Increase Your Memory Is it really possible to increase your memory? Are you a forgetful person? Do you ever spend thirty or so minutes reading something, only to forget the majority of the material you read by the time you close the book? Think your memory is a lost cause? Think again. There are plenty of ways […]
Which matters more: my SAT scores or grade point average?
The short answer is grade point average. But it’s really not a short answer. It’s not a short question, even. It’s a difficult, complicated, messy question and answer that we have no ability to answer definitively. But we’ll try to make a case for a few reasons why your grade point average is probably more […]
Three Steps to Avoiding the Monday Blues
Why do we hate Monday (other than the fact that it is five days from Friday)? Mondays are rough because as we look at the week ahead of us, we see so many things we don’t necessarily want to do—but have to do—and we don’t even know where to start. We get overwhelmed, stressed, and […]
Accelerate productivity with 3 time management tips every student can use
If you’ve been reading along our student time management series, hopefully you’ll have benefited from some of the time management tips we’ve discussed. We’ve redefined time management — it’s really task management. We’ve talked about how important it really is. And we’ve shown you a task-sifting time management strategy that even the best students can […]
Student time management strategies: 3 lessons learned at the ER
Most of us probably don’t think of the emergency room as a classroom. That’s probably good. Ideally we’ll all spend the least amount of time possible at the ER. My family tries to limit our trips to once or twice a year. We hit our quota for 2013 – we’ll see how this year goes. […]
Why “good time management” has little to do with time
Good time management skills are often a topic of study skills conversations. But what are we talking about really? You can’t manage time. In the words of the great Steve Miller Band, “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’, into the future…” We talked about this briefly in our last post on student time management. We […]
3 Study-boosting Benefits of Exercise for Students
Picture this scenario: It’s the night before a big test. You need to have a productive study session in order to feel ready for the exam. You lay out your notes, textbooks, flashcards and study guide on the table. You flip open your notes. Then it hits you: the Tired Bug. How do you shake […]
Student Time Management: Why this study skill sets the top 5% apart
Student time management is an enormous part of a great study skills approach. If you have no strategy for managing time as a student, you’re unlikely to have a great strategy for managing time later in life. And it’s just about as important a study skill as there is. Thus we’re bringing you a short […]