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HOW TO LEARN THE ART OF
STUDYING SMART?
By Urvi Shah
example, you search ‘ways to get
motivated to study ’on Google and
YouTube, but what is the result? Do
we start study after watching those
videos? Yes, I agree we feel
motivated, energetic, and confident
but no steps are taken and we don't
get any result. It can be explained by a
simple example, motivation can help
you to wake up in the morning but
you need discipline and self-control to
be out of bed. Work hard towards
This is the most common question
increasing discipline and self-control.
students all over the world face. We Secondly, it is a fact that very few
all study but the efforts we put in students make 'real' notes; in fact,
don't equalize with results obtained. they can be counted on fingers. What
Most of the students end up mugging are ‘real’ notes? Notes and mind maps
things rather than understanding are something that can help students
them. In school, we are taught what to understand the topic and
to study but not how to study. In understand its concepts and they can
today's world, we have many brain be used instead of reading the whole
trainers who have found various ways chapter. Many students just copy the
to study smart but not all students whole book in making notes.
have access to these ideas.
How to make notes?
What does study smart mean?
Many people advise us to study Notes must be one-fourth of the
pages of chapter; this ensures we are
smartly but no one tells how to do it.
not copying the whole chapter. Notes
In today's world, hard work has little
should only include keywords and
value compared to smart work, the
concepts should be written in the way
rag pickers or street workers do hard
work working throughout the day, but we understand. The use of images,
what’s the result? Studying smart symbols, emoticons is another way to
make notes attractive. I suggest using
requires various steps. The first is
colourful pages and pens as it will
discipline and self-control. Let me
encourage us to read them. The
explain its importance by giving an
simple logic behind this is one likes to
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