HOMEWORK Tests Speeches Papers Does it sometimes feel like you face an endless list of tasks to complete for school And why To make your teachers happy Well yes completing your work is likely to make your teachers happy But that is not the only reason teachers assign work Believe it or not writing papers taking tests and mak ing speeches benefits you too Every time you complete one of these tasks you learn something more about how to do it and you become more pre pared to do it again in the future in high school college and even possibly your career But more than that these tasks teach you how to learn how to study how to find information and how to present your viewpoint And such skills will help you not only in the classroom but also in
Study habits for example teach you how to set priorities how to manage your time how to recognize important information and how to re member facts and ideas And those are skills that can be employed through out your entire life from keeping track of your schedule for babysitting jobs sports practices and friends birthday parties to figuring out the important points in your mom s lecture about why you should keep our room clean But what are good study habits When do you need to use them O And how do you get them Learning the answers to these questions will help you become the kind of orga nized prepared student that makes any teacher happy and it will teach you some thing in the
CIAPTER ONE CELEBRATING STUDY SKILLS hen you think of study habits can you expect to remember it you might think of pulling out Ultimately when you learn good your notebook the night before a study habits you are learning how to test and skimming over all the notes learn And the sooner you do that the you've taken in the last few weeks better because there will never be a Well reviewing notes ideally soon time in your life when you can say'm er than the night before a test is done and just stop learning Unfortu certainly a part of studying But nately few schools spend time teach study habits actually encompass two ing study habits such as time man separate but related ideas learning agement prioritizing note taking and new information comes first and creating memory tools These skills remembering that information comes tend to be something that you have second After all if you've never re to pick up along the way and if you ally learned a concept not just read don't you'll likely find that learning about it or heard about it but really becomes more and more challenging understood it in the first place how as you progress through high school
