Study Tips: A collection of resources to help you with research, test-prep, and all-around being an awesome student
Reading strategically
Study Hacks
There's a good blog called "Study Hacks" which is focused on college, but which has lots of advice that applies to you guys. Here are some worthwhile posts:
Succeeding as a history student
Preparing for tests
- Dr. Patton's coding symbols for annotations - this is a google presentation - first page has a list of coding symbols, second has an example of a possible annotation that uses each symbol.
Study Hacks
There's a good blog called "Study Hacks" which is focused on college, but which has lots of advice that applies to you guys. Here are some worthwhile posts:
- The "Straight-A Method" of succeeding in college - Short post, that gives the heart of the "Study Hacks" philosophy
- Becoming a Zen Valedictorian: Decreasing your stress without decreasing your ambition (who DOESN'T want this?)
- Conquering "deep" procrastination
Succeeding as a history student
- A Student's Guide to the Study of History - This is all about how to succeed as a history student. Lots of information.
Preparing for tests
- Recent research on learning recommends taking hard tests early, as part of studying - click on the link to read the article and find out more.