Principle-1: Believe In Yourself
Your brain is the most complex piece of bioengineering in the known universe. Every brain has genius capacity even yours. It takes time, effort and guided study to get access to this potential, but it is possible for anyone to do if he or she wants to use it badly enough.
Principle -2: Prepare
The difference between mediocre performance and excellent grades can often be the quality of your preparation. Preparing your study environment, your attitude and your focus attitude and your focus will have an amazingly positive impact on the effectiveness of your learning activity.
Principle -3: Organize yourself and your work.
Organize yourself and organize your work. Always have a plan for your study. Write out that plan. Review your plan constantly and revise it constantly.
Principle- 4: Spend time on what matters.
Set priorities and make sure you are spending time on tasks that will help you accomplish the goals that are those priorities. The manner in which you get there is the essence of planning.
Principle-5: Discipline yourself.
There is no substitute for self-control and discipline. The best study techniques, tricks and hints are useless if you have no will-power to put them into practice. It helps your discipline if you have goals, an organized plan of action and a strong belief in yourself, but you must also have the desire to keep at it when the going isn’t easy. This is how the study techniques become second nature and that’s when your abilities really begin to take off.
Principle-6: Be persistent
Just keep on keeping on. Persistence is more important than talent, genius or luck, all those will be useless without Persistence, but Persistence can bring success without them.
Principle-7: Divide and conquer
The concept of “divide and conquer” is central to successfully completing any large study task such as a term paper, preparing for final examinations or reading a thick textbook. Understanding how it works will have a wonderful effect on your procrastination problems.
Simply, you analyze the task, divide it into smaller separate tasks and make a written list of all the smaller tasks. The final step is to put the tasks in order of priority.
Principle-8: Become an information filter.
The skill of information is particularly valuable for college and university students. To survive and thrive in the midst of a university course load that can be overwhelming, you must become an information filter. It is not unusual for new students to panic when they first encounter the enormous amount of material to be read. When you practice good reading and note-making techniques, you becoming an information filter, you are leading to distinguish between what is important to remember and what is not.
Principle-9: Practice output as well as input.
To Practice output as well as input, it is helpful to think of the brain as a computer. The information you study is data input, the material is processed by the brain and you are required to create output in the form of lab reports, essays and exam answers. Unfortunately, our biological computers create output of varying levels of quality. It is not processed in the uniform, easily recallable units that get stored in a silicon chip.
To get the most out of the data, you must active4ly turn it into information that is useful. You must process it properly and practice output.
Principle-10: Do not fear mistakes.
Mistakes are the best teachers. Don’t be afraid to try something new just because you don’t think you will get it right the first time. Without mistakes we would not have any information about how to do better the next time. Each time you identify a mistake, you’ve learned something about your task and your brain remembers. Mistakes help you eliminate wrong ways and guide you to the right way. With fewer mistakes you also have fewer chances of finding the right way to new skills, ideas and feelings.
Principle-11: Use al l your intelligences to create study tools.
As you develop your own tool box of study skills, make a conscious effort to develop tools that make use of as many different intelligences (linguistic, mathematical/logical, musical, visual/ spatial, physical, interpersonal, intrapersonal) as possible. Combine as many as you can as often as you can.
Principle-12: Be active.
All the best human data processing and output practice using many of your intelligences have one thing in common. They require that you be active with the material. You cannot be a passive reader or listener and expect to get much out of text books or lectures.
This principle of being active rather passive extends to all aspects of studying, especially preparing for exams. Being active is the only way you can properly process information and practice output.
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