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If you haven’t been introduced to SparkNotes yet, then it’s time you met one of your new best friends. Sparknotes is an excellent student resource that can turn the baroque language of Shakespeare, or the often complex and difficult language of academic texts, into English that is easier to manage. Sparknotes has been helping students for the past 13 years!
You know that old familiar feeling: your heart pounds, your breath accelerates, and forget butterflies – you’ve got bald eagles barreling around your insides! There must be a test in the near future.
There are 10 things you can do before a test to help alleviate test anxiety and absorb the information needed to achieve your target score. The ability to remain calm and centered, in the midst of testing jitters, is equally important as accessing the brilliant knowledge stored in your brain. If you practice these “10 Things To Do Before A Test,” you’ll begin to see your test scores rise.
Reading a chapter correctly takes a lot more time than you probably spend on it now, but try this SQ3R method for just one class. Slowly add this system into your other classes too. Be patient and give this method 2 weeks to make a difference. At first, you’ll spend a lot of time on this. Remember: you can study a lot of hours over the course of the semester or you can study all of those hours the week before your final.
We have previously highlighted some of the advances that are being made in eLearning. Recently Khan Academy caught our eye. It’s a website that sports over 2200 videos covering a large variety of topics from math, physics, chemistry, finance, world history and many many more.
Having a solid vocabulary is an indispensable tool for success for any person in their academic or professional career. Undoubtedly, the best way to increase your vocab would be to read challenging literature, but let’s face it: in today’s world sometimes it’s hard to find the time or the patience. Sadly, with the huge internet boom many people have replaced their time reading real “vocab-building” literature, with surfing the internet. While your average individual might end up reading the same quantity of words, the quality of the material read leaves a lot to be desired, as most websites aren’t thinking in terms of reading difficulty or vocabulary-building and usually won’t quite challenge a third-grader.
Idioms are linguistic conventions in which certain words go with certain other words, and English is a particularly idiomatic language. Kids usually learn idioms in the sixth grade, and then forget about them until they have to study for the GMAT and other such tests.
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