My niece having started college this year, I was somewhat surprised to see how poorly students were prepared for this in school, with close to nothing on essential questions such as:<\/p>\n
It was no better when I was a student myself, some 25-30 years ago. But one\u2019d have thought things were better nowadays, with the ever growing importance of qualification, and all the studies being made on, well, studying and being a student.<\/p>\n
Recently, I stumbled on Dr. Stephen Chew\u2019s \u201cHow to Study\u201d series of videos to help students \u201cdevelop a proper mindset to become an effective learner<\/em>\u201d which is the academic way of saying \u201cto help students getting good at it, without working themselves to death and even, why not, enjoying it.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The fourth video, \u201cPutting the Principles for Optimizing Learning into Practice<\/em>\u201d, as its title suggests, is the most practical of the series. <\/p>\n Some of them are covering basic stuff, while other, Dr. Stephen Chew being a professor of psychology, are dealing with more psychological matter, and not all questions are covered. But they\u2019re all worth watching as they\u2019ll give any student sound foundations, even if one is to follow only some of the advice given\u2014plus, they\u2019re short videos: there\u2019s no excuse to skip any \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n