Study SkillsStudy SkillsStudy SkillsStudy Skills

Preparing for TestsPreparing for Tests

Study What You Don’t Know

• Most students spend an inordinate amount of time “just looking through notes.”

• Instead create a list of what you need to know and remove things as you study.

Study ListPeople Places Events Terms Time General

Key people

Important places, geography

Wars, movements of people, significant events

Key terms Time periods, key dates, ages or eras

Anything that does not meet the previous criteria

Study List Use

• The columns can be renamed to fit the course such as biology, foreign languages, etc.

People Places Events Terms Time GeneralRamses IIAkhenaton Hatshepsut Hyksos

ThebesNile River

Hyksos invasion

Pharaohhieroglyphics

Old KingdomMiddle KingdomNew Kingdom

Mysteries of the pyramids

Study Management

• Once you have made your chart, look at it and try to eliminate anything you already know by drawing a pencil line through it.

• Then take each column and read around what you don’t know.

• Put it away and work on something else.• Come back to the chart and see what you can

eliminate.• The day of the test, pull out the chart and

highlight what you know- this should narrow down your list so that you are just refreshing on a few items.

Other Styles• Flash cards • Instead of using a matrix

(columns), use webs and Venn diagrams.

Webs and Venn Diagrams

element element

element

Topic