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One of the changes you no doubt have found as you moved into the junior-high years is that you are expected to study a great deal more on your own. You have more homework, and you have longer assignments than you did in earlier years. Some of these assignments may not be for your next class meeting but may be given for a week or even a month or so in advance. As a result you will have to learn how to study and how to plan in advance for things you must do.
Find a Good Place to Study
Find a comfortable, fairly quiet place where the lighting is good and where you can spread out your books and papers.
Try to have at hand the books, pencils, pen, paper, ruler, dictionary, and other materials you are likely to need in your studying.
Try to have at hand the books, pencils, pen, paper, ruler, dictionary, and other materials you are likely to need in your studying.
Be Clear about the Nature and Purpose of Assignment
Write down your assignments in a regular place, preferably in a notebook. If the assignment is not clear to you, ask a teacher about it before you start it. Be sure to put the date when the assignment is due.
Think about the purpose of the assignment before you start to work. Ask yourself, “What am I to learn from this?” or “What are the main things I am to do or to find out?”
Think about the purpose of the assignment before you start to work. Ask yourself, “What am I to learn from this?” or “What are the main things I am to do or to find out?”
Adopt Good Study Habits
In a reading assignment, try reading the whole lesson quickly to see what it is all about. Once you get the main ideas, reread the material more carefully and fill in important details. If the assignment seems awfully long, break it up in to small parts and tackle one part at a time.
Spend time after reading some lesson to think over what you have read. See if you can tell about it in your own words.
Keep trying to see the importance of what you are studying and to think of real-life examples of the things you are reading about.
If the assignment has been a written one, always check your finished work with the assignment directions to be sure you have done what you were asked to do.
Look for chances to talk over with others the things you have been studying.
Spend time after reading some lesson to think over what you have read. See if you can tell about it in your own words.
Keep trying to see the importance of what you are studying and to think of real-life examples of the things you are reading about.
If the assignment has been a written one, always check your finished work with the assignment directions to be sure you have done what you were asked to do.
Look for chances to talk over with others the things you have been studying.
Work on Learning to Concentrate
Try to keep your mind on what you are doing. Do not take too much time out of daydream about the party on Friday, the new sweater you want, and so on.
Stay with the job. Do not hop up and down to do things you suddenly think about or to make telephone calls. These can wait.
Give yourself a break. Do your homework early enough in the afternoon or evening to avoid being tired out before you start.
Stay with the job. Do not hop up and down to do things you suddenly think about or to make telephone calls. These can wait.
Give yourself a break. Do your homework early enough in the afternoon or evening to avoid being tired out before you start.
Learn to Plan Ahead
If you have time for study in school, decide which work you can do best in school and which would be better to save for doing at home. Work that you find difficult may best be done when you teacher for that subject is available to help you.
Study your hardest subject first, when you are still fresh.
Allot the time you have for study among the assignments you must cover. Try to keep to your time limits whenever possible.
Divide you assignment into parts – those are due the next day and those that are due later on. Then plan your daily work so that you have some time set aside for working on each of your assignments.
Do your daily work first. If you cannot cover it and long-term assignment in evening study, set aside a definite time on weekends for long-term assignments. Do some experimenting to find out when you work best, morning, afternoon, or evening, or just before or just after meals. When possible, schedule your studying for such times.
Make use of small periods of time. You can sometimes accomplish a lot in 15 minutes.
Study your hardest subject first, when you are still fresh.
Allot the time you have for study among the assignments you must cover. Try to keep to your time limits whenever possible.
Divide you assignment into parts – those are due the next day and those that are due later on. Then plan your daily work so that you have some time set aside for working on each of your assignments.
Do your daily work first. If you cannot cover it and long-term assignment in evening study, set aside a definite time on weekends for long-term assignments. Do some experimenting to find out when you work best, morning, afternoon, or evening, or just before or just after meals. When possible, schedule your studying for such times.
Make use of small periods of time. You can sometimes accomplish a lot in 15 minutes.
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