0:00:00.170,0:00:07.049 Welcome to part three of organizing and[br]prioritizing your studies. This third and 0:00:07.049,0:00:11.309 final section will basically be[br]answering the question 'how to study' or 0:00:11.309,0:00:19.789 'how to study most effectively'. When do[br]you think is the best time to study? 0:00:20.689,0:00:25.260 Most people would suggest that you study early, sometime in the morning and 0:00:25.260,0:00:30.150 afternoon, perhaps between classes, when you have time. The reason is you would not 0:00:30.150,0:00:35.070 want to be studying late at night when you are more likely to be tired and less 0:00:35.070,0:00:40.110 likely to learn the material. Then the[br]next question would be where should you 0:00:40.110,0:00:46.680 study? Well, that could vary, but one thing[br]you definitely want to consider is 0:00:46.680,0:00:50.760 studying in isolation. You don't have to study in isolation all the times because 0:00:50.760,0:00:55.829 sometimes there could be study groups[br]that could be very beneficial and other 0:00:55.829,0:00:59.850 group study activities, but a lot of[br]times, at least most the time, you're 0:00:59.850,0:01:04.470 probably going to want to study in isolation. That way you're not distracted by other 0:01:04.470,0:01:10.080 people and you can focus on learning the[br]course material. Now how long do you 0:01:10.080,0:01:20.580 think you should study for at any given[br]time? The best answer is no more than 50 0:01:20.580,0:01:28.409 minutes stretch of studying. Now why is[br]that? We're gonna click on this link and 0:01:28.409,0:01:36.840 I'm going to show you this nice chart.[br]This is a great open-access textbook and 0:01:36.840,0:01:42.000 here we have this nice chart that talks[br]about the effects of massed versus 0:01:42.000,0:01:47.040 distributed practice on learning. [br]Massed means this big session here, 0:01:47.040,0:01:51.540 whereas these are more distributed. [br]You'll notice here we have three 0:01:51.540,0:01:56.040 different students. We have Leslie who[br]studies for a half hour, LeAnn who studies 0:01:56.040,0:02:00.570 for one hour, and Nora who studies for[br]four hours. We also have their grades 0:02:00.570,0:02:06.180 here.Who has the highest grade? Leslie[br]and that's because she's breaking up the 0:02:06.180,0:02:09.750 tasks of studying into smaller tasks. Now a B is still a pretty good grade, so 0:02:09.750,0:02:13.770 that's why we say no more than fifteen[br]minutes on our slide. 0:02:13.770,0:02:18.810 You may want to consider studying for[br]smaller amounts of time and then taking 0:02:18.810,0:02:24.180 a break. Some of that may be, as I[br]have heard, that we tend to remember the 0:02:24.180,0:02:28.640 first and the last thing, so Leslie has[br]more first and last to remember than 0:02:28.640,0:02:34.140 Leanne and Norah does; therefore, she[br]learns more of the material and is able 0:02:34.140,0:02:40.230 to get a higher grade. Once you[br]study for 50 minutes then you should 0:02:40.230,0:02:43.538 take a break. How long should your[br]breaks be? 0:02:43.538,0:02:45.450 Usually 5 or 10 minutes is 0:02:45.450,0:02:49.110 good. Of course if you have other things[br]that are scheduled on your calendar and 0:02:49.110,0:02:55.710 task list you may end up doing it or having[br]a longer break sometimes. What should 0:02:55.710,0:03:00.090 you do when you study? Well, the big thing is is you should pre-plan what you will 0:03:00.090,0:03:05.130 do during study time. Usually when[br]we're talking about study time we're 0:03:05.130,0:03:09.720 including reading, course assignments,[br]completing assignments, as well as doing 0:03:09.720,0:03:14.730 review for quizzes and exams and[br]practicing recalling and retrieving 0:03:14.730,0:03:23.670 information from your own memory.