{"id":2744,"date":"2010-09-02T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2010-09-02T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T16:38:09","slug":"get-better-grades-by-understanding-how-your-brain-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/09\/02\/get-better-grades-by-understanding-how-your-brain-works","title":{"rendered":"Get Better Grades By Understanding How Your Brain Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Studying<\/a>One of my favorite blogs is the British Psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Soci\u00adety\u2019s Research Digest<\/a>. It sum\u00adma\u00adrizes cur\u00adrent research in a way inter\u00adest\u00ading to non-aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics. I eat that kind of stuff up.<\/p>\n

Their most recent post is a real win\u00adner for col\u00adlege stu\u00addents: 9 Evi\u00addence-Based Study Tips<\/a>. You\u2019ll receive a lot of advice in col\u00adlege \u2014 but these prin\u00adci\u00adples actu\u00adal\u00adly have exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal sup\u00adport.<\/p>\n

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  1. Adopt a growth mind\u00adset: believe that your brain is capa\u00adble of get\u00adting smarter. You\u2019re not stuck where you are.<\/li>\n
  2. Sleep well: inter\u00adnal\u00adize that all-nighters hurt more than they help.<\/li>\n
  3. For\u00adgive your\u00adself for pro\u00adcras\u00adti\u00adnat\u00ading: as a min\u00adis\u00adter, I was quite tak\u00aden by this one. It\u2019s a beau\u00adti\u00adful illus\u00adtra\u00adtion of a more gen\u00ader\u00adal les\u00adson on grace as the pri\u00adma\u00adry cat\u00ada\u00adlyst for growth in life.<\/li>\n
  4. Test your\u00adself: don\u2019t just review the mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal \u2014 turn it into a quiz.<\/li>\n
  5. Pace your stud\u00adies: review the mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal once 20% of the time elaps\u00ades between the day you first learned it and the day of the test. Com\u00adbin\u00ading this with the pre\u00advi\u00adous tip will rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adize your study life.<\/li>\n
  6. Vivid exam\u00adples may not always work best. This is more of a tip for teach\u00aders, so here\u2019s the stu\u00addent ver\u00adsion: don\u2019t assume that the charis\u00admat\u00adic teacher will help you under\u00adstand bet\u00adter sim\u00adply because they enter\u00adtain you more. Be sus\u00adpi\u00adcious of vivid illus\u00adtra\u00adtions because they can make it hard\u00ader to learn the abstract prin\u00adci\u00adples you must mas\u00adter.<\/li>\n
  7. Take naps: lie down and rest for 10\u201330 min\u00adutes. It will help more than you think.<\/li>\n
  8. Get hand\u00adouts pri\u00ador to the lec\u00adture: the evi\u00addence for this one seemed weak to me. Read it and judge for your\u00adself.<\/li>\n
  9. Believe in your\u00adself: con\u00adfi\u00addence mat\u00adters. Whether you think you can or think you can\u2019t, you\u2019re prob\u00ada\u00adbly right.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Each tip has a brief para\u00adgraph explain\u00ading the prin\u00adci\u00adple in more detail includ\u00ading links to the research upon which it is based. Go read it now<\/a>!<\/p>\n

    You\u2019re wel\u00adcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of my favorite blogs is the British Psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Soci\u00adety\u2019s Research Digest. It sum\u00adma\u00adrizes cur\u00adrent research in a way inter\u00adest\u00ading to non-aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics. I eat that kind of stuff up. Their most recent post is a real win\u00adner for col\u00adlege stu\u00addents: 9 Evi\u00ad\u00addence-Based Study Tips. You\u2019ll receive a lot of advice in col\u00adlege \u2014 but these \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cGet Bet\u00adter Grades By Under\u00adstand\u00ading How Your Brain Works\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}