College Study Techniques

This post is going to be on college study techniques.

What are study techniques?

Study techniques are something we all use, but we never consciously think about them.

When you sit down and start studying, you are using a study technique. If you aren’t getting good grades despite studying furiously, it means that your study technique isn’t as effective and efficient as it should be.

Nobody ever really teaches us what study techniques we have to use. In fact, most of us don’t even study until we reach high school or college. From there, we are at a loss because we don’t actually know how to study.

Here are a few college study techniques posts that you need to check out before you start studying.

1 – How to Study Using the PQRST Method

PQRST, like you might have guessed, every letter stands for a word, and when you use all these action words to study, then you have a high chance of information retention. Here is what each of the letters of PQRST stand for:

                P – PREVIEW

                Q – QUESTION

                R – READ

                S – SUMMARY

                T – TEST

2 – How to Study Using the REAP Method

REAP is a method of studying that can help you when you are studying for an exam or just studying for every day. So, what is REAP?

REAP is an acronym, which means every letter of the word stands for a different word. Here they are:

Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder

3 – How to Improve Your Memory for Studying 10 Memory Boosting Tips for Studying

Students always want to know how to improve memory for studying. I have some good news for you. I have created a list of some memory boosting tips for studying that you might have never heard of before.

Of course, I had to start the list with some stuff you have to get out of the way before you try memorizing. Like eating memory boosting foods and getting enough sleep!

But after those important factors, I begin to tell you the juicy memory boosting techniques for studying.

4 – How to Study Smarter, not Harder Using 80/20 Rule

Have you ever heard of the Pareto Principle? No? How about the 80/20 rule? They are one and the same. This is a rule that says that 80% of the result you get comes from 20% of the effort you give. This is from Wikipedia: The 80/20 rule is an axiom of business management that “80% of sales come from 20% of clients. This means if you aren’t giving the right kind of effort, you’re probably not get 80% of what you want.

5 – How to Study in College

When I started college, I told myself that I was going to my best. I gave myself a pep talk. I committed to studying well and getting awesome grades. I made the intention to study and understand everything in my classes, and to be at the top of the class.

Intention matters a lot. Set out your intentions. They give your brain a picture of where you want to go. It just sits there at the back of your head, seemingly dormant, but all your decisions are influenced by that seemingly useless intention.

Those were the 5 College Study Techniques

I compiled this list of all the study techniques that you will need for college. Be sure to click through to read each and every one, because there are loads of techniques included in every one of the posts.