[br]We're gonna look at another chart to 0:03:23.670,0:03:29.910 help understand why the studying and[br]review is important. Let me find the 0:03:29.910,0:03:39.209 right one. For some reason it's not[br]showing up, so we won't be able to use 0:03:39.209,0:03:44.940 this one. Let me bring another one up. Let[br]me just go to Google and bring up 0:03:44.940,0:03:48.560 another - I didn't want the calendar - 0:03:56.920,0:04:00.940 Here's another one that[br]illustrates the same purposes I want to 0:04:00.940,0:04:06.010 show you. Once you learn something[br]you almost immediately 0:04:06.010,0:04:12.310 start to forget what you learned.[br]If you're learning/reading chapter 0:04:12.310,0:04:16.600 one and four weeks later you have to take[br]an exam you're not going to 0:04:16.600,0:04:21.190 remember much of it, but if you review,[br]then you're going to remember more of it 0:04:21.190,0:04:25.030 and forget less of it. Each one of[br]these different colors is a review 0:04:25.030,0:04:28.840 session, so you see, if you 0:04:28.840,0:04:32.470 review then you have forgotten less. You[br]review again, you've forgotten even less 0:04:32.470,0:04:37.150 and you review more now you're going to[br]retain more of the information. That's 0:04:37.150,0:04:41.530 why review is important because you need to battle this forgetting curve that 0:04:41.530,0:04:47.080 just naturally occurs in humans. You[br]do that by studying and reviewing the 0:04:47.080,0:04:52.419 course material, so you're forgetting[br]less of it and you'll have more learned, 0:04:52.419,0:05:00.760 so you're ready to do that on the quiz[br]or exam. Some more study tips. These come 0:05:00.760,0:05:05.680 from "How to Win at College: Surprising[br]Secrets for Success from the Country's 0:05:05.680,0:05:09.100 Top Students" by Cal Newport which is[br]available in the library with another 0:05:09.100,0:05:14.340 book of his as well. What Cal Newport[br]did, is he went to Harvard, and he 0:05:14.340,0:05:18.520 interviewed lots of students - good[br]students - who were getting good grades, 0:05:18.520,0:05:23.200 who were successful to figure out what[br]were they doing so he could then do it 0:05:23.200,0:05:28.870 himself and be a successful student. [br]He had found that students have a plan, 0:05:28.870,0:05:32.919 which is what we just talked about on[br]the last slide as well, but those 0:05:32.919,0:05:37.660 students plan out what, how, and how long, you know those chunks of time that 0:05:37.660,0:05:42.910 they're going to study before they take[br]a break. He also finds that successful 0:05:42.910,0:05:47.350 students would schedule free time and[br]friend time, but they would not do it in 0:05:47.350,0:05:51.010 between classes and that's because they[br]didn't want to get distracted. They would 0:05:51.010,0:05:55.300 use that time in between classes to[br]review work from class because, you can 0:05:55.300,0:05:58.570 see, if you review something after[br]class you're going to remember more of 0:05:58.570,0:06:02.280 it than if you waited to review. So[br]they're starting that review process 0:06:02.280,0:06:07.240 early. They start studying in[br]weeks in advance. They don't wait until 0:06:07.240,0:06:12.490 the night before an exam[br]to then study all the course material. 0:06:12.490,0:06:16.300 They they do it in chunks throughout the[br]semester. Another thing students do is 0:06:16.300,0:06:20.559 they find a productive study spaces.[br]Study spaces where they could study 0:06:20.559,0:06:26.199 and learn and get assignments done.[br]They would usually study alone. Many 0:06:26.199,0:06:29.529 of them would have secret study spaces,[br]because they didn't want friends to find 0:06:29.529,0:06:31.839 them,[br]because they know it's easy for a friend 0:06:31.839,0:06:36.490 to come along and say 'hey let's go grab[br]a coffee' and usually that sounds like 0:06:36.490,0:06:40.150 more fun than studying in some cases.[br]They didn't want to be enticed, so they 0:06:40.150,0:06:43.810 had secret spaces that they wouldn't[br]even tell their best friend about just 0:06:43.810,0:06:48.159 so they can get their studying done.