How to Learn Most Effectively: 7 Learning Techniques That Can Change Your Life

Author: Allen Mondale
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: A bestseller in the U.S. for 50 years, revised 5 times, with over 30,000,000 copies sold! Learn more and remember more in less time! This is a student guide that shows you proven, experimentally validated learning methods to help you learn more in limited time, achieve better results, and achieve twice the result with half the effort. Seven life-changing learning techniques that will tell you how to make the most of your study time and suggest how to learn difficult subjects like mathematics and English. These seven learning techniques are: the skill of efficient reading, the skill of effectively preparing for exams, the skill of effectively learning foreign languages, the skill of effectively taking notes, the skill of effectively utilizing memory patterns, the skill of effectively using computers and the internet to assist learning, and the skill of effectively managing time. Taking reading techniques as an example, most people's reading speed has room for improvement. A student reading a simple textbook typically reads at a speed of 200-300 words per minute, and this speed can be greatly improved. Moreover, as reading speed increases, your eye movement speed will also improve. Professor Walter from the Learning Research Center at Cornell University once summarized note-taking into five basic points (5Rs), and this book will also teach you how to effectively take notes based on these five points. Additionally, there are solutions based on the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to help students maximize their memory. Besides, you will also learn how to organize study interest groups, how to utilize various campus services, how to adjust and adapt to academic life, self-assess learning motivation, student aptitude tests, intellectual rebuttals, the ratio of in-class and out-of-class learning, and true-or-false exam strategies, etc. A learning guide that has been a bestseller in the U.S. for 50 years, revised 5 times, and sold over 30,000,000 copies, is about to enter your life. Seven life-changing learning techniques that will tell you how to make the most of your study time and suggest how to learn difficult subjects like mathematics and English. These seven learning techniques are: the skill of efficient reading, the skill of effectively preparing for exams, the skill of effectively learning foreign languages, the skill of effectively taking notes, the skill of effectively utilizing memory patterns, the skill of effectively using computers and the internet to assist learning, and the skill of effectively managing time. Taking reading techniques as an example, most people's reading speed has room for improvement. A student reading a simple textbook typically reads at a speed of 200-300 words per minute, and this speed can be greatly improved. Moreover, as reading speed increases, your eye movement speed will also improve. Professor Walter from the Learning Research Center at Cornell University once summarized note-taking into five basic points (5Rs), and this book will also teach you how to effectively take notes based on these five points. Additionally, there are solutions based on the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to help students maximize their memory. Besides, you will also learn how to organize study interest groups, how to utilize various campus services, how to adjust and adapt to academic life, self-assess learning motivation, student aptitude tests, intellectual rebuttals, the ratio of in-class and out-of-class learning, and true-or-false exam strategies, etc.