1. STUDY SMART
Prepare for Midterms with less stress!

2. Know your Learning Style
Time Management
Get Organized
Study Tools
Reduce Stress
Multiple Choice Tips

3. Time Management Set goals for studying each night
#1 in Reducing Stress

4. NO Distractions Put away the cell phone Turn off iPod Turn off the TV
Close your door

5. Study in Short Burst Best to study in 15-20 minute increments
Break for 5 minutes, then come BACK
DO NOT
Look at phone
Get on the computer
Turn on the TV
Play and video game

6. Be ACTIVE, Not Passive
Just reading…or staring at your book/notes is not going to work!
Engage your mind
Active Reading
Stop every 5 lines
Can you summarize what you just read?
Can you give an example?
How does that passage relate to the
last one?

7. Think of your LEARNING STYLE
Auditory
Visual
Kinesthetic
Tape record notes
Rewrite Notes
Role Play your Notes
Listen to soft music
Write Key Points from book
Movement is KEY – try pacing while you study
Have a partner to explain the material
Create Graphic Organizers
Add motions to topics or vocabulary words to help you remember them
Draw Pictures of the material. Put it in a cartoon.

8. Get ORGANIZED! Be sure to have all your materials at hand.
Pens
Paper
Note Cards
Highlighters
Have a logical Organization of your binder
Keep all similar topics together
Use dividers/labels to easily find each unit topic

9. Study Tools Make Note Cards Use Post-It Notes
Make Vocabulary Flip Sheets (term/definition)
Make a comprehensive Study Sheet
Take Practice test in the book
Explain the notes to a friend/stuffed animal
Create mnemonics/songs/rhymes/charts/pictures
Rewrite Notes

10. Study Tools Continued
Make a study Group – go through and explain each unit
Have someone quiz you (mom/dad/sibling/friend in your study group)
Read notes into a tape recorder and listen to them
Draw it out on a White Board
Highlight your notes
Go over old test and quizes

11. Reduce STRESS Stress reduction may include:
Dance, walking, yoga, meditation
These things work because they engage different parts of the brain and use focus and breathing to moderate the effects of stress on the body.
Sports, visual arts, instrumental music
Talking to a friend, reading, writing, in a journal, may also help.
STOP PROCRASTINATING!

12. Stress Reduction is NOT…
Watching TV
Playing computer games
Checking
Face booking

13. DON’T Cram Start Early With a plan
Set goals (short term and long term)
Reward Yourself
Review EACH NIGHT!
Repetition is Key!

14. Multiple Choice Question Tips
Read the WHOLE question!
Read ALL answer choices
Circle any words in a question that you don’t know – then use context clues to help you.
Eliminate Choice you know are wrong A B C D

15. Multiple Choice Question Tips
Cover the answer choices – read the question and try to answer
Read the question and fill in with each answer choice – which one sounds right?
Give each answer the True/False test
Look alike options – find the one answer that is different from the others.

16. Multiple Choice Question Tips
Double Negatives
Except, NOT – check off the positive statements to see what is left.
Echo Options – if two options are opposites –likely one of them is the correct answer
If two answers seem correct – compare them for differences
Use cues from other questions to help

17. Multiple Choice Question Tips
Answer easy questions first and come back to harder ones – remember that they have the same point value!
Always guess when there is no penalty for a wrong answer.
Remember to find the BEST answer
Only change your first choice if you find clues in another question or you are ABSOLUTLY sure.

18. STUDY SMART