[br]Another thing that successful students 0:06:48.159,0:06:52.900 did is they did coursework every day of[br]the week. Remember earlier when we looked 0:06:52.900,0:06:56.889 at that block schedule and we had[br]nothing blocked out for study time on 0:06:56.889,0:07:01.419 Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? A[br]successful student going to Harvard that 0:07:01.419,0:07:07.449 Cal Newport may have interviewed [br]said that they do coursework every day. 0:07:07.449,0:07:10.839 They never take a day off. They do[br]something, maybe they don't do a lot, but 0:07:10.839,0:07:15.370 they do something. Those students[br]there would also start big projects the 0:07:15.370,0:07:20.169 day that they are assigned. You get an[br]essay that you have to write, you start 0:07:20.169,0:07:22.839 something that night. You don't have to[br]have a full draft. Maybe they just 0:07:22.839,0:07:27.370 brainstorm an outline or if you have a[br]big research project they might use 0:07:27.370,0:07:31.060 one of those assignment calculators and[br]break those chunks down. They, at 0:07:31.060,0:07:34.689 least, take the first step as soon as[br]they get started so they're not 0:07:34.689,0:07:37.629 surprised when time gets away from them. 0:07:37.629,0:07:40.899 They take those big assignments and they break it down into 0:07:40.899,0:07:44.589 smaller tasks. If you had to write a[br]short paper, instead of doing it all in 0:07:44.589,0:07:47.919 one day, they would do it in three. They might brainstorm an outline, 0:07:47.919,0:07:51.430 then they would draft, and then they[br]would spend the next night revising it, 0:07:51.430,0:07:56.050 and then they would be able to turn in a[br]good quality project. They had also set 0:07:56.050,0:08:00.550 arbitrary deadlines. These aren't[br]deadlines that your teacher sets. These 0:08:00.550,0:08:05.319 are deadlines that they give themselves.[br]Possibly to break up these big projects 0:08:05.319,0:08:09.870 into smaller tasks or take three days[br]to write a short paper and they would 0:08:09.870,0:08:14.259 make sure those deadlines they probably[br]write them in a calendar most likely to 0:08:14.259,0:08:18.789 make sure that they're getting all of[br]those done. So that right there are a 0:08:18.789,0:08:23.750 bunch of great study tips that will[br]hopefully help you. This is a list 0:08:23.750,0:08:28.460 of our sources, so you would want to[br]click on just the Google slides to 0:08:28.460,0:08:32.719 review and then you can click on these[br]and go to them as well as any other ones 0:08:32.719,0:08:38.900 that you saw throughout the presentation.[br]I hope at this point, as a result of 0:08:38.900,0:08:43.310 watching all three parts of Organizing[br]and Prioritizing Your Studies, that 0:08:43.310,0:08:47.120 you hopefully are becoming more aware[br]of how you manage your time. That you're 0:08:47.120,0:08:51.200 able to list some options for managing[br]time and study tasks. If you don't 0:08:51.200,0:08:56.720 remember what those are, check out part 2 and to list the best amount of time to 0:08:56.720,0:09:01.190 study before taking a break. That was in[br]part 3. If you're not sure what that is, 0:09:01.190,0:09:06.530 you may want to review that now. If you[br]have any questions, please post to the 0:09:06.530,0:09:14.600 discussion post in the Academic Success[br]canvas course. Find the module Organizing 0:09:14.600,0:09:18.860 and Prioritizing Your Studies and you[br]can ask questions there as well as share 0:09:18.860,0:09:23.630 what works well for you. When we do[br]this workshop in person students love 0:09:23.630,0:09:28.190 hearing what other students do well and[br]it gives them ideas and allows them to 0:09:28.190,0:09:32.089 talk and share. You don't have to[br]take the survey since you're online, but 0:09:32.089,0:09:36.230 you may want to take the quiz to, again,[br]test your knowledge about what you've 0:09:36.230,0:09:43.510 learned as a result of watching these[br]videos. Have a great day.