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LinkedIn Learning

Learning Study Skills

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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Get tips for improving your reading speed and memory, creating detailed notes, and preparing for tests.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
  • Using the challenges
1. Ramp Up Your Reading
  • How fast do you currently read?
  • Using your hand to guide your eyes
  • Reading faster on a computer screen
  • Boosting your reading speed with simple practice drills
  • Improving your reading comprehension through speed variability
  • Dealing with charts and diagrams
2. Improve Your Note-Taking Skills
  • Note-taking for linear vs. nonlinear concepts
  • Avoiding excessive highlighting and note taking
  • Taking notes with the Cornell system
3. Techniques for Enhancing Your Memory
  • Understanding how your memory works
  • Remembering better using the multiple reading process
  • Memorizing new vocabulary using the similar sound technique
  • Using mnemonic devices
  • Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration
  • Using pictures to improve your memory
  • The link system
  • Memory palaces and the method of loci
  • Numeric peg system: Linking numbers to pictures
  • Numeric peg system: Memorizing a 10-item list
  • Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items
  • Remembering important dates
  • Memorizing formulas and equations
  • Challenge 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary
  • Solution 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary
  • Challenge 2: Create a memory palace
  • Solution 2: Create a memory palace
4. Score Better on Tests
  • Creating a study plan
  • Reviewing your notes and re-reading
  • Taking strategic breaks while studying
  • Scoring better on reading tests
  • Tips for the day of the exam
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Paul Nowak

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