The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need: Simple tips, tricks and techniques to help you ace your studies and pass your exams!

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In Getting Things Done, David Allen recommends recording your monthly obligations using a calendar rather than a written list. A calendar format allows you to easily add new obligations without having to reconfigure your list every time something new crops up, making staying organized easier. Finally, the key to boosting learning with flashcards is to study them repeatedly over time. For example, if you have a quiz in one month’s time, rather than waiting until the week before the exam and studying for 30 minutes every day, make your flashcards and start studying as soon as you find out about the exam. Still, most of the self-help books did indeed help me. And surely the writer of this book was being realistic. That's why I am gonna give it 5 stars if good things happen in the future!

What happens next is a panic-induced mayhem of highlighting everything in the textbook (without even questioning if it’s actually helpful). But I’m here to help you change this! Another way to encourage deep engagement is to use as many symbols as possible on your cards in place of words and phrases. Using symbols rather than words requires you to recall more information than what’s explicitly written on the card. For example, imagine you want to remember that the Rashidun Caliphate was the first caliphate and lasted the shortest amount of time, the Umayyad was second and lasted longer than the Rashidun, and the Abbasid was the last and lasted the longest. You could write “Rashidun < Umayyad < Abbasid.” And although I did not go to a UK high school and I had a very different focus during that time of my life, I think younger-Pia would have liked this book a lot!As a fellow student now at university, I definitely don't have a PhD in Exam Etiquette but this is the book younger me needed. All I wanted was one place that had a variety of tried-and-tested methods with reassurance from someone who had recently been through the education system. The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need is just that, and I have collected the best techniques and tools I wish I'd known earlier to help you get through your studies and smash your exams! As a general rule, we tend to underestimate tasks and overvalue our abilities. Therefore, we think things are going to take less than they do. Bowler's recommendation for prioritizing tasks closely aligns with a popular prioritization method that’s dominated the self-help and productivity genre for the past few decades: the Urgent/Important Principle. Once you know the priority levels of your tasks, schedule a time to complete them. Bowler recommends scheduling tasks week by week for up to a month in advance. You should revisit your schedule at the beginning of each week to make a daily and hourly schedule.

Write down what your life will look like in five years if you choose a different, but realistic alternative path.I realized that life is not just about what you work as or how heavy your paycheque is. I learned that you will never just be defined by your job. Work is a role you play to survive, contribute to the world and hopefully bring fulfillment to your life, but it is not everything."

Understand: This begins in the classroom. Reading, using a study guide, watching videos, and asking questions. Remember that you shouldn’t take down notes if you don’t understand the content. To start a new habit attach the desired habit to an existing one, make it a habit, and give it a cue. Habits are formed through repetition and over time. How has the education system got away with expecting students to take exams to determine their future life prospects without ever actively teaching you how to study? We’re given information. We’re given textbooks. We’re even taught each lesson in that textbook. But perhaps the most essential process – that of distilling, learning and memorising the content – is left up to you. Let me tell you, it took me a long time to realise that highlighting my biology textbook wasn’t going to get me an A*... However, tasks with impending deadlines might not always take the highest priority. For example, imagine that you have two upcoming obligations: two homework assignments due in five days, and a history exam next month on topics that you don’t yet understand fully. While the homework is due sooner, you’ll need a long time to fully master the exam content. When I bought the book I was very exited. I just started to plan my homework and assignments and stuff with notion. You see I was really trying to do better. And this book was going to help me further.

While making your weekly schedule, review all your future tasks and obligations to determine whether there are any you can unexpectedly get done in the upcoming week or make immediate progress on.

I have the incredible honor to know Jade in person as a classmate in uni. The fact that one of us students wrote a book is really crazy, and I am proud and inspired beyond words. The Urgent/Important Principle follows the same general outline as Bowler’s recommendation—to consider your level of understanding (importance) and the deadline (urgency) when prioritizing tasks. However, Bowler’s method doesn’t mention the possibility of avoiding tasks entirely if they’re deemed unimportant and not urgent. This is likely because Bowler sees all tasks that appear on your list—school requirements, extracurriculars, and social events—as important, and thus worth completing at some point. Step #4: Schedule Your Tasks The river’s force causes the sides of the river to change shape. The higher the force, the more it changes shape. On the side with less force, there is more sediment. The book ends up feeling holistic and a complete study guide complete, which does the title justice. I find it easy and fun to read and finished it in two evening sittings. When you’ve written everything you can remember, compare your blurted knowledge to an official textbook, mark scheme or notes. Suddenly, you’ve got evidential proof of what you do and don’t know.

The second of Kossly’s maxims is “make and use associations”. Revising means connecting what you’re learning to previous knowledge. In other words, revising is about making associations and using them. You can’t expect to learn a brand-new concept with no foundational knowledge to relate it to. SAAD: Desirable Difficulty Once you have structure to learning process it becomes more effective and this book is a great start for building it. This book changed my perspective towards the exams. You will fall in love with the learning after you read this book. To combat perfectionism, take into account the Pareto principle (sometimes called the 80/20 rule). In this context, the principle says that 80% of your knowledge and grades come from 20% of the total time you spend revising. Identify the most meaningful revision elements and prioritize them. Define what enough is so that you can start focusing on the process rather than the outcome. Chapter 10: Mental Health