Study Prof

I tell my students to learn at least 300 new words, but that is really the bare minimum. Why? It takes at least that many before you have a snowball’s chance in H-E-double-hockey-sticks of seeing enough of them on the test to actually nudge up your score.

Consider, if the GRE or SAT has 4,500 possible vocabulary words to choose from (a rough guesstimate), and you see, say, 150 on any given verbal section, what are the chances that one of the 300 new words you studied will be among them? (more…)

Studies show that simply tracking how many times you engage in a good habit (or sideslip a bad habit) will cause most people to up those numbers. How simple is that?! So start tallying up those push ups, timing your study hours, and counting your calories, to become master of your domain!

Amble on over to this nifty site for tracking your trends. Enter absolutely anything you want–number of periwinkle blue caravans you’ve narrowly avoided purchasing, amount of salmon mousse consumed with no lethal effects, quantity of fleshy-headed mutants you’ve found friendly, total number of obscure movie references you’ve noticed in this post, whatever–and the site will keep track of it and allow you to display it in a variety of tres-hip ways.

This could save you some time on the GRE or SAT…

Cool Math Trick – Really Fast Multiplication !!! – Funny blooper videos are here

I’ve expanded and updated my SECRETS SMART STUDENTS KNOW ebook. You can find out all about it here…

Discover all the simple tricks and techniques to learn more in less time, give you a memory like a steel trap, beat procrastination cold, avoid test anxiety, and get the BEST GRADES EVER!

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It’s the new, expanded second edition. I’ve added lot’s more on test anxiety, procrastination, and memory techniques. (Already a member? Just go download it again … you’ll automatically get the new version!).

Check your grammar, style, and spelling with After The Deadline, a free online tool. Just paste your writing into the box and After The Deadline will underline words or phrases that need a closer look. Click on the word or phrase for suggestions and explanations. This would be a great way to revise those rough drafts.

At http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ they have an online stopwatch and timer, but you can also download them as flash programs.  Need more than one stopwatch/timer running at a time? You can launch multiple instances of the flash program. A must have for timing those study sessions. And all for the low, low price of FREE.

Before you consider “embellishing” a little on your resume – or worse, flat-out lying about something like having a college degree or working for a particular employer – peruse this article. It could save you loads o’ heartache. (more…)

If you think that excellent students read everything they are assigned for their college classes, think again. The best students know what material to read thoroughly, what material to skim, and what material to skip altogether. That saves them a lot of time and a lot of mental effort, since they aren’t focusing their attention and studying on materials that won’t be on the test.

Think about readings from the prof’s perspective. In general, it costs a professor very little to assign you a given reading. As they assemble their syllabi, it takes them all of thirty seconds to type “Read War and Peace, by Tolstoy, for the March 2nd class.” Doing the reading, however, will take you days! Assigning it (more…)