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Start Smart
- go to class regularly
- buy the textbook and/or course package
- read the course outline carefully
- get to know your professor
Keep Up: Study Smart
- learn as you go: review notes regularly, keep up with your reading
- test yourself often, fill gaps in your understanding and clarify info as you go
- be selective - focus on the most important ideas
- know how many hours a week you have to spend on school work and try to make tasks fit into the time that you have
- don't be a perfectionist: just do it!
- deal with procrastination
Get the Big Picture
- organize ideas in your notes after each lecture; map the main ideas
- check the Table of Contents of your text to see how ideas are organized
- organize problems by "families" of problems: concept +variations
- eventually, try to organize your whole course on 1 piece of paper
Talk a Lot
- soon after a lecture, explain/teach the main points out loud
- summarize in your own words the main ideas of each section right after reading it in your text
- review a chapter by talking your way through the headings in the Table of Contents
- after doing a problem, summarize the procedure in words
- discuss course ideas with others as often as you can
- form a study group
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