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You are endowed with an instinct to learn an with organs to store what you learn. But you have other forces within than just instinct. You have a mind with the will to desire knowledge. If a habit is cultivated, your desire will become part of you and knowing will become an instinct.

A spiritual authority in the middle centuries wrote that one of the two highest acts of man is knowing. Knowledge is power. Knowledge increases and enables you to do. And knowledge translates you into someone who is the culmination of all or most of your potentials. Man’s destiny-your destiny-is this sublime and education is its basic and most important tool.

You recognize this type of student in all campuses and classes. He basks under the light and popularity or strength of a superior classmate. He always tags along with the superior one, usually within a group where the strong one is the leader. The clinging vine never says no and is never offended. He is parasite and does anything the boss or the group does. He is stoically patient and a push over. He has no mind of his own. he may be studying if the entire group is studying but only because he wants to belong, to continue to be part of that group. His life depends on it. The bad news for this type of student is that he or she will not be graded in the same way his or her group leader is graded. He has to be graded on his own. But his dependence on his leader is both obvious and dangerous. He always glances at the boss when he recites. yet after school, they must be parted. That will be great disaster for the parasite.

This identification-self-identification exercise is definite booster to your studies because it sharpens your awareness of who and what you are. It resets your direction and recharges as well as refocuses your mental energies.

Educators recommend the formula SO3R when reading a material. This means survey, wuestion, read, recite and review. Get photographic idea of pages first by recognizing the headings or titles. This surveying or skimming. As  you survey or skim, questions will come to mind naturally. Jot these questions down first. Then you read at your natural speed and grasp the meaning of the topic. Many students find that reciting the meaning of the topic understand and memorize better. Others find reciting unnecessary and disturbing to their memory work. Do whatever applies in your case.

If your teacher talks fast or there is a lot to jot down, grasp the meaning of each paragraph she says, summarize it mentally and  then take it down, emphasizing the main points with a highlighter or underlines. This means you must listen carefully and without distraction before you can mentally summarize.

Many students take down the teachers lecture word for word. This is, in general, not good practice. This is time consuming and tiring. It is copying, not note taking. Yet these students must do so, as they cannot as yet determine what points are important. Only the teacher can tell and she usually does so only at the end. Until then, it seems safe to write all her statements word for word to avoid mistakes and omissions when  you re read or review your notes.

Looses leaves have an advantage over spiral notebooks. They can be rearranged later. But loose leaves tend to get misplaced or fly off as you move from subject to subject or from class to class. A big notebook with big vertical columns is advisable for lecture notes. Write the dictated main points on the right and bigger column. Use the left column for references and notations to the main points on the right.

You can use symbols and abbreviations or devise your own to help you understand and memorize. Re writing notes is not possible in between classes for lack of time. You may find that time when you reach home. Or during the week ends. That is why it is better to listen with attention and then summarize the main points of a lecture instead of re-organizing them later. As you do, exert effort to memorize them.

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