10 Rules of Good and Bad Study
10 Rules of Studying These rules form a synthesis of some of the main ideas of the course--they are excerpted from the book A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra) , by Barbara Oakley, Penguin, July, 2014. Feel free to copy these rules and redistribute them, as long as you keep the original wording and this citation. 10 Rules of Good Studying Use recall. After you read a page, look away and recall the main ideas. Highlight very little, and never highlight anything you haven’t put in your mind first by recalling. Try recalling main ideas when you are walking to class or in a different room from where you originally learned it. An ability to recall—to generate the ideas from inside yourself—is one of the key indicators of good learning. Test yourself. On everything. All the time. Flash cards are your friend. Chunk your problems. Chunking is understanding and practicing with a problem solution so that it can all come to mind in a flash. After you...