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Introduction
Your study habits play a crucial role in determining your success in school. If your study habits are good, you should have little trouble getting good grades in your classes. But if you have poor study habits, you will be constantly struggling through your schoolwork. "Study Skills" prestnts proper study habits and explains how to organize and make the most of your study time.
The first section, "Why You Should Study," stresses the importance of studying, and it helps you assess your current study habits. The next two sections teach you how to set up a study area and how to make a study schedule and stick to it.
Section IV is entitled "Study Aids," and it describes many different items in your home and at school that can be helpful when you are studying. The fifth section, "The Best Way to Study," explains how to make outlines, underline improtant material, and take notes. It also explains how to use the SQ3R study method, and it gives special methods of study for major subject areas. The final section tells you who to turn to for special help with your study problems.
The further you go in your educational career, the more studying you will be required to do. Use this volume to help you develop the study habits you need in order to succeed now and in the future.
Your study habits play a crucial role in determining your success in school. If your study habits are good, you should have little trouble getting good grades in your classes. But if you have poor study habits, you will be constantly struggling through your schoolwork. "Study Skills" prestnts proper study habits and explains how to organize and make the most of your study time.
The first section, "Why You Should Study," stresses the importance of studying, and it helps you assess your current study habits. The next two sections teach you how to set up a study area and how to make a study schedule and stick to it.
Section IV is entitled "Study Aids," and it describes many different items in your home and at school that can be helpful when you are studying. The fifth section, "The Best Way to Study," explains how to make outlines, underline improtant material, and take notes. It also explains how to use the SQ3R study method, and it gives special methods of study for major subject areas. The final section tells you who to turn to for special help with your study problems.
The further you go in your educational career, the more studying you will be required to do. Use this volume to help you develop the study habits you need in order to succeed now and in the future.
