized.

If your answer is YES in any number, write

on the things you can do to improve on

the item concerned.

Based on the memorization techniques

discussed, which among is/are

applicable to you? Discuss and cite

examples of how you can apply the

technique(s).