Learning Tips for Student

Effective learning tips

No question: you need time to learn. We are aware that this is particularly difficult for you in your everyday care routine. Therefore we want to give you some tips on how you can learn as effectively as possible!

Understanding, keeping and correctly applying new learning material does not happen overnight.

Here we want to give you some tips for learning.

• Attention in class

Actually logical and easy to implement:

I no longer have to rework everything that I heard, understood and practiced in class. This also shortens the preparation time for the next school assignment. So keep your eyes and ears open during class and ask questions if you don't understand something.

• Capture long texts quickly

As a pupil, you often have to deal with longer texts: for example for a presentation, for a summary or the like. There are a few tricks on how to get to the most important information quickly in longer texts:

• Selective reading

You will quickly scan a long text without reading it word for word. Rather, you quickly search the text for important keywords - you “scan” it with your eyes. You can write down the most important keywords. So you get a first impression of what the text is about.

• Underline and highlight

The most important keywords in the text are underlined or highlighted with a light pen. This gives the text a very personal structure and does not appear as long.

• Pick out and summarize

Long texts are not for memorizing, but for working with them. It is therefore advisable to write out the most important statements in the text. It is best if you formulate and summarize the summarized statements in your own words. Depending on your preference or the further use of the text, you summarize the key messages for learning on a piece of paper. Or you can write them down on index cards with which you can learn well later.

The advantage: So you shorten the long text to the essentials. Through your own summaries, you have already dealt intensively with the content and completed an important learning step.

• Use idle time for learning

How often do you stand at the bus stop and wait for the bus or the subway? Or you sit with the doctor and wait for your turn You can use such times very well to learn vocabulary or to repeat the biology.

The prerequisite for this is, of course, that you have your learning material with you. Small-format index cards are suitable for this. The vocabulary or technical term comes on the front. On the back the translation or explanation. The following also applies here: creating the index cards is not a superfluous task, but an important learning step.

Learn with concentration

Sitting at a desk for two hours is not learning. Those who concentrate exactly on what they are doing, e.g. Doing homework or studying is quicker than someone who constantly looks at the cell phone, listens to music and dreams. If you want to finish your school assignments quickly, the best thing to do is to agree a fixed time schedule with yourself: “Now I will complete the math exercises for half an hour, then I will write my German essay for half an hour and at the end I will learn 15 more minutes of Latin vocabulary ”. During the agreed time, you should then concentrate and work without distraction. If that works well, you can treat yourself to a short break between the individual work packages as a reward.

•  Learn pictorially

Some people learn more easily and therefore faster with pictorial material and visualizations. This means that it is much easier to keep learning content in the form of images or graphics, rather than as text. Perhaps it is similar to you, then e.g. the so-called Mindmap method: on a large sheet of paper, a topic is recorded figuratively and in a logical structure. Arrows, connecting lines and keywords clearly represent the learning material.

Another option is the learning poster. Here too, the content to be learned is written on a poster in as concise a form as possible. Regardless of whether vocabulary, grammar rules, certain calculation methods, etc. Important here: The contents of the learning poster are summarized and written as large as possible on a poster. Images, highlights, symbols, etc. can now illustrate the content. The learning poster comes to a place where you often see it: over the desk or on the door of the room. This way, you can memorize content practically on the side. However, you also have to look at it.