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Study Skills Study & Thinking Skills

CHRECHELLE C. SAN JUAN

Acquiring that signify with the correct meaning. Analyzing that signify for the point of view of the author. Applying that signify to what have you learns from reading to real life situation.

A good reader :

Study Skills • Is an Art and an all out effort at learning which involves a

number of things from getting to class on time and answering examinations effectively.

• Studying perhaps is keeping notes on class work and reading.

Note-taking

It involves activities that require mental alertness, concentration, reflection and analysis.

Is writing in condensed form the content of a chapter or a whole book or classroom, lectures or speeches.

It also requires the ability to select and organize ideas or concepts to taken down.

The Six R Principles of Note-taking

Record Refers to writing down meaningful ideas and facts in a lecture


Reduce Refers to summarizing notes taken down from the lecture.

Be brief and consider only notes that are essential.


Recite Refers to reducing the main idea and facts to form suitable statements for recitations.

Examples:

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Reflect Refers to thinking of ideas that make your notes more meaningful to you. Organize your notes and arrange

them logically. Be sure that they reflect the pattern of thought of the author or the speaker.


Review Refers to reciting of notes frequently either nightly or several times during the week.

Reviewing will aid you more complete comprehension and retention of information than cramming the day before the test.


Recapitulate

Refers to summarizing of what have been taken down, picking out keywords and concepts and providing clues to details describes in the notes. It should be a word for word rewriting.

Preserve notes in loose-leaf Advisable to write your notes in

ink than in pencil.

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