The Power of Study Groups

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Getting the Most Out of a Session

Here are some tips to help your group get the most out of each study session:

·         Decide what you’re going to do in advance.

·         Prepare for the session, so you can make the most of your time together.

·         Take turns teaching, to reinforce your own knowledge.

·         Stick to the session topic

By supplementing your individual study with a study group, you can reinforce what you’ve learned, deepen your understanding of complex concepts, and maybe even make a few new friends. Remember that a friend is a person who encourages you to do your best and achieve on your high level, one who pushes you to try a little harder and be a little better. If someone pulls you down the wrong trails of life, then those people aren’t your friends, (they are actually your enemies), and you must avoid them at all cost. Whoever said learning can’t be fun? Learning is enjoyable and exciting when you study with others.

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The Power of Study Groups

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The Benefits of Study Groups

Group study offers other advantages in addition to gaining a deeper understanding of class material. These include the opportunity to reinforce note-taking. If you AP® Biology notes are unclear, you can ask a member of your study group to help you fill in the gaps. Share talents. Each person brings different strengths, such as organizational skills, the ability to stick to a task or capacity for memorization.

Cover more ground. Group members may be able to solve a calculus problem together that none would have solved alone.

Benefit from a support system. Members often have common goals, such as good grades. Each person’s work affects the other members, which results in making members supportive of one another. Socialize. It’s more fun to study with others; the give-and-take makes it more interesting. And because it’s more fun, you spend more time studying.

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Student Success Statement

Goals

"In life as in football, you won't go far, unless you know where the goalposts are."

Arnold Glasgow

I think this quote is the true because we need set goals in our life to guide us. We cant just go in any direction and expect to be successful in something you havent planed for. You need to know what do you want to do. No one could tell you not to do wat your goals are unless there illegal or unethical. 

The Power of Study Groups

Part 1

Working Together Helps Everyone

You may have noticed that when you’re explaining something you’ve learned to a friend, you begin to understand it better yourself better. This happens because, when you explain an idea, you thing deeply more about it.

The same principle makes study groups useful. Studying with others in small groups is helpful because you:

·       Think out loud.

·       Share ideas.

·       Learn from one another.

In an effective study group, you and other students hash out lesson materials together – explaining concepts, arguing about them, figuring out why one person’s answer differ from another’s – and in the process, you most likely learn more than you would have studying by yourself.

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Walk The Talk

The video was saying that we should do what we think is right according to our beliefs and not to do what ever others are doing and not to follow the crowd. It said to be honest and dependable. It said that we should do whats right rather than whats in.

Student Success Statement

"Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."

- Albert A. Montapert

The statement above is true because you could never escape the consequences of your life. If you choose the right the positive consequences we be rewarded to you. But if you choose the wrong you will be held accountable for your actions and will be punished.

How to Take on College Studying

Part 3

Do the Reading

You need to do more than just read the chapters you are assigned – you’re expected to understand them thoroughly. Here are some tips:

·       Don’t skim. Read all the material carefully.

·       Break up difficult assignments into sections you can digest – chapters, subsections, or even paragraphs.

·       Look up any words that you don’t understand.

·       Pause to think about whether you understand the material; ask questions in class about anything that is unclear.

·       Take notes instead of highlighting – this makes you think through and rephrase the key points.

·       Create a summary sheet of what you learned from each assignment you read.

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