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Recorded lectures let you speed up, rewind and watch any time, and that very convenience leads many students to watch a lot and remember little. How to use spee
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You can solve every end-of-chapter problem, yet when real data or a real situation poses the same problem in different clothes, you do not recognise it. How to
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Plenty of well-prepared students still blank when they see the paper. Anxiety crowds out working memory, exactly what you need to solve problems. Research-backe
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A study group can be the best session of your week, or three hours of chatting while one person lectures everyone else. The difference lies in preparation, clea
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Most students read the grade, skim the comments and file the essay away. Feedback only has value if it changes the next piece of work. How to sort comments, kee
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Sketching a process as a diagram forces decisions about what connects to what, decisions that reading text never demands. How to match the right kind of visual
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Students routinely misjudge their exam performance, and the weakest are often the most confident. How to train your self-assessment so revision time goes to wha
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Novices learn to solve problems faster by studying good solutions than by struggling alone. Past a certain point, though, the same solutions start to get in the
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If you follow every sentence but cannot say why any of it is true once the book is closed, you have memorised, not understood. Self-explanation turns each passa
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An all-nighter feels like maximum effort, but the material you cram never gets the chance to be stored. Here is how sleep consolidates memory and how to plan re
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Visual versus auditory learners, the learning pyramid, left-brain and right-brain people, Mozart for brainpower. These ideas spread because they sound right. Wh
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Procrastination is rarely laziness. It is usually a way of dodging an unpleasant feeling: a vague task, fear of doing it badly, or not seeing the point. Knowing
