Note-taking is more than just jotting down important points. Note-taking is a useful technique that helps arrange information in a logical or sequential order, which helps simplify complicated concepts. If you want to be an ace note-taker, it will take a lot of practice. A few useful tips can nudge you in the right direction.
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Lecture Notes: Useful Tips to Help College Students Take Notes
Taking notes in class is an art. Knowing how to take notes is a useful skill to have when you’re in college. Note-taking helps sharpen your memory by improving your ability to recollect. Taking notes also helps promote your ability to understand. Lecture notes can make good study material, which can help you learn more
6 Effective Ways to Manage Stress While Remote Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a major source of worry and anxiety for students. Students the world over are grappling with uncertainty while trying to find ways to cope with various challenges that remote learning presents. Everyday distractions at home are not only testing students’ patience but are also adding to their stress. If you
How to Narrow Down on a Research Topic
Choosing a research topic is often more difficult than conducting the research itself. It requires careful deliberation and proper planning because the course of your whole research depends on you picking a good topic in the first place. A good research topic is precise, practical, and also something that answers important questions and helps in
How to Keep Your Grades Up in College During Quarantine
Like most college students across the world right now, you are probably studying at home and preparing for your end-of-term examinations. While keeping up with your studies during a global pandemic can be quite challenging, it is important to not let these distractions lead to a drop in your GPA. It can be difficult keeping
How to Take Good Study Notes
Taking notes is an essential part of college life. Without good notes, it is difficult to retain and understand everything you learn during class. An effective note-taking process can help you concentrate and absorb information better during a lecture as well as make revision and referencing later that much easier. Well-structured and organized notes also
How To Self Study During the Coronavirus Quarantine Part 2
While the world reels under this COVID-19 outbreak, schools and universities across the world are among the various institutes that need to be shut down. For students, that either means a long, indefinite vacation, or a pile of assignments and self study portions. As we have seen in our previous article, How To Self Study
How to Self Study During the Coronavirus Quarantine
With the world in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, many everyday things we’ve taken for granted have become challenges. With social distancing becoming today’s new normal, the way we live our life must necessarily undergo some drastic changes while, at the same time, we continue to move forward with our essential work. This is
Celebrating Black History Month in College
February is Black History Month, and this is a great opportunity to celebrate the lived experiences, struggles, history, and culture of African-Americans in the US. A college campus provides the perfect platform for learning and creating awareness about the various issues that Blacks in the US have been facing and continuing to face even today.
5 New Year’s Resolutions for College Students
I’m sure you’ve all heard your older family members and friends tell you that college was the best time of their life. “Make the best of it while you can,” is also often thrown in, part wistfully and part ominously. It’s so tempting to just roll our eyes at them, but if you think