Edu-Link guides students to avoid ineffective studying habits and develop efficient strategies that will increase their learning outcomes and allow them to excel in high-school tests.
Many students use time-consuming learning techniques that give the illusion of mastery. These techniques help them become familiar with ideas and information in the test preparation but forget it a week later because their learning techniques never led to long-term learning.
Such ineffective techniques include:
- Studying for extended periods.
- Studying a single subject for an extended period and repeating phrases over and over to memorize them.
- Reviewing one topic repeatedly before moving on to another.
- Reading and rereading a text to memorize.
On the other hand, at Edu-Link, students will have access to techniques that help students to increase sustainable learning and retention and lead to long-term mastery.
Such efficient techniques include:
- Pre-test
A strategy that helps students achieve better scores by practicing answering similar test questions previously, saving study time.
- Spaced practice
A strategy that helps students to space out study sessions, focusing on a topic for a short period on different days to improve retention and recall, better than memorizing.
- Self-quizzing
A strategy that helps students test their knowledge related to specific topics as a form of active retrieval practice. This technique encourages students to make test questions for themselves as they learn a new concept, thinking about the types of questions you might ask on a quiz or test.
- Paraphrasing and reflecting
A strategy that helps students retain information by relating what is being learned to prior knowledge, thinking about how they would explain the content to a 5-year-old, and reflecting on and asking questions about the content.