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Learning and Study Skills

• For Mr. Kimballs Chemistry, Physical Science
  Classes and Math Classes

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Organizing Your Study

• Prioritize your time.
• Read chapter, annotating key words and phrases.
• Outline main points using section headings and
  summary.
• Familiarize yourself with pictures and tables
  (along with captions).
• Study Power Points thoroughly-print out for notes
  and to use for lecture quizzes.
• Work through example problems and do practice and
  further practiced problems.
• Do homework.
• Learn concepts well enough so that if I ask a
  similar question on a test in a different way,
  you can still get the answer. Dont just
  memorize steps.

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Learning Skills

• Take responsibility for your education.
• Have confidence in what you know and can do.
• Do not procrastinate study.
• Learn to listen and read precisely.
• Make and use practice tests to prepare for tests.
• Persistence. Never give up.
• Learn to recognize and utilize patterns.
• Learn to draw pictures and diagrams to aid in
  communication and understanding.
• Learn to think sequentially or in steps.
• Do neat work.
• Learn to study and work in groups.
• Try something new.
• Get help if you need it.

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Take Responsibility!

• Your education is what you make of it. You make
  the world you live in. What type of world do you
  want? Whatever the answer, only you can make it.
  Set goals of what you want to know and go and
  find it. Dont blame others for things that
  happen in your life because it is your life of
  your making. Make it the best!

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Confidence
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• Learn to have confidence in yourself and what you
  know.
• If you make a mistake, admit it, learn from it,
  correct it and move on.
• Realize that if you miss one small part of a
  problem there is still part of the problem you
  still understand.
• Come to class mentally prepared.

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You can do anything!!!
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Prcrastinationshortcuts are longcuts. . .
longcuts are shortcuts

• If the pulley assembly is available pull both
  ropes and see which is easiest. Both gallon jugs
  have the same water in them. One is easier to
  raise than the other.
• This is because, due to the pulley system, you
  pull more rope with one than the other. The
  force needed to lift the jugs is distributed over
  a longer distance that you pull the rope.

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• The same is true with studying.
• If you distribute your efforts and study over
  more time, the learning will be easier and more
  thorough.
• If you try to do too much in too little of time,
  studying and learning will become as heavy as the
  jug that was hard to lift. You will burn out,
  overload, and probably not succeed in the class.

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• Make up your mind now to study ahead of time.
  It is like waiting too long to pull the ripcord
  when parachuting. Waiting two weeks may be too
  late
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  related
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• Or waiting until you are halfway across a stream
  to learn to swim.

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• Set aside time every day to study. Read the
  chapter carefully. Take and review your notes.
  Practice the problems in the chapter. Try the
  homework. Try to figure out as much as you can
  yourself.
• Dont rely on the help of others too much or you
  will grow weak and unable to solve problems
  yourself.
• Start now preparing for the final.

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Dont drown!!!
Or hit the ground!!!
Just Do It !!!!!!
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Precise Listening and ReadingMaking Mountains
out of Molehills

• Learn to listen to exactly what is being said and
  read exactly what is written.
• Students often read into things that which is
  just are not there.
• Most concepts are simple but are made difficult
  by plugged communication filters or inability to
  listen or read with precision.

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Making Moutains out of Mole Hills

• Do not read into what is written or said by the
  instructor things that just arent there.
• Listen and read with precision!

What is real.
What you think is real!
What you think the problem is!
Real Problem
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Listen/read exactly and hit the mark of
understanding!!!
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Practice

• Nothing can be mastered without practice
• Do all examples in each chapter and practice
  going through the given solution procedures.
• Try problems with the answers at the end of the
  chapter or book and see if you get the right
  answer.
• Practice 5-10 problems covering every concept
  until you have mastered the concept or technique.

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Practice Tests

• Find a list of problems that cover the material
  of the test and that have answers.
• Work the problems like you are taking a test
  without looking up the answers.
• Grade and correct your test and look up how to
  find the answers.
• Repeat the test doing the only the ones you
  missed.
• Repeat the process until you have correctly
  worked all of the problems

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PersistenceThe wind beneath your wings.

• A successful person is one that gets up one more
  time than they fall down.
• Complete the class as much as possible if you
  think you may have to repeat it. The more you
  learn now the better you will do second time
  around.
• "Become a Possibilitarian. No matter how dark
  things seem to be or actually are, raise your
  sights and see possibilitiesalways see them, for
  they're always there." Norman Vincent Peale

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Patterns

• Look for and memorize patterns.
• Find a problem and solve it.
• Then put in new numbers and see how the answer is
  affected.
• Try changing one small part of the problem or
  rearrange the problem with new numbers until you
  understand all perspectives and aspects of the
  problem.

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Look for patterns that repeat over and over
again.
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Pictures

• Pictures and diagrams help us understand and
  communicate with ourselves and others.
• You do not need to be an artist.
• Visual and Audio communication is more effective
  than audio communication alone.
• Write out all numbers and formulas and it will be
  easier to put the numbers in the correct place in
  the formulas.

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Sequential Thinking

• Learn to organize your study and thinking into
  sequential steps.
• Read one sentence at a time until you understand
  it. Then, and only then, go on to the next
  sentence.
• Break problems down into steps and look at and do
  only one step at a time.

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• Think in steps, like a staircase
• Look for the first step
• Link each step to the next using the question as
  a guide to end on

Answer to Question
First Step (generally not a conversion factor)
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Neat Work

• Write out all steps neatly with units attached to
  all numbers.
• Neat and orderly work reflects an organized and
  intelligent mind.
• Neat work makes checking your work easier.
• Again shortcuts are longcuts and longcuts are
  shortcuts.

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Groups

• Most work in the real world is done in groups.
• When you can explain a concept or teach another
  how to do a problem you are approaching
  understanding.
• Two heads are always better than one.
• Help your friend and he or she will help you.

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Try Something NEW!!

• You never learn anything until you try something
  new.
• Dont try something foolish.
• Look for traits in others or their activities
  that you admire and try them on yourself.

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Getting Help
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• Get help if you need it.
• The best source is the instructor. Attend study
  sessions. Arrange to meet with the instructor
  during office hours.
• Work with others. Two heads are better than one.
• Do not rely too much on others. If you do you,
  will grow weak and not learn how to solve
  problems yourself.