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HOW TO LEARN THE ART OF
STUDYING SMART?
By Urvi Shah
explain its importance by giving an
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?
Notes must be one-fourth of the
Many people advise us to study
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
value compared to smart work, the should only include keywords and
rag pickers or street workers do hard concepts should be written in the way
work working throughout the day, but we understand. The use of images,
symbols, emoticons is another way to
what’s the result? Studying smart
make notes attractive. I suggest using
requires various steps. The first is
discipline and self-control. Let me colourful pages and pens as it will
encourage us to read them. The
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