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Study Tips: A collection of resources to help you with research, test-prep, and all-around being an awesome student

Reading strategically
  • 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. 


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